The Vegan Option

"Veganism is a way of living that seeks to exclude, as far as possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing and any other purpose."
— The Vegan Society

The Vegan Option is a mod that seeks to add vegan alternatives to mob drops under the following guidelines:

• Nothing added to worldgen
• No new crops

Features

It is important to note: some features may be subject to change in the beta phase.

The most in depth information can be found on the Wiki.

Items by Alternative

Links will take you to the Wiki.

Item	Alternative
Bone	Fossils (rare drop when mining stone)
Bone Meal	Fertilizer
Milk (as a food)	Plant Milk
Milk (as a curative)	Soap
Ink Sac	Black Vegetable Oil Ink
Slimeball	Resin
Wool	Kapok
Feather	Faux Feather
String	Jute Fibre and Kapok Tufts
Leather	Burlap
Leather Armor	Burlap Armor
Meat	Seitan
Egg (as a food)	No alternative yet
Egg (as a baking agent)	Potato Starch and Apple Sauce
Egg (as an object)	Plastic Egg
Gunpowder	Charcoal + Sulfur + Saltpeter
Rotten Flesh	Rotten Plants
Blaze Rod	Plastic Rod + Rosin + Vegetable Wax + Flint and Steel
Pufferfish	Frozen Bubble
Ender Pearl	Frozen Bubble + Raw Ender
Ghast Tear	Proof of Suffering
Spider Eye	False Morel and Doll's Eye
Fermented Spider Eye	Fermented False Morel
Mob Heads	Blank Mob Head + Various Dyes
Honeycomb	Vegetable Wax
Honey	Syrup (no wiki article yet)
Rabbit Foot	No alternative yet (discussion)
Goat Horn	No alternative yet
Glow Ink Sac	No alternative yet (discussion)
Phantom Membrane	No alternative yet
Nautilus Shell	No alternative yet
Shulker Shell	No alternative yet
Prismarine Shards	No alternative yet
Nether Star	No alternative yet (discussion)
Dragon Egg	No alternative yet (discussion)
Animal taming items	No alternative yet (discussion)

Mod integration

The mod provides custom Jade and WTHIT handling for certain blocks, such as the Composter. It also has integration with JEI and REI for piston crafting, composting, and an in-game wiki.

Integration with the Thermal Series, Create, and Farmers Delight is planned, when those mods become available.

Versions for 1.10.2 and below have integration features with Pam's HarvestCraft, WAILA, JEI/NEI, Immersive Engineering, and Thermal Foundation and Expansion.

FAQ

Why?

In-game veganism is simply a playstyle that I prefer, in that I think survival games offer a unique way to explore vegan ethics that the real world doesn't provide. For example, attempting to adhere to veganism within Minecraft leads to weird/interesting questions like, "Is it really self-defense to kill a mob if I'm semi-responsible for mobs being able to spawn at all?". It can also encourage non-standard behavior like building a weapon that does the least amount of damage possible.

Do I have to play as a vegan if I install this?

No, this mod simply aims to allow veganism to be a viable option in Minecraft. If you don't choose to adhere to veganism while using this mod, it'll still do a few nice things for you:

• Allows for alternate (hopefully interesting) methods of obtaining mob drops
• Gives uses to various vanilla Minecraft blocks/items that didn't really have a use before (ferns, sunflowers, spruce wood, sandstone, etc)

Should I go vegan (in real life)?

Probably.

Goals before v1.0.0

• Balance
• Add features for all remaining mob drops
• Make the mod configurable
• Add as much mod integration as possible

Forks

This mod was not updated for 1.11 through 1.19. Forks were made for the following versions in that time:

• Vegan Life for 1.12
• Vegan Alternative for 1.11

If you are aware of others, let me know and I will add them to the list.

Legacy features

The following features that existed in older versions have been removed:

• White Ink as a bone meal alternative in dyeing. Removed in 1.20.2 due to vanilla including several ways to create white dye without killing mobs.

Misc

You are welcome to add this to any modpack you'd like.

The original idea for the mod came from wha-ha-ha on Reddit.

Minecraft Forum thread