Bulking
by neirenoir
Bulking adds a food system to Minecraft that splits eating into snacks and meals, and it works through the Diet mod to track nutrition.
What it does
Bulking extends the Diet mod, so food is judged by what it supplies rather than only how much hunger it fills. Snacks are small foods that can be found without much effort, such as apples, carrots and sweet berries. They restore a little health right away, which is why they are kept in the hotbar, since health is otherwise slow to return. Meals are elaborate dishes meant to be eaten slowly, often at home or beside a campfire, and they contribute nutrition values that help recover lost health along with other effects.
The default Diet suite offers attribute boosts and long-lasting effects that depend on how diverse a player's diet is. Bulking adds a Sumptuous Feast effect: a player who goes to bed with a full belly wakes up feeling better, and for the 20 minutes of Minecraft day that follow, stats are raised by 10 percent. The boost is configurable through a data pack and also applies to stats from other modded foods.
Installation requires Architectury API, Diet, Fabric Language Kotlin, Forge Config API Port and Kotlin for Forge, with Fabric API needed on Fabric. Forge Config Screens is optional. The mod is open source under the MIT License and its source code and issue tracker are public.
Key features
Snacks for quick health
Small foods such as apples, carrots and sweet berries restore a part of health the moment they are eaten.
Meals for nutrition
Elaborate dishes contribute nutrition values and take longer to eat, supporting recovery of lost health.
Sumptuous Feast effect
Going to bed with a full belly raises stats by 10 percent for the following 20 minutes of the day.
Data pack configuration
The Sumptuous Feast boost can be changed through a data pack, and it also raises stats from modded foods.
Diet integration
Attribute boosts and long-lasting effects depend on how varied the player's food choices are, as set by Diet.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 5
Optional 1
How it compares
A Balanced Diet is a client and server option under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later, built for Fabric and Forge on 1.20 – 1.20.6. Balanced Diet Challenge is server-required with optional client use, open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later, and covers 1.20.2 – 1.20.4 on Fabric, Forge and Quilt. Bulking works on 1.20.1 only, on Fabric and Forge, and is open source under the MIT License.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulking | Fabric and Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-04-11 |
| A Balanced Diet | Fabric and Forge | 1.20 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2026-10-03 |
| Balanced Diet Challenge | Fabric, Forge and Quilt | 1.20.2 – 1.20.4 | Server required, client optional | 2023-12-09 |
Questions
Does Bulking need Diet installed?
Must the server run Bulking too?
Which game versions does Bulking support?
In the catalog
Bulking is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Snacks represent small, easy to eat pieces of food that are usually easy to find; this includes things like apples, carrots, or sweet berries. Snacks are handy little things that will restore part of your health the moment you finish eating them, so make sure to keep a healthy stack of them in your hotbar, because…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/bulking
- Owner
- neirenoir
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-04-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15