AutoEat 3.0.0

AutoEat 3.0.0 is a major update focused on smarter food selection, expanded safety controls, improved compatibility, and a refined settings experience.

Added

• Added the Safe Survival preset.
• Added the AFK Fishing preset.
• Added hunger-waste minimization.
• Added a configurable maximum allowed hunger waste.
• Added configurable hunger-waste and saturation scoring weights.
• Added an option to prefer foods that exactly match the player’s missing hunger.
• Added emergency overfill support for low-health situations.
• Added separate melee and ranged hostile-detection radii.
• Added a configurable hostile vertical-detection range.
• Added optional line-of-sight checks for hostile mobs.
• Added a configurable hostile scan interval.
• Added support for manually configured ranged-mob registry IDs.
• Added support for ignored hostile entity registry IDs.
• Added automatic detection for supported modded ranged mobs.
• Added Water Breathing checks for underwater safety.
• Added a configurable minimum remaining Water Breathing duration.
• Added separate controls for riding living entities and vehicles.
• Added backpack-related configuration and interface options for future integrations.
• Added Quiet Mode to disable all AutoEat status overlays.
• Added optional pause-status overlays.
• Added pause notifications for eating and slot-switch cooldowns.
• Added a reset-confirmation dialog to the Food List screen.
• Added detailed tooltips to Advanced Settings.
• Added the Super food-list filter.
• Added improved search matching for item names, registry IDs, namespaces, and paths.
• Added support for detecting compatible food items from modded namespaces.

Changed

• Redesigned the Food List and Advanced Settings interfaces.
• Reorganized Advanced Settings into clearer configuration categories.
• Expanded the preset system with additional gameplay profiles and updated preset values.
• Improved food scoring to consider nutrition, saturation, hunger waste, exact hunger matches, premium foods, and emergency conditions.
• Improved emergency and critical-health food selection.
• Emergency selection now checks the best available hotbar food before held items.
• Improved handling of premium and golden foods based on the player’s health.
• Improved dangerous-food and low-saturation filtering.
• Improved main-hand, offhand, and hotbar food-selection priority.
• Improved equal-score handling so the lowest hotbar slot is selected consistently.
• Improved hostile detection for melee, ranged, vertically separated, and modded enemies.
• Improved underwater safety behavior when Water Breathing is active.
• Improved riding controls by separating living mounts from vehicles.
• Improved pause ordering and interaction between movement, combat, GUI, input, safety checks, and cooldowns.
• Improved automatic resume behavior after closing a GUI or releasing a manual use action.
• Improved status-message deduplication for repeated pause conditions.
• Improved slot restoration so a manually selected slot is not overwritten.
• Improved configuration loading with value clamping and safer defaults for malformed or missing values.
• Improved compatibility with legacy blacklist configurations.
• Improved migration from older pause-on-hit settings.
• Updated default configuration and preset behavior.
• Updated compatibility for supported game and loader versions.

Fixed

• Fixed accidental block placement after automatic eating is interrupted.
• Fixed the use key potentially remaining held after AutoEat stops.
• Fixed manual right-click and use-key input conflicting with automatic eating.
• Fixed hotbar restoration overriding a slot manually selected by the player.
• Fixed automatic eating continuing in unsupported game modes.
• Fixed runtime state carrying over after death, respawning, disconnecting, or changing worlds.
• Fixed automatic eating attempting to operate while fishing.
• Fixed GUI pause and resume inconsistencies.
• Fixed eating, clicking, hit, placement, and slot-switch cooldowns interacting incorrectly.
• Fixed automatic eating restarting before anti-placement suppression had completed.
• Fixed equal-scoring foods producing inconsistent hotbar selection.
• Fixed critical-health handling when no premium food is available.
• Fixed hostile detection around vertical-range and line-of-sight boundaries.
• Fixed malformed configuration values being used outside their supported ranges.
• Fixed legacy blacklist configurations not loading correctly.
• Fixed incomplete migration of older pause-on-hit configuration keys.
• Fixed search, scrolling, scrollbar dragging, and filter interaction issues.
• Fixed interface elements being rendered on incorrect layers.
• Fixed interaction being possible behind the reset-confirmation dialog.
• Fixed tooltip, toast, and modal layering in the settings screens.
• Fixed potential null-state problems during player and world transitions.

Removed

• Removed the legacy Help/Guide modal from the settings workflow.

Notes

• AutoEat remains a client-side-only mod.
• Existing configuration files remain supported and are migrated where necessary.
• Backpack settings currently provide configuration and interface support only.
• AutoEat does not currently search backpacks or automatically extract food from them.
• Food consumption currently uses the main hand, offhand, and hotbar.
• The legacy Safe Radius setting remains available, while hostile detection uses separate melee and ranged radius settings.
• Requirements depend on the specific AutoEat build being downloaded.
• Backing up the existing configuration before updating is recommended.