1.0.0-alpha.4

Farm ingredients, crafting, and cake update for Minecraft 26.2 on Fabric.

Added

• Freshness tracking for wheat, cocoa beans, pumpkins, eggs, mushrooms, and kelp, with freshness stage and remaining shelf life shown in their tooltips.
• Weighted ingredient quality for bread, cookies, pumpkin pie, stews, golden foods, and other supported recipes.
• Freshness-aware vanilla cake. Placed cakes keep their quality across slices and candle cakes, and can be inspected by sneaking with an empty hand.
• A bundled experimental Pantry API for read-only freshness, food, preservation, and storage-environment integrations. Players still install only the Pantry jar.
• Storage handling for shelves, decorated pots, and chest boats.

Changed

• Baking can recover a small amount of quality, but does not turn old ingredients into perfectly fresh food.
• Golden carrots and golden apples inherit the freshness and spoilage risk of their base produce. Golden carrots now use four gold ingots and grant a brief regeneration effect.
• Crafted food keeps its own spoilage risk while also carrying diluted risk from spoiled ingredients.
• Manual food-batch merging and automatic inventory movement now use separate thresholds. Dragging across several stacks preserves the correct weighted freshness.
• Multiplayer clients use the server's gameplay settings while keeping local display preferences.

Fixed

• Crafting Tables and Crafters now apply the same freshness and inherited-risk rules.
• Creative preview food remains frozen through storage, splitting, and failed merge attempts.
• Invalid stack data and contradictory config values fall back safely instead of causing broken freshness values or startup crashes.
• Related config options save together, and closing the config screen discards unsaved changes correctly.
• Dropped food, campfire cooking, furnace remainders, portable storage, and less-common container paths received additional fixes and testing.

Notes

• Existing alpha worlds should be backed up before updating.