📢 Hunger Bound – Major Mod Update Released!
This update brings a wide range of bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and powerful new features to enhance your hardcore survival experience.
🔧 Fixes
Fixed logout exploit where players healed after disconnecting.
Banned/unbanned players now respawn at proper bed or world spawn, not death location.
Fixed command permissions for standard players (Essential commands togglable in config).
🌟 New Features Death Chest Coordinates: When a player is banned, their chest location is now broadcast in chat.
Variety Bonus Logging: Eating 2+ unique foods now logs the player’s bonus stats.
/foods Command: View a personal list of uneaten food types via /foods.
Totem of Undying Protection: On a third death, if held, the totem prevents a ban.
Auto Ban Timer Scaling: Each new ban doubles in length — 6hr → 12hr → 24hr → 48hr → 96hr, and so on.
Colored Name Tags: (Essential commands togglable in config)
0 deaths = Green
1 death = Yellow
2+ deaths = Red
Name resets to green after unban
We're still actively developing features for Season 1. Your feedback directly shapes the future — keep it coming!
Hunger Bound v1.0.2-1.21.6 Release Date: June 20, 2025 Game Version: Minecraft 1.21.6 Loader: Fabric
🚨 Major Features ⚰️ Death-Ban System Players are now automatically banned after reaching a configurable death limit. This introduces permanent consequences for repeated failure:
Fully configurable in config.json
Upon being banned:
A player head is placed in a chest at the death location
A sign is attached showing:
Player's name
Heart count at death
Total unique foods eaten
Days survived (based on playtime)
Adds tension and permanence to long survival runs
🔁 Auto-Unban System Banned players are automatically unbanned after a delay (configurable in milliseconds). This allows players to return after a “cooldown” period:
Works offline and survives server restarts
Profiles are stored persistently to ensure reliability
Unban delay is fully customizable
💀 Orb of Revival A renamed Eye of Ender crafted with a player head can revive a banned player:
Clears all their death, health, and food progress
Resets them as if they were a fresh player
Sends a global revival announcement
Plays a totem-like sound effect upon use
Awards the Second Chances advancement
⚙️ Config Additions Located in config/foodhearts/config.json:
json Copy Edit { "banAfterDeathsEnabled": true, "banAfterDeathsLimit": 3, "autoUnbanDelayMillis": 86400000 } banAfterDeathsEnabled: Toggle death-ban system
banAfterDeathsLimit: Max deaths before ban
autoUnbanDelayMillis: Milliseconds until auto-unban (default 1 day)
✅ Fixes & Improvements Fixed: Revival now properly resets persistent death count
Improved: All revival logic now uses PlayerDataManager and PersistentState
Improved: Advancement syncing and heart reapplication is clean across deaths and revivals
Fixed: Totem sound now reliably plays on orb use
Streamlined: Ban logic now reuses proper reset logic from respawn system
🔧 Technical Notes Fully updated for Minecraft 1.21.6
Works on vanilla clients (no mods required)
Designed for hardcore, anarchy, or challenge SMPs
Lightweight and multiplayer-safe
HUNGER BOUND – Variety, Punishment, and Hardcore Update The challenge just leveled up. Here's what's new in our latest patch:
Food Variety Buffs (NEW) Eat multiple different foods in a row to unlock short but powerful buffs:
3 unique: Haste
5 unique: Haste + Regeneration
7 unique: Haste + Regeneration + Strength Buffs only trigger once per cooldown — then your streak resets!
Food Repetition Penalties (NEW) Overeating the same food now comes with consequences:
3x in a row: Hunger
5x in a row: Hunger + Nausea
7x in a row: Hunger + Nausea + Poison Stop being boring — mix up your diet!
ADVANCEMENT: A Healthy Obsession Eat 40 unique foods to max your health at 42 HP. Die once? You lose all progress and start over at 2 HP.
HARDCORE CHALLENGE: How Am I Still Alive? (NEW) Earn A Healthy Obsession without dying even once to unlock this rare hidden advancement. Only the strongest will survive — and only one can be the first. First to achieve it earns the Discord title: Server's First – How Am I Still Alive?
Bug Fixes & Improvements
Variety buff cooldown now applies correctly across all tiers
Max health properly capped at 42 HP
Player streaks and food history reset properly on death
Full compatibility with multiplayer, rejoin events, and world swaps
Still testing — if you break it, you're helping us! Now get out there and chew your way to greatness.