Deprive
by mdnstudios
Deprive adds food spoilage and canned food to survival play, so items lose value as they age and sealed cans keep their contents.
What it does
Selected foods in Deprive rot over time, and each item tracks its own creation time, so a stack picked up at different moments can be in different stages. Food passes through five stages on the way from edible to fully decayed. Decayed food restores less hunger and can apply negative effects such as poison and nausea, which makes food planning matter more in survival.
Canned food is the counterpart to spoilage. Cans hold a range of items, including beans, bolognese, carrots and fruit cocktail, and stored cans do not spoil. Opened canned foods rot like fresh food, so a player can seal a meal for later or open it right away.
Deprive is described by its author as a survival-hardship mod, and it is built for Fabric and Forge. The mod is client and server, so the server and every player need it. Files cover 1.20.1 only, with the latest Fabric build at v0.1.1 and the latest Forge build at 1.1, both from late 2025. The source code is public under the MIT License, so the code is open source.
Key features
Five spoilage phases
Selected foods move through five phases, from fresh to completely rotten, on a timer.
Per-item spoilage timers
Each item stores its own creation time, so spoilage is tracked item by item within a stack.
Weaker spoiled food
Rotten food gives less hunger and can add poison or nausea, making spoilage a real cost.
Canned food variety
Canned items such as beans, bolognese, carrots and fruit cocktail add variety to the food supply.
Non-spoiling sealed cans
Sealed cans store indefinitely, while opened canned foods rot over time like fresh food.
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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.
How it compares
Rot Timer is also open source under the MIT License and runs as a client and server mod for Fabric and Forge, with files for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1. Not Just Spoiled is a Forge-only mod for 1.20.1 that is not open source, and its server must run it while clients may skip it. Food Spoiling, open source under the MIT License, is a Forge mod for 1.12.2 only.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deprive | Fabric and Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-11-28 |
| Rot Timer | Fabric and Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-08-20 |
| Not Just Spoiled | Forge | 1.20.1 | Server required, client optional | 2026-08-02 |
| Food Spoiling | Forge | 1.12.2 | Client and server | 2025-10-25 |
Questions
Does Deprive need to be installed on both sides?
Which loader should be used with Deprive?
Do sealed canned foods spoil?
In the catalog
Deprive 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
Deprive is a survival–hardship mod for Minecraft built on Fabric. It introduces a spoilage system for food and new survival mechanics that make staying alive more challenging.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/deprive
- Owner
- mdnstudios
- Published
- 2025-09-12
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-11-28
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15