**Melancholic Hunger & HUD** aims to seamlessly integrate the classic health regeneration system from before Beta 1.8 versions into the modern game.
\nIt also auto-hides the experience bar from the HUD to match the look of those old versions while keeping the exp bar accessible.<\/p>\n
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## Main Features<\/p>\n
1. **Hunger system is removed** \u2014 Health regenerates directly from eating food
\n2. **Gradual health regeneration** \u2014 Compensates for food stacking in modern versions. Regen speed depends on what types of food you eat. Eating various types of food gives a cumulative effect that greatly increases the speed of regeneration (similar to the great mod BTA!)
\n3. **Smaller food stack sizes** \u2014 Prevents players from carrying an infinite supply of health in their inventory
\n4. **Quality-of-life improvements** \u2014 The HUD displays the number of hearts that can be replenished by the currently held food item, as well as the number of hearts that are already regenerating
\n5. **Health-limited sprinting** \u2014 Sprinting is only available when the player’s health is higher than the set minimum limit
\n6. **Removed hunger effect** \u2014 The hunger effect is replaced with the poison effect with a shorter duration
\n7. **Instant eating** \u2014 You can make the eating animation instantaneous (disabled by default)
\n8. **The armor bar is on the right side, and it’s drawn right-to-left, the experience bar is hidden** \u2014 Brings back the nostalgic, clean HUD appearance
\n9. **Smart experience bar** \u2014 The experience bar only appears when exp is being gained. Also when the player opens their inventory, or when interacting with workstations that use experience points
\n10. **Smooth animation** \u2014 Clean appearance and disappearance of the experience bar
\n11. **Option for hiding the locator bar on the client side** \u2014 If you don’t like it being constantly visible (disabled by default)
\n12. **Extended food item tooltips** \u2014 Number of hearts that can be replenished and regeneration speed are displayed on the tooltips for all food items (including modded items)
\n13. **Server support** \u2014 You can run the mod on a modded server instance (clients would have to have the mod as well)<\/p>\n
All features are toggleable through the GUI config, allowing you to customize the mod to your liking (requires Mod Menu installed to access the GUI on Fabric).<\/p>\n
### Server Features<\/p>\n
1. Some options (those that only affect the appearance of the HUD) are client-side, so each player can set and change them how they like
\n2. Other options (those that affect game mechanics) are server-side, so the server enforces them to all players. Server operators can use the mod’s GUI to update the configuration on the server. The updated config will be sent to all players automatically<\/p>\n
## Compatibility<\/p>\n
**Warning:** Most mods that modify the hunger system or the HUD are very likely to be incompatible with this mod.<\/p>\n
### Nostalgic Tweaks
\nThis mod is compatible with Nostalgic Tweaks by Adrenix.
\nOverlapping config settings will be synchronized automatically.<\/p>\n
### Farmer’s Delight
\nThis mod is compatible with Farmer’s Delight by vectorwing, and its Fabric port Farmer’s Delight Refabricated.
\nThere are changes to how Comfort and Nourishment effects work when hunger is disabled:
\n– **Comfort** heals when there is currently no health regeneration from consumed food items (almost the same as standard Farmer’s Delight but it’s no longer dependent on saturation)
\n– **Nourishment** gives health boost (3 additional hearts by default) and increases health regeneration speed for all food items (2 times faster by default). Both features can be modified or disabled through the GUI config<\/p>\n
### Resource Packs
\nThis mod should be compatible with most resourcepacks, although there may be some small issues with the HUD.<\/p>\n
### Compatibility List
\n| Mod | Compatibility |
\n| ——– | ——- |
\n| Nostalgic Tweaks | \u2705 |
\n| Farmer’s Delight | \u2705 |
\n| Farmer’s Delight Refabricated | \u2705 |
\n| Raised | \u2705 |
\n| ImmediatelyFast | \u2705 |
\n| AppleSkin | \u274c |
\n| Overflowing Bars | \u274c |
\n| Colorful Hearts | \u274c |
\n| Dynamic RPG Resource Bars | \u274c |
\n| RPG-HUD | \u274c |
\n| BetterHP | \u274c |<\/p>\n
Mods with a \u2705 are specifically made compatible by me.<\/p>\n
Mods with a \u274c are known to have compatibility issues.<\/p>\n
If you really need some mod to work correctly and you know exactly which mod causes incompatibility, you can submit an issue on github. I will try to make it compatible.<\/p>\n
## Dependencies<\/p>\n
These library mods are required for the mod to run:<\/p>\n
1. Fabric API (only on Fabric)
\n2. YetAnotherConfigLib (on Fabric, NeoForge and Forge)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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