Food

Hardcore Hunger drastically changes the way the food system works in Minecraft. It removes the invisible saturation value used in vanilla and replaces it with a visible fat bar. Fat is built up when the player eats more food than necessary to fill the hunger bar or when eating desserts after full. Fat is burned off when the hunger level goes below the fat level.

Changes from vanilla

• Health regeneration is decreased to restore half a heart of health every 30 seconds.
• Additional food poisoning effects for raw foods aside from chicken.
• Hunger steadily decreases as time passes as well as when you perform actions.
• The Hunger status effect has been renamed Food Poisoning, and you are unable to eat while being affected by it.
• Food stacks are limited to 16.
• Visual feedback added to the hunger meter whenever hunger is consumed by a player action.

Detrimental effects

Failing to keep your health, food and fat levels healthy causes detrimental effects.

Caused by hunger bar

Description	Cause	Effect
	Hunger bar ≤ 5	Loss of heal
Peckish	Hunger bar ≤ 4	Loss of sprint
Hungry	Hunger bar ≤ 3	Decrease in movement speed (1.33x less), inability to hand crank decrease in attack strength, decrease in bow power
Famished	Hunger bar ≤ 2	Decrease in movement speed (2x less), loss of jump
Starving	Hunger bar ≤ 1	Decrease in movement speed (4x less)
Dying	Hunger and fat bar empty	Nausea and damage

Caused by health bar

Description	Cause	Effect
Hurt	Health bar ≤ 5	Loss of sprint
Injured	Health bar ≤ 4	Decrease in movement speed (1.33x less), decrease in attack strength, decrease in bow power
Wounded	Health bar ≤ 3	Decrease in movement speed (2x less)
Crippled	Health bar ≤ 2	Decrease in movement speed (4x less), loss of jump, inability to swim
Dying	Health bar ≤ 1	Blindness

Caused by fat bar

Description	Cause	Effect
Plump	Fat bar ≥ 6	Loss of sprint
Chubby	Fat bar ≥ 7	Decrease in movement speed (1.33x less), decrease in attack strength, decrease in bow power
Fat	Fat bar ≥ 8	Decrease in movement speed (2x less)
Obese	Fat bar ≥ 9	Decrease in movement speed (4x less), loss of jump

Progression of Food

Hardcore Hunger adds and modifies several recipes for foods. Resulting from the modified recipes Better Than Wolves gives a sense of progression towards better foods.

Basic Foods

These foods are available to the player at the start of the game. They are either limited in supply or the amount of hunger they restore is too small to sustain the player.

Name	How to Make	Hunger Restored	Additional effects
Brown Mushroom	Found in the world	.16 shanks
Red Mushroom	Found in the world	.16 shanks	Causes Poison for 5 seconds, making you lose 2 hearts.
Raw Pumpkin Seed	Crafting or dropping a Pumpkin	.16 shanks
Cocoa Beans	Found in jungles	.16 shanks
Raw Chicken, Raw Mutton	Dropped by Chickens or Sheep	1.5 shanks	Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Cooked Chicken, Mutton		2 shanks
Raw Beef, Raw Porkchop, Raw Wolfchop	Dropped by Cows, Pigs or Wolves	2 shanks	Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Beef, Porkchop, Cooked Wolfchop		2.5 shanks
Rotten Flesh	Dropped by Zombies	1.5 shanks	Has a 80% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Bat Wing	Dropped by Bats	.5 shanks	Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Spider Eye	Dropped by Spiders	1 shank	Causes Poison for 5 seconds, making you lose 2 hearts.
Creeper Oyster	Dropped by Creepers	1 shank	Causes Poison for 5 seconds, making you lose 2 hearts.

Iron Tools

These foods require a bucket, a fishing rod or a iron hoe to harvest, and are the first renewable foods the player will be able to sustain himself with. Additionally, the player can use shears to cut grass to lure cows and sheep to their farms.

Name	How to Make	Hunger Restored	Additional Effects
Melon	Harvesting Melons grown from Melon Seeds found in Abandoned Mine Shafts	.33 shanks
Milk	Milking Cows	1 shank	Cures the player of any Status effects
Chocolate Milk		1.5 shanks	Cures the player of any Status effects
Raw Fish	Hardcore Fishing	1.5 shanks	Has a 30% chance of causing food poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Cooked Fish		2 shanks
Raw Egg	Throwing Eggs	1 shank	Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Fried Egg		1.5 shanks
Raw Scrambled Eggs		2 shanks	Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Cooked Scrambled Eggs		2.5 shanks
Raw Mushroom Omelet		1.5 shanks	Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Cooked Mushroom Omelet		2 shanks
Ham and Eggs		3 shanks

The Cauldron

These recipes are only available in a Cauldron and offer more options for renewable foods to the player, and allow the breeding of pigs using chocolate.

Name	How to Make	Hunger Restored	Additional Effects
Chocolate		1 shank or .5 rolls
Cream of Mushroom		1.5 shanks
Poached Egg		1.5 shanks
Chowder		2.5 shanks
Kibble		1.5 shanks	Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Foul Food	32x32px	.5 shanks	Has a 80% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.

Domesticated Crops

Carrots, potatoes and wheat are only available in Villages. In addition to being able to use wheat to breed all animals, these crops give the player access to the best foods available in Better than Wolves.

Name	How to Make	Hunger Restored	Additional Effects
Bread		2 shanks
Tasty Sandwich		3 shanks
Cookie Dough
Cookie		.5 shanks or .5 rolls
Oven Ready Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Pie		1 shank or 2.5 rolls
Cake Batter
Cake		.66 shanks or 2 rolls per slice 4 shanks or 12 rolls per cake
Donut		.5 shanks or .25 rolls
Potato	Found in populated Villages	.5 shanks
Poisonous Potato	Found in populated Villages	.5 shanks	Has a 60% chance of causing Poison for 5 seconds, making you lose 2 hearts.
Baked Potato		1 shank
Boiled Potato		1 shank
Steak and Potatoes		3 shanks
Carrot	Found in populated Villages	.5 shanks
Cooked Carrot		1 shank
Uncooked Kebab		3 shanks	Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Kebab		4 shanks
Steak Dinner		4 shanks
Pork Dinner		4 shanks
Wolf Dinner		4 shanks
Chicken Soup		4 shanks
Hearty Stew		5 shanks

Other Foods

These foods are either leftover from vanilla, or require abnormal circumstances in Better than Wolves to occur. Either way, they are not intended to be part of the player's regular diet.

Name	How to Make	Hunger Restored	Additional Effects
Apple	Found in Strongholds or by trading with Villagers	.5 shanks
Golden Apple		.5 shanks	Gives Regeneration for 5 seconds, restoring 2 hearts.
Golden Apple		.5 shanks	Gives Regeneration IV for 30 seconds, Resistance IV for 5 minutes and Fire Resistance IV for 5 minutes.
Golden Carrot		.5 shanks
Raw Mystery Meat	Dropped by Villagers or the player	2 shanks	Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Cooked Mystery Meat		2.5 shanks
Liver Of The Beast	Dropped by The Beast	2.5 shanks	Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Cooked Liver		3 shanks

Keep in Mind

• Detrimental effects are only applied when a status is shown.
• As a general rule, food items with more ingredients are more efficient.
• Under Hardcore Hunger, since healing speed is greatly reduced, staying fed above "peckish" is important when there is a risk of health loss.
• All furnace recipes shown here also work in either the Cauldron, or the Kiln.