The Ultimate Guide to Let’s Do Farm & Charm

Let’s Do Farm & Charm is a fantastic mod that complements the other Let’s Do mods and is featured in massive mod packs like Society Sunlit Valley. This comprehensive guide will walk you through all the features, crops, contraptions, and tools this mod has to offer, perfect for both beginners and experienced modders.

Getting Started with Crops

Farm & Charm introduces a wide variety of new crops that you’ll find growing naturally throughout the world. When you first explore, you’ll encounter wild strawberries, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, oats, corn, barley, carrots, potatoes, beetroots, emmer, ribwort, and nettle plants.

These crops serve multiple purposes. For example, breaking a nettle plant gives you a wild nettle, which can be processed into nettle tea using a bucket of water and a stove device. Nettle tea provides instant health, food saturation, and hunger restoration. Similarly, ribwort can be made into ribwort tea, which grants regeneration effects. Each crop has unique uses in the cooking system.

For easier management, you can compress nine of the same crop into a 3×3×3 crafting grid to create bags or bales of leaf crops. We recommend using JEI (Just Enough Items) and pressing the U key to view all possible uses for each crop type.

Silos: Processing Crops into Fertilizer

Silos are one of the most interesting features in Farm & Charm. You can craft both wooden and copper silos, which appear to be aesthetically different but functionally identical.

To use a silo, simply place wild plants (such as wild oats), podsol, or even rotten flesh inside. After processing, you’ll receive bone meal, fertilized soil, or fertilizer. The beauty of silos is their scalability—you can create multi-block structures of varying sizes.

The smallest configuration is a 1×1 silo, and you can expand up to a 3×3 structure with a 9-block height (the maximum possible size with a hollow interior). Regardless of size, every silo takes exactly 10 seconds to process its contents. To use a silo, right-click to insert materials, wait approximately 10 seconds, then right-click again to collect your results.

Using Fertilizer and Fertilized Soil

Once you’ve obtained fertilizer from a silo, you have two options: convert it into compost or into fertilized soil. While fertilized soil is believed to accelerate crop growth when used with a hoe, definitive information online is limited.

However, there’s a more practical use: equip a pitchfork and right-click on fertilized soil (not farmland). This will cause a large area of grass and vegetation to grow around it, while your fertilized soil remains intact. This makes fertilized soil an excellent resource for landscaping and terrain development.

Cooking Contraptions

The Stove

The stove is one of the simplest contraptions to craft and use. Once built, you can place either a cooking pot or a roaster on top of it. The stove has three fuel slots for coal.

When using the stove for baking, press U to view the interface. For example, you can combine two corn and some butter (crafted in a crafting bowl) to make roasted corn, which grants you the Feast buff for three minutes. Other recipes provide buffs like Grandma’s Blessing for two minutes.

The Cooking Pot

The cooking pot is a more advanced cooking station with six ingredient slots plus one item slot. Unlike Farmers Delight (another popular mod), the cooking pot will not automatically start cooking unless you place the required bowl in the item slot.

For example, to make potato soup, place potatoes and onions (harvested from wild onions) into ingredient slots, then place a bowl in the item slot. The cooking pot will process the recipe and produce your finished dish. You can view all available recipes by pressing U in the interface.

The Roaster

Similar to the cooking pot, the roaster can be placed on top of the stove. Click on recipes in your JEI interface and press U to see what you can make with the roaster.

Animal Management Tools

Feeding Trough

The feeding trough is a simple block that automatically feeds nearby animals within a 16×16 radius. Simply place food inside, and nearby animals will consume it without requiring manual intervention or hoppers.

Water Sprinkler

The water sprinkler is an aesthetically pleasing block that automatically hydrates nearby crops, eliminating the need for manual watering or water channels.

Cattle Grid and Fencing

The cattle grid is a brilliant innovation for animal containment. When placed, cattle will refuse to cross it—even when tempted with wheat. This eliminates the need for traditional fencing to keep livestock contained. Farm & Charm also offers decorative variants like the iron divider and chicken fence for aesthetic purposes.

Chicken Nest and Chicken Coop

The chicken nest is a block where chickens automatically lay eggs, preventing despawning and eliminating the need for hoppers and complex collection systems. The upgraded chicken coop is an improved version where chickens actually enter and nest inside. Right-click the coop to collect all eggs at once—you can gather up to nine eggs in a single interaction.

Animal Feed Types

Farm & Charm provides specialized feed for different animals:

Dog Food: Grants attack damage, attack speed, and knockback resistance to wolves

Chicken Feed: Clucks for 30 seconds when used

Horse Feed: Grants jump and jump strength buffs to horses

Cat Food: Increases the chance of taming wild cats

All animal feed can be compressed into 3×3 bags (dog bag, food bags, and cat food bags) for convenient storage.

Decorative and Utility Blocks

Window Sill

The window sill can be placed against solid blocks like oak logs. It contains two pots where you can display wild nettles, flowers, and other plants for decoration.

Tool Rack

Tool racks are decorative blocks where you can hang tools, weapons, and other items (but not water or milk buckets). You can place up to three tool racks on a wall for an organized display.

Sturdy Ladder

The sturdy ladder appears to be a purely decorative variant of the standard Minecraft ladder.

Dungery

The dungery can be obtained by trading with farmer NPCs. It prevents farmland trampling and displays the feeding level of farm animals, making it useful for organized farms.

Scarecrow

The scarecrow is a special item unlocked through an achievement requiring you to craft all food variants available in the mod. Once placed, it increases the growth rate of surrounding seeds, making it a valuable late-game addition to your farm.

Crafting Bowl and Food Preparation

The crafting bowl is essential for creating butter and other processed foods. To use it, right-click or shift-right-click to manage contents. For example, right-click a milk bucket into the bowl, then repeatedly right-click to stir it. Eventually, the milk will transform into butter, which you can retrieve with an empty hand. This process is straightforward and doesn’t require external energy.

The Mince: Processing Meat

The mince is a simple machine that processes raw meat into smaller portions. Place raw chicken into the mince, and it will produce free chicken parts. These parts can substitute for whole chicken in recipes, effectively tripling your chicken yield. To use the mince, right-click to insert raw chicken and right-click again to collect the chicken bits.

The mince can also process raw copper into copper nuggets, though this isn’t a primary use case.

The Plow and Supply Cart

Supply Cart

The supply cart is a mobile container you can drag around your farm. Shift right-click the cart to attach it to yourself, then move around with it. However, detaching can be finicky, so be prepared for some trial and error.

Plow

The plow is a game-changing tool for large-scale farming. Attach it to yourself using shift right-click, then run across your terrain. The plow automatically tills soil as you move, eliminating the tedious process of using a hoe on each block individually. This is especially valuable when preparing massive crop areas. Left-click to detach the plow from yourself when finished.

Conclusion

Let’s Do Farm & Charm offers a comprehensive farming expansion with intuitive mechanics and beautiful aesthetics. From processing wild crops into food and fertilizer to automating animal care and landscaping, this mod enhances the vanilla farming experience significantly. The variety of contraptions—silos, stoves, cooking pots, and specialized tools like the plow—make farm management enjoyable rather than tedious. Whether you’re playing in a large modpack like Society Sunlit Valley or adding it to your custom setup, Farm & Charm provides excellent quality-of-life improvements and creative possibilities for agricultural gameplay.

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