Rack of Drying

Drying rack with all the classic recipes, also to make dried meat and dried berries, thatch blocks, and a thatch bed.

Thatch blocks are dried hay bales

Sleep in the thatch bed, just like a straw bed, and it breaks after one night

Drying Rack

• Wall-mounted rack that holds one item at a time and slowly dries/dehydrates it over time into a different result – a general “reverse hydration” device, not just a food dehydrator
• Hopper/pipe automation supported (insert items, pull results) – extraction is blocked while something is actively drying, so automation can’t skim a half-finished item; automation can be disabled entirely via config
• Live progress shown through JEI (recipe browsing), The One Probe, and Jade (hover tooltips)
• Fully data-driven: new drying recipes can be added by any datapack/addon mod via a JSON recipe type, or scripted through CraftTweaker

Configuration

• Toggle hopper/pipe automation on the drying rack
• Toggle whether the Thatch Bed sets your respawn point

Thatch – a full building set

• Thatch block, Stairs, Slab, and Wall (the Wall properly connects to itself and to solid blocks)
• Craftable from Hay Blocks; hardness matches a vanilla Hay Bale, and it burns the same way too
• Thatch Bed: a simplified, no-frills two-block bed reusing the thatch texture – sleeps and sets your respawn point exactly like a vanilla bed (spawn-setting can be turned off per-config), but breaks after one full night’s sleep and hands the item straight back to you – a consumable, rustic alternative to a real bed

What it dries

Food:

• Raw meats (beef, porkchop, chicken, mutton, rabbit) → Jerky, a long-lasting preserved-meat snack
• Fruits (apple, melon, sweet berries, glow berries, chorus fruit) → Fruit Leather
• Seeds (wheat, melon, pumpkin, beetroot) → Dried Seeds – eaten quickly, like dried kelp
• Kelp → Dried Kelp
• Rotten Flesh → Leather (slow – you’re basically tanning it)

Materials (the “reverse hydration/decay” side of things):

• Hay Block → Thatch (this mod’s own building material)
• Wet Sponge → Sponge
• Sandstone → Sand
• Tuff → Calcite
• Coarse Dirt → Gravel
• Mud → Packed Mud
• Lead → String
• Saplings → Dead Bush → Sticks (a two-stage decay chain)
• All 16 Concrete colors → their Concrete Powder
• and more
• Add your own recipes with JSON data packs or crafttweaker for modpacks

Compatibility

• JEI – browse all drying recipes
• The One Probe / Jade – see a drying rack’s live progress by looking at it
• CraftTweaker – add/remove drying recipes from scripts
• Recipe inputs use item tags (forge:foods/raw_meat, forge:foods/fruits, forge:seeds) where possible, so other mods’ meat/fruit/seed items can plug into the existing recipes without needing a datapack override

Example crafttweaker script https://github.com/Lothrazar/RackOfDrying/blob/trunk/1.20.1/examples/rackofdrying_crafttweaker.zs