Tasting Trails

Turn every meal into an adventure!

Tasting Trails is a lightweight Fabric mod that rewards players for discovering and eating different foods. Every three unique foods you try grants two permanent bonus hearts, encouraging exploration, farming, cooking, and experimentation with food from other mods.

Features

Gain 2 permanent hearts for every 3 unique foods
Earn up to 10 bonus hearts by default
Progress is saved between game sessions
Bonus hearts remain after death
Supports vanilla and modded foods
Optional chat notifications for new foods
Configurable progression and maximum health bonus
Works in single-player and multiplayer

Commands

/tastingtrails — View your progress and next reward
/tastingtrails list — View all discovered foods
/tastingtrails reset — Reset your progress
/tastingtrails reset <player> — Reset another player’s progress; operator permission required

Configuration

After the first launch, the configuration file is created at:

config/tasting-trails.json

Server owners can change:

Foods required per milestone
Hearts awarded per milestone
Maximum number of bonus hearts
New-food chat notifications

Requirements

Minecraft Java Edition 26.1.2
Fabric Loader 0.19.3 or newer
Fabric API
Java 25

Install Tasting Trails and Fabric API in your mods folder. For multiplayer, install the mod on both the server and connected clients.

Compatibility

Tasting Trails recognizes food through Minecraft’s standard food component, allowing it to work automatically with many food and cooking mods.

Original Project Notice

Tasting Trails is an independently developed mod with an original name and implementation. It does not contain code, artwork, or other assets from Spice of Life: Carrot Edition.

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