## Stews: Rebalanced
\nStews: Rebalanced replaces the old hunger bar system with a cooking mechanic and various well thought-out meals, each with it’s own purpose. This encourages food diversity, and makes hunger an engaging (but not too challenging) gameplay mechanic.<\/p>\n
_For the Japanese localisation, install this as well. \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u3067\u4f7f\u3046\u306b\u306f\u3001\u3053\u3061\u3089\u306e\u30ea\u30fc\u30bd\u30fc\u30b9\u30d1\u30c3\u30af\u3082\u30a4\u30f3\u30b9\u30c8\u30fc\u30eb\u3057\u3066\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\u3002_<\/p>\n
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Food now directly affects your health in various ways. Different meals will give different effects, such as directly healing you, or giving you a maximum health boost. **Different meals have different stats depending on the difficulty of obtaining them and how easy it is to farm**, thus making early-game foods distinct from late-game foods. This ensures you don’t simply start a farm on day 1 and live off it for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n
It also encourages you to decide on what food to carry on adventures depending on how long you expect your expedition will be; better foods generally don’t last as long. This prevents you from relying on just one food source.<\/p>\n
You now start with 4 hearts and cook meals to increase your max health. Natural regeneration is disabled and you must eat to heal. This encourages you to cook without punishing you if you don’t; even if you don’t eat, if you’re really skilled and don’t take any damage, you aren’t hindered.<\/p>\n
_I suggest using a resource pack such as No Hunger Bar by Killerqu00 (this resource pack is set as outdated however I tested it on 1.21.11 and seems to work) to visually remove the hunger bar, since it no longer does anything._<\/p>\n
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\n### Cooking Meals
\nFood items now act as ingredients instead of consumables. If you place a cauldron with water in it above a heat source (such as a campfire) and throw the correct ingredients into it, it will boil for a few seconds with a sound effect before turning into a meal.<\/p>\n
_Note: you must put in the exact amount of ingredients. If you put too many or too little in, the cooking process won’t start._<\/p>\n
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### Wiki
\nVisit The WIki for more information, and meals available.<\/p>\n
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\n### Recipe and Drop Changes
\nCauldrons now use stone slabs to craft instead of iron (similar to a composter).<\/p>\n
Beetroot soup, rabbit stew and mushroom stew can no longer be crafted, and are made with the new cooking system instead.<\/p>\n
Bushes sometimes drop carrots (so you don’t have to find a village to get them).<\/p>\n
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\n### Compatability
\nLikely incompatible with mods or datapacks that add their own food items, however it probably isn’t too difficult to add custom recipes that involve those new items.<\/p>\n
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\n### Modpacks \/ Crediting
\nFeel free to use in any modpacks.<\/p>\n
Please don’t reupload to other sites without proper credit and a link to this page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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