
Bowling Bulb
Painstakingly removes bowls from minecraft (with Farmer's Delight support)
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About this Mod
Requires Farmer's Delight. Has optional integration with Nirvana, Brewin' and Chewin', and EMI.

This mod adds Bowling Bulb from Plants vs. Zombies 2. Except I accidentally added an Alternate Universe version of him which is an invisible eldritch reality bending entity that only interacts with the mortal plane by eating ALL OF YOUR BOWLS. Every time you eat an item with a bowl container the bowl is stolen by Bowling Bulb. You cannot prevent this. It is as if bowls were never even there.
I did some testing and here's the specific things that having him in your world will do:
- All bowl items had their crafting remainder set to air. This means that bowls should no longer pop up when you use a bowl item to craft something (looking at you Tomato Sauce) or be returned when you eat an item.
- Shapeless crafting recipes that requires bowls no longer do.
- Most Farmer's Delight and Dungeon's Delight feasts had their recipes touched up so it still fills the crafting grid. Some cooking pot recipes that prominently feature their container in their properties have had their containers shoved into the main recipe. The specific recipes that have been changed are: from Dungeon's Delight, Au Rotten Potatoes, Chicken Jockey Sandwich, Malicious Sandwich, Ossobuco, and Snuffledogs; from Brewin' and Chewin', Fiery Fondue Pots; from Farmer's Delight, Gleaming Salad, Honey Glazed Ham, Roast Chicken, and Shepherd's Pie.

- Farmer's Delight Cooking Pot will no longer have a container slot. Cooked meals will go directly to the output slot.
- This also applies to Dungeons Delight's Monster Pot, and the respective slots have been removed from EMI and JEI plugins as well.
- Since the meal-storing functionality of pots no longer work, both monster pots and cooking pots now stack to 64.
- Suspicious Stew and Nirvana Healing Salves no longer require bowls. Also their EMI plugin has been changed to reflect this. I'm mentioning this because it was like three extra mixins since they use special crafting recipes. Thanks Bowling Bulb
- If EMI is installed, the Suspicious Stew, (Nirvana) Healing Salves, and Suspicious Pipe recipes will use nice EMI versions that's condensed into 1 recipe instead of showing literally one recipe per flower for no reason.
- You take portions from feasts by right clicking with an empty hand.
- Bowls have been removed from every single loot table. If you add a loot table with bowls in it it'll get removed. The power of Bowling Bulb knows no bounds.
- You can no longer milk mooshrooms; you can no longer feed brown mooshrooms flowers.
Bowling Bulb is slowly becoming more powerful. Soon he might be able to eat Glass Bottles too. It will be a grim and disturbing day.
Available Versions
How to Install Bowling Bulb on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set forge Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the forge loader and matching Minecraft version (1.20.1).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Bowling Bulb". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.20.1
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Bowling Bulb server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong forge version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.20.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Bowling Bulb compatible with forge and neoforge?
Bowling Bulb officially supports forge, neoforge for Minecraft 1.20.1. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Bowling Bulb – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Bowling Bulb consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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