Hunger
Hunger is a mechanic translated directly from vanilla Minecraft, adding a touch of difficulty to the game.
Hunger
Hunger is measured in drumsticks, with each drumstick being 2 hunger points (similar to hearts) Being at 3 drumsticks or below will result in inability to sprint, dodge or use hand crank. (Notably, you can use multipurpose stone anvil even when dying from starvation) Not having a full hunger bar will result in inability to sleep, even if you're half a drumstick away from being full.
Powered by AppleSkin mod, you can also see your saturation and exhaustion
Saturation
Saturation is a mechanic from vanilla Minecraft that regulates the amount of health a food restores. It is represented by yellow glow around hunger drumsticks and can be decimal unlike hunger. While the player has any saturation left, it will be spent instead of hunger points. In Rebirth of the Night, it sees very little usage, because most types of food grant less than a drumstick of saturation per consumption, which is not enough to restore a single heart, forcing the player to rely on bandages or medkits to quickly restore health. (There are foods that restore a full saturation bar, but they are way more expensive than a medkit or instant health potion)
Exhaustion
Exhaustion is a mechanic from vanilla minecraft that regulates how fast you lose hunger. Powered by the same old AppleSkin mod, it is shown by transparent grey checkerboard pattern behind hunger bar. Once it reaches the end of the bar, one point of hunger or saturation is depleted. There are many things that increase exhaustion, notably:
- Sprinting
- Breaking a block
- Jumping
- Swimming
- Jumping while sprinting
On more technical side: The initial exhaustion value is zero. When it reaches 4 or higher, the total amount of exhaustion is decreased by 4 (Which means that it can overflow) and one point is subtracted from hunger or saturation.
Well fed
This effect is given when player eats a food item, the duration of the effect is determined by how good the eaten food is. Notably, it can reach up to hours if players eats high saturation foods very often.
Whatever this effect does is unbeknownst to me, someone please add it here.
Tips & Trivia
- Theres a "Saturation" effect, that restores both hunger and saturation. It is not possible to acquire without using commands,
- However in newer versions, you can easily get it by eating a suspicious stew made out of blue orchid or dandelion, making suspicious stew one of the best food items in the entire game.
- You can eat glue and soap. They restore a whole drumstick of saturation, ironically making them some of the best food items in the entire game for getting saturation, outclassed only by high quality dishes.
- Campfires from Pyrotech mod let you eat foods at full hunger bar, which lets you easily fill your saturation to the brim as long as you have foods that restore more than half a saturation drumstick.
- Gardens from Pam's Harvestcraft are a great way to fill your hunger bar, even in mid game! (To not clutter your inventory, you can collect them by holding shift)
- Many good hunger restoring foods like baked carrot or roasted mushroom can be made only in smoker, making smoker a really good early game investement.
- Cutting prime beef into 4 steaks is 100% worth the time investement, because they restore the exact same amount of hunger and can still be used in all the recipes, resulting in net gain.
- This also applies to porkchops, however bacon only restors 1 hunger drumstick, so while you do get more hunger restored, it takes noticeably more time to eat them.
- Some foods restore less than sum of their ingredients, or exactly the same amount despite taking more effort to prepare. Notably, baking sweet potatoes and cooking carrots anywhere but in the smoker does literally nothing but waste your time.