# Food Overhaul<\/p>\n
This is an overhaul of the food system. Eating food no longer fills the hunger bar or gives saturation. Each food item now grants a corresponding status effect instead.
\nThese effects can grant attribute modifiers like increased health, more stamina or resistance against frost damage.<\/p>\n
This gives players a real choice, when they decide what combination of food is the best for a given situation, which in my opinion is much more interesting than eating golden carrots all day.<\/p>\n
> Food Overhaul adds the back end system for this new food system, but it does not add gameplay content on its own.<\/p>\n
This ensures that mod pack authors have the most possible control over how exactly their food items are balanced.<\/p>\n
## How does it work?<\/p>\n
Items in Minecraft can apply status effects to the player when consumed. Food Overhaul uses that functionality and simply checks if one of those status effects is a “food effect”.
\nIf an item grants such an effect, the item can only be consumed when the player does not already have that food effect.<\/p>\n
> A status effect is considered a food effect when it is in the “foodoverhaul:food_effects” mob_effect tag.<\/p>\n
Food Overhaul supports two different item types, consumables and potions. They are defined by having specific data components, namely “minecraft:consumable” and “minecraft:potion_contents”, respectively.<\/p>\n
## What prevents a player from eating every available food?<\/p>\n
Each player can only have a limited amount of food status effects active at a time. It’s not possible to eat food when that limit is reached.
\nThe limit is controlled by an entity attribute called **_foodoverhaul:max_food_effects_** and its default value is defined in the server config.<\/p>\n
The player doesn’t have to wait until an effect is completely gone to refresh it.
\nWhen a food effect is running out, it’s corresponding food item can be consumed again. The exact threshold after which this is possible is set in the server config.<\/p>\n
Food Overhaul adds the “foodoverhaul:remove_effects_in_tag” consume effect typ. It works very similar to the “minecraft:remove_effects” consume effect, but also works with status effect tags.<\/p>\n
> This can be used to remove all active food effects.<\/p>\n
## Customization<\/p>\n
### For 26.1+<\/p>\n
Currently, no data-driven solution exists, that would allow modifying default data components of items.<\/p>\n
### For 1.21.1:<\/p>\n
Food effects can be added to any item (even modded) by vanilla methods (mainly commands) or by using third party mods.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/item-components and https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/default-components both allow setting the default components of items via data packs. <\/p>\n
This gives mod pack authors \/ players the option to use their own food effects.<\/p>\n
## Food Blocks<\/p>\n
Food blocks can be interacted with to grant a status effect to the player. When that status effect is a food effect, interaction is only possible when the player doesn’t already have the effect.<\/p>\n
Food Overhaul provides a simple Java API for add-on mods to create food blocks.<\/p>\n
## Food Display Block<\/p>\n
The Food Display Block can hold and display up to 4 items. When these items have the “minecraft:consumable” component, they can be consumed by interacting with the display block. The usual checks for existing food effects and hunger are applied.<\/p>\n
The Food Display Block can be configured by creative mode players via a config screen.<\/p>\n
## Just want to play?<\/p>\n
Food Overhaul – Vanilla Foods adds food effects to vanilla items.<\/p>\n
## Hunger and saturation<\/p>\n
Food Overhaul does not remove these systems. They can be used in combination with the food effects.<\/p>\n
By default, food items without a food effect can be eaten like normal. This can be disabled in the server config.<\/p>\n
> If the food system should be completely gone from your mod pack, maybe take a look at my mod Health Regeneration Overhaul, which can completely disable vanillas hunger system including saturation and exhaustion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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