Metabolic Delight & Hunger Overhaul
Metabolic Delight & Hunger Overhaul replaces the vanilla hunger bar with a stomach queue, so food is sorted by nutrient and digested over time.
What it does
Players eat food that is placed into a stomach queue and broken down into carbohydrates, proteins, greens, fats and potions, rot. Carbohydrates move to the front for fast energy, fats sink to the bottom for delayed use, and proteins and greens settle in between. A hard Stomach Capacity attribute limits how much can be eaten, and the engine rejects food once that limit is reached.
Calorie cost is calculated tick by tick from actual movement: standing still costs a flat idle rate, while walking, swimming and sprinting raise the cost with horizontal speed. The Stomach Efficiency attribute sets the final cost of each action. Sleep is no longer free, because the engine estimates the calories a full night takes, about 8000 ticks, and blocks entering a bed when the body lacks the energy to rest through it.
Every player and the server need a copy of the mod. Files are published for NeoForge 1.21.1 only, with 1.0.3 as the latest build from 2026-03-06. It is not open source and is released under All rights reserved.
Key features
Stomach queue digestion
Food enters a queue where nutrients are sorted by biological function and digested in a set order.
Tick-based calorie drain
Each action drains calories according to real horizontal movement and entity state, not an arbitrary counter.
Stomach capacity limit
A physical capacity attribute caps the food the stomach accepts, so eating stops when it is full.
Sleep calorie toll
Sleeping through the night costs a calculated amount of energy, and digesting calories can lower that estimated cost.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Survival players and server owners who want hunger to work as a system of nutrients and energy rather than a timer. Players who prefer the simple vanilla bar may find the queue and drain rules a large change.
Questions
Does Metabolic Delight & Hunger Overhaul need to be installed on the server?
Which loader and version does the mod support?
Can a player sleep through the night without calories?
In the catalog
Metabolic Delight & Hunger Overhaul is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,596 Food mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
I replaced the vanilla hunger and health regeneration systems in Minecraft with a standardized metabolic engine. All actions follow a strict caloric cost calculated on a tick-by-tick basis, and all consumable items are physically broken down into specific macronutrients. I introduced a dynamic stomach queue and a new…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/buckshots-metabolic-rework
- Owner
- Buckshot_Freak
- Published
- 2026-02-18
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-03-06
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15