I'll give it a shot, to answer your question no rice nor other items appear, however it does appear in the forge mod list in the main menu of mindcrack. This is what i did. Opened up mindcrack file, i saw instmods minecraft folder. I opened minecraft and put millenaire and millenaire-custom in it... so now those two are with the bin, config, coremods, crash-report, customnpcs, lib.... so forth and so on. then i went to mods where i placed the millenaire4.2.0zip file in with the rest of the zip files.
On a side note is there any mod where i can add that can give me purpose. Millenaire provides allies and enemies in the game. Custom NPC's allows you to manually build allies and enemies but i do not like knowing where all the bad guys are and there strengths and weaknesses and i only them to populate the NPC town i inhabited to give it a more lively feel, develop a currency/trading system, and use them for protection, and mercs. I'm looking for something to simply provide adventure, to use technology and magic i've obtained in order to attack or defend against an opposing forces. I have Mo' creatures added which provides random bits of excitement where an ogre comes crashing through the walls and me and the towns guard gut it out with the beast in order to bring it down or a Golem (not iron) starts ripping apart the kingdom and chunks pieces of building material all over the place, making a huge mess of things. These things are short lived and fun and it challenges me, the player to find a solution to deal with such creatures later on more effectively. And attacking or "taking over" NPC vanilla villages are just... its sad it really is.
Are there any mods out there to you or any others knowledge that could fix this?