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Modest Meals

A vanilla enhancing mod that expands the food system with dynamic meals, while also adding stamina.

Modest Meals

NeoForge Supported

Modest Meals is a vanilla-style overhaul of Minecraft's food system. The hunger bar is replaced with a stamina bar, food heals you directly as you digest it, and you can cook your own meals out of almost any ingredient.

The Modest Meals HUD


Features

No more hunger!

  • Food heals you gradually as it digests. Light snacks digest quickly, hearty meals heal for longer.
  • Hold a food item to see how many hearts it will restore.
  • Tooltips show what a food restores and what it adds to a meal.
  • The vanilla Hunger effect becomes Drained, which slows stamina recovery. You can also turn it off or swap it for another effect.

Holding a sandwich shows the hearts it will restore

Stamina!

  • Sprinting drains stamina.
  • Use it up and you become exhausted, which prevents sprinting until the bar has fully refilled.
  • Stamina refills on its own after a short pause. How fast it refills while you're moving can be configured.
  • Some foods and effects change your stamina:
    • Endurance gives you a bigger stamina bar.
    • Nourishment stops stamina from draining.
    • Exhausted stops stamina from refilling.
  • Optionally, health can regenerate naturally while your stamina is high, like vanilla saturation healing.

Meals!

Combine ingredients to make a meal. Each meal's health, stamina, digestion time, and effects come from what you put in it, and its texture and name change to match.

For example, a sandwich made with beetroot gives Strength, so it's called a Mighty Sandwich.

Crafting a Mighty Sandwich

  • Ingredients can add effects like Strength, Haste, Night Vision, or Water Breathing. More of an ingredient means a stronger, longer-lasting effect.
  • Each effect gives the meal a name prefix, like Hasty or Tidal.
  • Ingredients that don't belong in a meal make a Dubious meal. It still fills you up but gives no effects.
  • Some ingredient combinations make a mod's own dish instead.
    • For example, a beef patty, leafy greens, and tomato in a sandwich gives you Farmer's Delight's Hamburger.
  • Pizzas can be placed down and eaten slice by slice.
  • With EMI installed, every meal has a recipe page showing which ingredients work.

A pizza placed in the world

EMI's Meal Crafting page

Customisable

  • Nearly everything is configurable in-game with YACL, from digestion speed and stamina to the HUD layout. You can even turn the hunger replacement off entirely.
  • The Food Effect Editor lets you view and tweak every food's stats and effects, then save the changes to a datapack.
    • On a server, the editor shows that server's food data (read-only).
  • All food stats, ingredients, meal types, and meal effects are loaded from datapacks, so modpacks can freely change any of them.

The config screen

The Food Effect Editor


Dependencies

Required:

Optional integrations:

Mod Needed for
Farmer's Delight Cooking-pot meals, Farmer's Delight dishes in meal recipes, Nourishment stops stamina draining
Cultural Delights Ice cream, made in a cold vat
EMI Recipe pages for meal crafting, cooking, and chilling
Cold Sweat, Thermoo (Frostiful, Scorchful) Spicy and Chilly meals give cold and heat resistance
Shield Expansion Holding up a shield drains stamina, and a successful parry restores some
Reliable Gliders Gliding drains stamina, and an exhausted player can't glide
Reliable Remover Meal recipes skip items that have been removed

Incompatible:

  • Melancholic Hunger & HUD: Modest Meals already includes all of its features.
  • Nostalgic Tweaks (partially): its stamina system overlaps heavily with Modest Meals', so disable one of them.

License


Credits

Art by Baisylia!

Mod logo by Raspmary!

Item textures adapted from Klei's Matcha Flavoured resource pack.

Stamina and health system adapted from Nostalgic Tweaks (LGPL-3.0-only) and Melancholic Hunger & HUD (LGPL-3.0-only).


discord-plural github-plural

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