Gourmet Life — A Culinary Expansion for ItemsAdder

Grow, gather, and cook your way through a rich food ecosystem designed for roleplay and survival servers.


What is Gourmet Life?
Gourmet Life is a feature-rich farming and cooking pack built specifically for ItemsAdder. It expands the vanilla loop with a wide variety of crops, ingredients, and meals—turning everyday survival into a flavorful progression path that rewards organization, trading, and community play.

Key Features

• Expanded Agriculture: Cultivate a diverse set of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and specialty plants—each with unique recipe roles.
• Deep Cooking System: Dozens of snacks, meals, and beverages with tiered value for hunger, saturation, and progression.
• Immersive Assets: Hand-crafted ItemsAdder items, icons, and models that feel natural in survival and roleplay settings.
• Server-Friendly Design: Balanced acquisition, intuitive recipes, and configurable options to fit your economy.
• Playstyle Synergy: Farmers, chefs, traders, and explorers all gain meaningful roles in your world.

Gameplay Loop

1. Grow: Plant and harvest varied crops to stock your pantry.
2. Gather: Forage rare ingredients and trade with other players to complete sets.
3. Create: Craft meals from simple bites to gourmet dishes using structured, discoverable recipes.
4. Thrive: Sell high-value foods, supply towns, and fuel long adventures with efficient nutrition.

Perfect For

• Survival servers seeking meaningful mid–late game progression.
• Roleplay communities that want professions like farmer, chef, or merchant.
• Economy servers looking to add demand for ingredients and cooked goods.
• Builders who love decorating farms, markets, and kitchens with thematic items.

Highlights

• Balanced crop acquisition and growth pacing.
• Clear recipe progression with thoughtful ingredient chains.
• Nutrition that rewards planning without overwhelming newcomers.
• Fully integrated with ItemsAdder categories, namespaces, and resource packs.
• Configurable via ItemsAdder files to match your server’s difficulty and economy.

Requirements

• Server: Spigot/Paper or compatible fork.
• Plugin: ItemsAdder (latest stable recommended).
• Resource Pack: Ensure ItemsAdder resource delivery is enabled for all players.

Installation

1. Download the configs, click here to download
2. Please read the installation process on the wiki, click here to go

Configuration & Balance
Every server is unique. Gourmet Life exposes item stats, recipe costs, and acquisition rates through ItemsAdder configs, allowing you to tailor the experience. Adjust rarity, yields, and sell prices to fit your economy and progression curve.


Performance Notes

• Recipes and items are optimized for ItemsAdder’s loading pipeline.
• Crop variety is designed to scale for medium–large communities.
• For best results, keep your server and ItemsAdder up to date and monitor startup logs after updates.

Why Your Players Will Love It
Gourmet Life turns food into storytelling: cafés that stock seasonal pastries, bustling markets for rare herbs, and guild kitchens supplying expeditions. Farming, cooking, and trading become social pillars—not just chores.

If your community enjoys purposeful progression and cozy worldbuilding, this pack will feel right at home.