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), inability to hand crank
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.

Tier 1 Hunter Gatherer

Name	How to Make	Hunger Restored
Brown Mushroom	Found in the world	.16 shanks
Red Mushroom	Found in the world	.16 shanks***
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*
Cooked Chicken, Mutton		2 shanks
Raw Beef, Raw Porkchop, Raw Wolfchop, Raw Mystery Meat	Dropped by Cows, Pigs, Wolves or Villagers	2 shanks*
Beef, Porkchop, Cooked Wolfchop, Cooked Mystery Meat		2.5 shanks
Rotten Flesh	Dropped by Zombies	1.5 shanks**
Bat Wing	Dropped by Bats	.5 shanks*
Spider Eye	Dropped by Spiders	1 shank***
Creeper Oyster	Dropped by Creepers	1 shank***

Entry Requirements to this Tier's Food

• Hunting and Gathering. Go figure.

Primary Goals of This Tier

Survive until you can make renewable food.

Secondary Goals of This Tier

• Begin growing the only two foods that are renewable before iron:
  • Mushrooms which you can scatter around your caves and you can collect them as they spreed
  • and Cocoa Beans which you can grow on jungle wood if you're foolish enough to go to a jungle

Requirements to move to the next Tier

• Iron tools

Tier 2 First Taste of Renewable Foods

Name	How to Make	Hunger Restored
Melon	Harvesting Melons grown from Melon Seeds found in Abandoned Mine Shafts	.33 shanks
Milk	Milking Cows	1 shank or .25 rolls
Raw Fish	Hardcore Fishing	1.5 shanks*
Cooked Fish		2 shanks
Raw Egg	Throwing Eggs	1 shank*
Fried Egg		1.5 shanks
Raw Scrambled Eggs		2 shanks*
Cooked Scrambled Eggs		2.5 shanks
Raw Mushroom Omelet		1.5 shanks*
Cooked Mushroom Omelet		2 shanks
Ham and Eggs		3 shanks
Chocolate Milk		1.5 shanks or .375 rolls

Entry Requirements to this Tier's Food

• Iron tools
  • Fishing rod to fish
  • Iron hoe to make pumpkin farm
    • Use pumpkin seeds to breed chickens for eggs
  • Shears to cut tall grass
    • Use tall grass to get cows to follow you to your farm
  • Iron bucket to milk your cows
• Mill stone
  • Use the mill stone to turn cocoa beans into cocoa powder to make chocolate milk

Primary Goals of This Tier

• Food becomes less of a problem at this Tier, especially if you combine foods together

Requirements to move to the next Tier

• Stewing Pot

Tier 3 Mastering the Slow Cooker

Name	How to Make	Hunger Restored
Chocolate		1 shank or .5 rolls
Cream of Mushroom		1.5 shanks
Poached Egg	!Poached Egg	Raw Egg		1.5 shanks	1.5 shanks
Chowder		2.5 shanks
Foul Food	32x32px	.5 shanks**

Entry Requirements to this Tier's Food

• Stewing Pot

Primary Goals of This Tier

Requirements to move to the next Tier

• Finding a populated Village

Tier 4 Utilizing Domesticated Crops

Name	How to Make	Hunger Restored
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****
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**
Kebab		4 shanks
Steak Dinner		4 shanks
Pork Dinner		4 shanks
Wolf Dinner		4 shanks
Chicken Soup		4 shanks
Hearty Stew		5 shanks

Entry Requirements to this Tier's Food

• Finding a populated Village

Other Foods

Name	How to Make	Hunger Restored
Apple	Found in Strongholds or by trading with Villagers	.5 shanks
Golden Apple		.5 shanks
Golden Apple		.5 shanks
Golden Carrot		.5 shanks

*Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
**Has a 80% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
***Causes Poison for 5 seconds, making you lose 2 hearts.
****Has a 60% chance of causing Poison for 5 seconds, making you lose 2 hearts.

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.