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 poisoning effect from eating raw meat has significantly increased length
• Food stacks are limited to 16.
• Visual feedback added to the hunger meter whenever hunger is consumed by a player action.

Fat

• Fat is a secondary hunger bar, indicated by a white outline around the normal hunger bar
• Each pip of fat is divided into 8 subsections (as opposed to the 6 for normal hunger)
• Whenever you eat more food than your hunger bar can contain, you can gain fat.
• Fat gained is generally 1/8 of a pip per half a pip of over eating
• Certain high fat foods will give 1/4 of a pip per half a pip of over eating
• A pip of fat is burned in the same way as hunger, but only after the pip of hunger that it surrounds is empty
• A fat pip takes the same amount of activity to burn through as a hunger pip

Detrimental effects

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

Caused by hunger bar

Description	Cause	Exhaustion Level	Additional Effects
Peckish	Hunger bar ≤ 4	100%	Loss of heal, loss of sprint
Hungry	Hunger bar ≤ 3	75%	Inability to use the Hand Crank
Famished	Hunger bar ≤ 2	50%	Loss of jump
Starving	Hunger bar ≤ 1	25%
Dying	Hunger and fat bar empty	25%	Nausea and damage

Caused by health bar

Description	Cause	Exhaustion Level	Additional Effects
Hurt	Health bar ≤ 5	100%	Loss of sprint
Injured	Health bar ≤ 4	75%
Wounded	Health bar ≤ 3	50%
Crippled	Health bar ≤ 2	25%	Loss of jump, inability to swim
Dying	Health bar ≤ 1	25%	Blindness

Caused by fat bar

Description	Cause	Exhaustion Level	Additional Effects
Plump	Fat bar ≥ 6	100%	Loss of sprint
Chubby	Fat bar ≥ 7	75%
Fat	Fat bar ≥ 8	50%
Obese	Fat bar ≥ 9	25%	Loss of jump

Exhaustion level affects movement speed, mining speed, attack strength and bow strength. The player will only be affected by the worst exhaustion level, in addition to any other effects applicable to the player. If the player is affected by Gloom, his exhaustion level will be multiplied by 50%.

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	Ingredients	Input » Output	Hunger Restored
Bread	Bread Dough		2 shanks
Tasty Sandwich	Bread, Cooked Chicken or Cooked Mutton or Steak or Cooked Fish or Cooked Porkchop or Cooked Mystery Meat or Cooked Wolfchop		2.5 shanks
Cookie Dough	Flour, Chocolate		Inedible, bakes into a Cookie
Cookie	Cookie Dough		.5 shank or .5 rolls
Oven Ready Pumpkin Pie	Pumpkin, Sugar, Raw Egg, Flour		Inedible, bakes into a Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Pie	Oven Ready Pumpkin Pie		1 shank or 2.5 Rolls
Cake Batter	Milk, Sugar, Raw Egg, Flour		Inedible, bakes into a Cake
Cake	Cake Batter		.66 shank per slice or 2 rolls per slice 4 shanks
Donut	Flour, Sugar		.5 shank or .25 roll
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	Potato		1 shank
Boiled Potato	Potato or Baked Potato		1 shank
Steak and Potatoes	Steak, Baked Potato or Boiled Potato		3 shanks
Carrot		Found in populated Villages	.5 shanks
Cooked Carrot	Carrot		1 shank
Raw Kebab	Brown Mushroom, Carrot, Shaft, Raw Mutton		3 shanks Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food. Cooks into a Kebab.
Kebab	Raw Kebab		4 shanks
Steak Dinner	Steak, Cooked Carrot Baked Potato or Boiled Potato		4 shanks
Pork Dinner	Cooked Porkchop, Cooked Carrot, Baked Potato or Boiled Potato		4 shanks
Wolf Dinner	Cooked Wolfchop, Cooked Carrot, Baked Potato or Boiled Potato		4 shanks
Chicken Soup	Cooked Chicken, Cooked Carrot, Boiled Potato, Bowl		4 shanks
Hearty Stew	Cooked Carrot, Boiled Potato, Brown Mushroom, Flour, Bowl, Cooked Chicken or Cooked Mutton or Steak or Cooked Porkchop or Cooked Mystery Meat or Cooked Wolfchop		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.