Renourished Delight

How it works

Normally in Minecraft, food just refills your hunger bar and saturation. With this mod, every food item you eat gets its own slot (up to a limit you can configure) and while it's active, it gives you bonuses like extra max health, speed or other attribute boosts. Each slot counts down over time and drops off once its duration runs out, so you'll want to keep eating to keep your buffs going instead of eating once and forgetting about it.

Different foods give different bonuses and last different amounts of time, so eating a variety of food actually matters now instead of just grabbing whatever gives the most hunger points. Food attributes works for every mod out of the box, but you can always change that on the config page.

Nourishment

Eat with every slot full and every active food still above 95% of its duration and you get Nourishment, lasting as long as your shortest active food. It speeds up natural health regen, stops the extra food drain that normally comes with the Hunger effect, and strips every harmful effect off you — both the ones you already had and any applied while it lasts. Eating a food you already have active tops it back up, and eating a new food while full replaces whichever slot has the least time left, so you are never blocked from eating.

Nutrition Decay

Eating the same thing over and over stops working as well. Every time you eat a food it decays by 1%, and that comes straight off how long its bonuses last. The bonuses themselves keep their full strength — you just hold them for less time. Keep eating it and it keeps dropping. Nothing resets it on its own.

What wins it back is variety. The mod remembers the last 3 different foods you ate, and anything that falls off that list recovers 1% every time you eat something else. So a food you have not touched in a while slowly climbs back to full strength while you are eating other things.

The practical effect is that three food sources is not enough. Rotating through exactly your slot count keeps the same foods on the recently eaten list permanently, so they never recover — you need a wider pantry than you have slots. A food never drops below 10% of its configured duration, so a favourite you lean on too hard runs short but never useless.

Set doNutritionDecay to false to turn the whole system off; the rate, the window and the floor are all game rules too. Topping up a food you already have active counts as eating it, so it decays the same as taking a fresh slot does and tops back up to its reduced duration rather than its full one. Each player has their own values and their own recently eaten list, and both are saved with the world.

Game Rules

The mod adds fifteen game rules for server-wide customization:

Game Rule	Default	Description
renourisheddelight:playerStartingHearts	20	Base max health before any food bonuses
renourisheddelight:maxConsumableFood	3	Maximum number of foods active at once
renourisheddelight:foodDrainRate	100	How fast active foods tick down, in percent (50 is half speed, 0 never drains)
renourisheddelight:regenHealthTickInterval	60	Ticks between natural health regeneration (three times faster while nourished)
renourisheddelight:regenDelayAfterDamage	60	Ticks to wait after taking damage before natural regen can resume
renourisheddelight:nutritionDecayRate	1	Percent of its duration a food decays by each time you eat it, and recovers once it leaves the recently eaten list
renourisheddelight:nutritionDecayWindow	3	How many different foods you must eat before an earlier one starts recovering from its nutrition decay
renourisheddelight:nutritionDecayFloor	10	Lowest percent of its configured duration a food can be worn down to
renourisheddelight:doNutritionDecay	false	Whether eating the same food repeatedly shortens how long its bonuses last
renourisheddelight:doSleepFoodDrain	true	Whether skipping the night drains food, scaled by how much of the night was skipped, for every player
renourisheddelight:doNourishment	false	Whether eating with every slot full and every active food above 95% grants the Nourishment effect
renourisheddelight:doStarvation	true	Applies the configured starvation effects while a player has no active food

Food can always be eaten. A food you already have active is topped back up in the slot it already occupies, a food you do not have active takes a free slot, and if there is no free slot it replaces the one with the least time left. Holding a food you already have active pulses its bar in the HUD to show where it will land.

The Hunger effect, health regen and sleeping all drain food at a fixed cost scaled by foodDrainRate, and natural regen is disabled while a player has no active food.

Configuration

All settings are also editable in-game: open the pause menu (or ModMenu on Fabric / the mod list on NeoForge) and pick Renourished Delight to get a screen.

The configs are also available as config files:

Client Config

Option	Default	Description
foodBarOffsetX	0	Horizontal pixel offset for the food display UI
foodBarOffsetY	0	Vertical pixel offset for the food display UI
goldenPaletteItem	minecraft:golden_carrot	Item ID used to sample the color palette for the golden-effect tint
showFoodDisplayInInventory	false	Whether to render the active food items panel next to the inventory screen
clipOddMaxHealthHeart	true	Whether to clip the last heart's unfillable half when max health is odd, instead of showing a half heart that can never fill
compactHealthBar	false	Whether to draw health as a single row of 10 hearts that fill proportionally to max health, instead of stacking extra heart rows

Common Config

Option	Default	Description
config.foods	[]	Per-item attribute bonuses. Only items you customize are listed; anything left out falls back to a max health bonus derived from its nutrition and saturation. An entry is the full definition for that item, so listing only a swim speed bonus grants only swim speed
config.multipliers	[]	Per-attribute duration multipliers applied when a bonus is granted. Attributes left out use 1.0; stored per-item durations are unaffected
config.starvation	slowness, mining fatigue, weakness	Effects applied in stages while a player has no active food

Commands

Both need permission level 2, so operators and single-player worlds with cheats on.

/renourisheddelight clear [<targets>] empties a player's food bar, dropping every active food and its bonuses. With no target it clears your own.

/renourisheddelight decay reset [<targets>] [<item>] clears accumulated nutrition decay, putting the affected foods back to their full duration. With no target it resets your own, and naming an item resets only that food instead of everything.

Compatibility

Works out of the box with vanilla food and is built to play nicely with other food mods, including Farmer's Delight and Neapolitan. Presets for supported mods ship with the mod itself and can be tweaked per-item from the config screen.

Feedback & Issues

Found a bug or have a suggestion? Open an issue on the GitHub repo.