About Butchery
From ModrinthAn immersive way of harvesting mobs
🔪 What is Butchery?
Butchery is a mod that makes harvesting mobs and animals much much more immersive and fun. Whilst simply killing mobs is still an option with this mod installed, you have the added option of kill a mob with the new Butcher's Knife. Killing a mob with the butchers knife will cause the mobs corpse to drop instead of their original loot (with the exception of sheep, they drop their corpse in addition to their wool). Once you've aquired their corpses you're free to start the butchering process.
🥩 Features
Config file to customise the mod to your specific needs Kill mobs with the new butchers knife to obtain their corpse (You can also use the Butcher enchant or enable any tool/weapon to obtain corpses in the config. Hang corpses from hooks to drain their blood and begin the butchering process. Skin corpses - Hang them on skin racks, dampen and cover in salt to obtain leather. Cut up corpses hanging or on the butchers table to obtain different selections of meat (Farmers Delight food and Vanilla foods can be enabled as an alternative in the config) Place corpses on the rotisserie and a campfire underneath to cook the meat Fill a mincer with beef or lamb to obtain the minced version Use the hammer to break open turtle shells Various different decoration blocks including barrel of cod/salmon, jar, brain in a jar, singing salmon, head mounts, barrel of bones and more Functional blocks such as butchers display (storage for food), spike trap (made from elder guardian drop damages and applies mining fatigue on contact)
🐖 Currently Included Mobs & Bosses
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🦬 Addons
Alex's Mobs - https://modrinth.com/mod/butchery-alexs-mobs-addon
🤩 Support Me
Creating this mod is taking me a lot of time and effort, if you'd like to support me and supply me with tasty italian fuel to continue with this mod and my others you can buy me a pizza by clicking the link below! https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=YQU6QGQ5N9ALW
📜 Common Questions
Q: Will you port to a version BELOW 1.20.1? A: No, sorry this is not possible for me to do. Butchery will only ever update to newer versions of Forge.
Q: Fabric? A: No, sorry.
Q: Can I request a compatibility? A: Sure, head over to the discord and make a thread with your suggestion.
Q: How do I add mobs to the tag files so that they drop carcasses? A: Download the butchery datapack and follow the guide in the description. You can download it here: https://legacy.curseforge.com/minecraft/data-packs/butchery-add-mobs-datapack
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 7 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.1.2.
Loaders
Runs on Forge and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Butchery on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Forge, NeoForge
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 5.3.1, released 2026-10-09
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| NeoForge | 1.21.1 to 26.1.2 (4 versions) | 26.1.2 |
| Forge | 1.20.1 | 1.20.1 |
From 13 recorded builds of Butchery.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.3.1 | 2026-10-09 | 1.21.8 | NeoForge |
| 5.3.1 | 2026-10-09 | 1.21.4 | NeoForge |
| 5.3.1 | 2026-10-09 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 5.3.1 | 2026-10-09 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 5.3 | 2026-10-07 | 1.21.8 | NeoForge |
| 5.3 | 2026-10-07 | 1.21.4 | NeoForge |
Run Butchery on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogCreatures & NPCs
Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Butchery as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- ForgeNeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.1.2 and 6 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-10Open ↗
- ✓AuthorMC_jmods, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree












