Balanced Diet Challenge

The challenge tracks which foods a player has eaten and blocks natural health regeneration until enough distinct foods are logged. Eating four unique foods permanently grants one red heart. The player starts with ten hearts in total, one red and nine yellow absorption hearts, and absorption hearts regenerate naturally once lost. Balanced Diet is a vanilla achievement that the mod hooks into, so completing it removes the regeneration restriction.

A two-mode datapack setup lets players switch between challenge mode and tracker mode during play with commands. Tracker mode keeps the food log and achievement progress without the regeneration limits. Progress toward the advancement carries over regardless of mode, and each player is tracked individually, so one player's mode does not affect others. A datapack-based tracker also recognizes foods the player has eaten before the datapack was added. The server runs the challenge, while players may add the mod but are not required to install it. Balanced Diet Challenge is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later and is open source.