Food

Foods are consumable items that when eaten restore hunger and fat and sometimes cause status effects. They are essential to survival, as going without them will handicap and eventually starve the player to death. Most foods cannot be eaten when full, and convert a portion of excess hunger gain if eaten when near full to fat gain. Desserts can be eaten when full, and convert to fat gain more efficiently. All foods can be stacked to 16, except for milk, chocolate milk and cured meat.

Hunger and Fat

Players have a hunger bar, which shows their hunger and fat level. The hunger level is represented by 10 shanks and each shank is divided in 6 segments. The fat level is represented by a white outline around the hunger bar, and each roll is divided in 8 segments.

The hunger level is increased by eating food, and decreased over time, as well by actions such as walking, sprinting, or jumping. The hunger bar shakes whenever hunger is consumed by player action.

The fat level is decreased instead of the food level if there is fat over an empty shank of the hunger bar. A full roll of fat lasts for the same amount of activity as a full shank of hunger. The fat level is increased by excess food gain when the hunger meter is full. Most foods convert a quarter of the hunger gain to fat gain, but desserts give between half and three times their hunger gain as fat gain.

When hunger is at a high enough value, the player regenerates half a heart of health every 30 seconds. If it depletes below certain thresholds, the player loses their ability to sprint, jump, and becomes progressively worse at moving, mining and dealing damage. If the hunger bar is empty, the player's health will deplete.

The player can get food poisoning from eating certain raw foods or being attacked by a jungle spider, which causes the player's hunger to deplete faster as well as making them unable to eat food.

Food Exhaustion Values

Every 600 ticks (aka 30 seconds) food exhaustion is ticked up by 0.5, where 1.33 exhaustion is equal to 1/6 of a shank.

So overall, the player loses (1/6 shank) every 80 seconds.

Action	Exhaustion	Affected by Difficulty	Details
Walking 1 block	0.01	No	You loose 1/6 shank for every 133 blocks you walk, 1 shank for every 798 blocks.
Sprinting 1 block	0.1	Yes	Relaxed is 0.5x, classic is 0.2x
Swimming 1 block upward	0.04	Yes	Relaxed is 0.5x, classic is 0.2x
Swimming 1 block horizontally	0.015	Yes	Relaxed is 0.5x, classic is 0.2x
Jumping	0.2	Yes	Relaxed is 0.5x, classic is 0.2x
Jumping when sprinting	1	Yes	Relaxed is 0.5x, classic is 0.2x
Breaking a block	0.025	No
Hitting an entity	0.3	No
Using a Fire Plough	0.05	No	Firestarters tick every 4 ticks aka 0.2 seconds
Using a Bow Drill	0.025	No	Firestarters tick every 4 ticks aka 0.2 seconds
Using a Flint and Steel	0.01	No	Firestarters tick every 4 ticks aka 0.2 seconds
Using a Hand Crank	2	No

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
Emaciated	Hunger bar ≤ 1	25%
Starving	Hunger and fat bar empty	25%	Nausea and damage

Caused by health bar

Description	Cause	Exhaustion Level	Additional Effects
Hurt	Health ≤10 ()	100%	Loss of sprint
Injured	Health ≤8 ()	75%
Wounded	Health ≤6 ()	50%
Crippled	Health ≤4 ()	25%	Loss of jump, inability to swim
Dying	Health ≤2 ()	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, their 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	Ingredients	Input » Output	Hunger Restored
Brown Mushroom		Found in deep Overworld caves.	.16 shanks
Red Mushroom		Found on the Overworld surface and in the Nether.	.16 shanks Causes Poison for 5 seconds, making you lose 2 hearts.
Pumpkin Seeds	Pumpkin		.16 shanks
Cocoa Beans		Harvested from cocoa plants grown on Jungle Wood trees.	.16 shanks
Raw Chicken		Dropped by Chickens.	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	Raw Chicken		2 shanks
Raw Mutton		Dropped by 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 Mutton	Raw Mutton		2 shanks
Raw Beef		Dropped by Cows	2 shanks Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Steak	Raw Beef		2.5 shanks
Raw Porkchop		Dropped by Pigs.	2 shanks Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Cooked Porkchop	Raw Porkchop		2.5 shanks
Raw Wolfchop		Dropped by Wolves	2 shanks Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Cooked Wolfchop	Raw Wolfchop		2.5 shanks
Cured Meat	Any Raw Meat, Nitre		1.5 shanks
Burned Meat		Dropped by burning animals.	1 shank
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.	.50 shank 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		Sheared or 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 an 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	Ingredients	Input » Output	Hunger Restored
Melon (Slice)	Melon		0.33 shank per slice
Mashed Melon	Melon		.33 shank
Milk		Milking Cows	1 shank Cures the player of any Status effects
Chocolate Milk	Milk, Cocoa Powder		1.5 shanks Cures the player of any Status Effects
Raw Fish		Produced by fishing with a baited Fishing Rod or Dynamite.	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	Raw Fish		2 shanks
Raw Egg	Egg	Throwing Eggs against a wall or floor.	1 shank Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Fried Egg	Raw Egg		1.5 shanks
Raw Scrambled Egg	Raw Egg, Milk		1.5 shanks Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.
Cooked Scrambled Egg	Raw Scrambled Egg		2 shanks
Raw Mushroom Omelet	Raw Egg, Brown Mushroom		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	Raw Mushroom Omelet		2 shanks
Ham and Eggs	Cooked Porkchop, Fried Egg or Poached Egg		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	Ingredients	Input » Output	Hunger Restored
Chocolate	Cocoa Powder, Sugar, Milk		1 shank
Cream of Mushroom	Brown Mushroom, Milk,Bowl		1.5 shanks
Poached Egg	Raw Egg		1.5 shanks
Chowder	Cooked Fish, Milk, Bowl		2.5 shanks
Kibble	Bone Meal, Rotten Flesh, Sugar		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	Any Food, Dung		.5 shank 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. These crops give the player access to the best foods available in Better than Wolves.

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Hunger Restored
Bread Dough	Flour		Inedible, bakes into a Bread
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 shank
Poisonous Potato		Unable to be collected in Survival	.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 shank
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 are unusual foods from other sources, that are not typically used in the player's regular diet.

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Hunger Restored
Raw Mystery Meat		Dropped by villagers, zombie villagers, and players. Villagers and zombie villagers drop 1-3, while players drop a variable amount depending on their fat level. A player whose soul is bound to a Soulforged steel Beacon will not drop mystery meat, only Rotten Flesh.	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	Raw 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	Liver Of The Beast		3 Shanks
Apple		Traded with Villagers or looted from Chests.	.5 shank
Golden Apple	Apple, Gold Ingot		.5 shank Gives Regeneration for 5 seconds, restoring 2 hearts, and Absorption for 2min.
Enchanted Golden Apple	Apple, Block of Gold		.5 shank Gives Regeneration IV for 30 seconds, Resistance IV for 5 minutes and Fire Resistance IV for 5 minutes.
Golden Carrot	Carrot, Gold Nuggets		.5 shank

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.