Bacon Wrapped Tools: The Tastiest Way to Mine in Minecraft
Minecraft survival always keeps you on your toes — one moment you are deep in a cave gathering diamonds, and the next your hunger bar is empty, forcing a frantic sprint back to base. What if your tools could double as emergency snacks? The Bacon Wrapped Tools mod brings a delightfully absurd yet practical twist to vanilla gameplay by letting you wrap cooked bacon around your favorite gear and eat it on the go. No more abandoning a mining expedition just because you forgot to pack food.
What Is the Bacon Wrapped Tools Mod?
This lightweight Forge mod for Minecraft 1.12 adds edible versions of the default tool set: shovels, axes, pickaxes, hoes, and swords. Each one can be crafted with a piece of cooked bacon, turning it into a portable meal that restores hunger while sacrificing a bit of durability. The concept is simple, hilarious, and surprisingly useful for long adventures where inventory space is precious. It fits perfectly into vanilla-style playthroughs and modpacks alike, giving you one less thing to worry about when you are miles from your farm.
Bacon from the Trees: Obtaining Raw Bacon
The mod introduces a new food item — raw bacon — that you won’t find in any chest or mob drop. Instead, you gather it by breaking tree leaves. Yes, bacon literally grows on trees in this mod. The drop rate is generous enough that a quick session of leaf clearing with shears or even your bare hands will stock you up. This quirky mechanic is described as “vegan/vegetarian friendly and organic” by the creator, poking fun at Minecraft’s own bizarre logic. Once you have raw bacon, you are ready to cook.
Cooking Up a Snack
Raw bacon behaves like any other smeltable food. Pop it into a furnace with some fuel, and out comes cooked bacon. Each piece of cooked bacon restores two full hunger icons (one drumstick) when eaten on its own. That might not sound like much, but the real magic happens when you combine it with a tool.
Crafting Edible Tools
To create a bacon-wrapped tool, head to a crafting bench. The recipe is as straightforward as it gets: place any standard tool (shovel, axe, pickaxe, hoe, or sword) in the crafting grid alongside one piece of cooked bacon. The tool must be at full durability for the wrapping to work — you cannot slap bacon on a half-broken pickaxe. The output is a tool that looks identical but now carries a hidden edible property. There are no special textures or models, keeping the vanilla aesthetic intact while adding a secret snack function.
Eating Your Tools: Mechanics and Strategy
When you right-click while holding an edible tool, your character will consume the bacon layer, restoring two hunger icons and instantly reducing the tool’s durability by 50 points. You can keep eating the tool repeatedly until its durability hits zero and it breaks. This creates an interesting risk-reward dynamic. For example, a diamond pickaxe with 1561 durability can be eaten about 31 times before shattering, providing a massive emergency food supply. However, each bite brings you closer to losing a valuable tool. It’s perfect for those moments when your hunger is dangerously low and you are far from your base, but you will need to decide whether saving a few minutes is worth the repair cost later.
Keep in mind that the tool must be fully repaired before you can wrap it with bacon again. If you eat it down to 20 durability, you cannot simply add more bacon — you must mend it back to full first, either with an anvil, Mending enchantment, or crafting a fresh tool.
Installation Guide
Setting up Bacon Wrapped Tools is quick and follows the standard Forge mod installation process. First, make sure you have Minecraft Forge for version 1.12 installed — the mod requires forge-1.12-14.21.0.2379 or a later build. Next, download the mod file and place it into your mods folder located at %appdata%/.minecraft/mods/. If you have an older version of the same mod for 1.12, delete it before launching the game to avoid conflicts. Then simply start Minecraft with the Forge profile, and the new items will be ready in your world. For those who prefer a more streamlined approach, the foxygame.net launcher lets you install this mod with a few clicks from its built-in mod menu, eliminating manual folder management and making it incredibly easy to keep your mods organized. Once installed, you can immediately begin harvesting bacon from leaves and crafting your edible arsenal.
Why This Mod Deserves a Spot in Your Modpack
Bacon Wrapped Tools doesn’t overhaul the game or add complex systems. Instead, it solves a common annoyance with a humorous, low-effort solution that feels right at home in Minecraft’s quirky universe. It encourages players to think differently about resource management: every tree becomes a potential food source, and every tool can double as a last-resort meal. The mod is also fully compatible with modpacks, so you can freely include it in your custom collections. Whether you are a builder who forgets to eat, an explorer who hates inventory clutter, or just someone who appreciates the absurdity of bacon-wrapped pickaxes, this tiny addition delivers a big smile.
Final Thoughts
Bacon Wrapped Tools proves that sometimes the best mods are the simplest ones. It merges two core survival mechanics — hunger and tool durability — into one entertaining package that never feels overpowered. The next time you find yourself deep underground with a rumbling stomach and no bread in sight, you will be grateful for that bacon-wrapped shovel. Give it a try, and never mine on an empty stomach again.