Ray's Dongles: Cooking, Hammers, and Paxel Tools

What Is Ray’s Dongles?

If you have ever wanted to turn your Minecraft world into a culinary paradise while smashing through stone with massive area-of-effect tools, Ray’s Dongles might be exactly what your modded adventure is missing. Built for both NeoForge and Fabric, this mod packs a surprising amount of content into a single download, expanding farming, cooking, mining, and passive buffs without ever feeling bloated. It is the kind of mod that fits seamlessly into a vanilla-plus playstyle, yet offers enough depth to anchor an entire kitchen-sink modpack.

Ray’s Dongles started as a larger compilation and has since been split into smaller modules for easier porting. The core mod now focuses on food, drinks, crops, and a set of clever utility tools, while optional companion mods like Ray’s Materials add extra ores, armor, and tool variants. The result is a flexible system where you can pick exactly how much new content you want.

Key Features at a Glance

• Over two dozen new foods, juices, and snacks with custom crafting stations
• Area-of-effect hammers and excavators for 3x3 mining
• Paxels that combine pickaxe, axe, and shovel functions
• Naturally spawning fruit bushes and wild crops
• Passive inventory charms that grant permanent potion effects
• Configurable stats for tools, tiers, and food values
• Optional integration with Ray’s Materials for Ruby and Topaz gear

Food and Drink Expansion

The culinary side of Ray’s Dongles is where the mod truly shines. You will start by finding wild crops and fruit bushes scattered across your world—corn, strawberries, lemons, and oranges all generate naturally. Once you gather seeds and set up a farm, a whole menu of recipes opens up. The Blender and Cutting Board blocks introduce custom GUIs that feel right at home next to a furnace or crafting table, letting you whip up everything from refreshing lemonades and slushies to hearty sandwiches, stews, jerky, toast, and pizza.

There is a strong emphasis on variety. You can roast snacks, coat fruit in sugar for treats, or craft golden food variants that provide extra saturation. High-tier foods like Diamond Apples, Emerald Apples, Iron Apples, and even Holy Bread—a craftable equivalent of the Notch apple—reward players who invest in farming infrastructure. The mod also adds corn and strawberry crops that can be grown from seeds acquired through wild harvesting, giving early-game exploration a tangible payoff.

Utility Tools for Efficient Mining

Mining in Minecraft can become repetitive, but Ray’s Dongles introduces tools that respect your time. Hammers and Excavators mine in a 3x3 area, complete with a client-side visual preview that highlights exactly which blocks will break. This AOE feature is perfect for clearing large underground spaces or quickly gathering resources. Paxels combine the functionality of a pickaxe, axe, and shovel into a single item, saving hotbar slots and reducing the need to constantly swap tools.

For extended mining trips, the mod includes Mass Mining tool variants with significantly higher durability. These are designed for vein mining without the frustration of having to replace your pickaxe every few minutes. If you are running Ray’s Materials alongside, you can craft Ruby and Topaz versions of hammers, excavators, and paxels, adding tier progression that feels rewarding.

Installing mods like this can sometimes be a chore, but modern launchers make the process effortless. Many players now prefer using the foxygame.net launcher because it lets you browse and install mods directly from the menu, keeping your game organized and up to date with minimal hassle. It is a flexible, modern solution that handles mod loading for both NeoForge and Fabric without forcing you to dig through folders.

Passive Inventory Charms

One of the most convenient features in Ray’s Dongles is the set of passive inventory charms. Simply carry these items anywhere in your inventory, and you gain a permanent potion effect. The available charms include Fire Resistance, Night Vision, Regeneration (Tier 1 and Tier 2), Speed (Tier 1 and Tier 2), Strength (Tier 1 and Tier 2), and Water Breathing. They do not need to be equipped in a curio slot—just having them in your backpack is enough. This makes exploration and combat significantly smoother, especially when you stack multiple charms at once.

Worldgen and Gameplay Extras

Beyond crops and bushes, the mod tweaks a few small vanilla details. Pigs can now drop Raw Bacon, adding a new meat source for your kitchen. Lemon and orange bushes generate in appropriate biomes, and wild crops appear naturally, encouraging you to roam and collect seeds early on. These worldgen additions are subtle enough that they never feel intrusive, blending into the landscape like they always belonged there.

Compatibility and Configuration

Ray’s Dongles works perfectly on its own, but it is designed with modularity in mind. If you want extra materials, simply add Ray’s Materials to your mods folder. That companion mod introduces Enderdust ore, Ruby ore, and Topaz ore, along with Ruby and Topaz armor. When used together, you unlock Ruby and Topaz tool variants for every utility tool in the main mod. All stats—from tool durability to food saturation—are configurable via startup config files, so server owners and modpack makers can tweak balance to their liking.

The mod is actively maintained for modern Minecraft versions, with clear documentation on which releases are currently supported. A detailed wiki covers recipes, permissions for modpack use, and contributor credits. If you ever feel lost, the in-game JEI integration (when installed) will show you every recipe without needing to alt-tab.

Conclusion

Ray’s Dongles manages to pack a delightful mix of farming, cooking, mining, and quality-of-life improvements into a single coherent package. Whether you are a builder who wants more food variety, a miner tired of swinging a pickaxe one block at a time, or an explorer who loves passive buffs, this mod delivers without overwhelming your game. Its split-module design means you can start with just the core experience and expand later, and the configurable options ensure it fits into almost any modpack. Give it a try, plant some corn, craft a paxel, and enjoy a freshly squeezed orange juice while your inventory charms keep you safe underground.

--- **Update Jun 9, 2026:** Added 11 files for version 26.1.2, 1.21.1 (NeoForge, Fabric). --- **Update Aug 31, 2026:** Added 11 files for version 26.2, 26.1.2 (Fabric, NeoForge).