Fluid Ingredients and Fluid Stack Templates

Several Resourceful Bees recipes use NeoForge fluid ingredient codecs or fluid stack templates. They are similar concepts but have different JSON shapes.

Fluid Ingredient

A fluid ingredient selects acceptable input fluids. It accepts either a direct fluid ID, a fluid tag, or a custom NeoForge ingredient object.

Direct fluid

"minecraft:water"

Fluid tag

"#c:water"

Custom NeoForge fluid ingredient

{
  "neoforge:ingredient_type": "namespace:custom_type"
}

Custom objects require neoforge:ingredient_type; remaining fields depend on the registered ingredient type.

Sized Fluid Ingredient

Used by solidification recipes.

Field	Type	Required	Default	Range
ingredient	Fluid Ingredient	Yes	—	—
amount	integer	No	1000	>= 1

Example:

{
  "ingredient": "minecraft:lava",
  "amount": 1000
}

Fluid Stack Template

Used by flow hive recipes to describe produced fluid rather than matched input fluid.

Two forms are accepted.

Compact form

"resourcefulbees:ruby_honey_fluid_source"

This represents the named fluid with a bucket-volume amount (1000) and no component patch.

Expanded form

Field	Type	Required	Default	Range
id	non-empty fluid identifier	Yes	—	—
amount	integer	Yes	—	>= 1
components	DataComponentPatch object	No	{}	—

{
  "id": "resourcefulbees:ruby_honey_fluid_source",
  "amount": 1000,
  "components": {}
}

minecraft:empty (and the shorthand empty) are rejected for fluid stack templates.