Diet
With Diet, players track food groups such as fruits, grains and proteins, and each group rises and decays with what the player eats.
What it does
Diet is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later. It creates and manages dietary food groups. The default configuration sets up five classical groups: Fruits, Grains, Proteins, Vegetables and Sugars. Each group holds a value from 0% to 100% that reflects how much of that category the player has eaten. Eating matching foods raises a value, and every group slowly decays as the hunger bar empties.
The mod is built around configuration. Server owners and modpack developers may set up groups, classifications and diet effects of their own. Effects are set in the diet-effects.toml file in the serverconfig folder of a world save. Diet is a client and server mod, so the server and every player need it. It needs Fabric API on Fabric and Quilted Fabric API (QFAPI) or Quilt Standard Libraries (QSL) on Quilt. Cardinal Components API is bundled inside the mod. Files cover 1.16.5 – 1.20.1 for Fabric, Forge and Quilt, with 2.1.1+1.20.1 as the latest build.
Key features
Five default food groups
Fruits, Grains, Proteins, Vegetables and Sugars are present from the start, each with its own value.
Custom food groups
Groups can be defined with their own item icon, hex color, ordering, default value, gain multiplier and decay multiplier.
Dietary effects
Rewards or penalties can apply any registered potion effect, vanilla or modded, or change an attribute such as maximum health.
Configurable conditions
Effects can check specific values, check only subsets of groups, or apply cumulatively for each matching test.
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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 1
Embedded 1
Required by 3 mods
Use cases
Modpack diet systems
Modpack developers can build a nutrition layer where players must balance what they eat to keep certain effects active.
Survival servers
Server owners can attach penalties to a narrow diet, such as lowering health when one group stays near zero.
Who it’s for: Modpack developers and server owners who want a food system with configurable groups and effects. Players in such packs see the group values on their own screen.
How it compares
Thirst Was Taken is a Forge and NeoForge mod for 1.18.2 – 1.21.1, open source under the MIT License and run on both client and server. Simple Nutrition is a Fabric mod for 1.18.2 – 1.20.1, also open source under the MIT License and client and server. Vitality is a Fabric mod for 1.21.6 – 1.21.10, not open source, and covers a different version range from Diet.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diet | Fabric, Forge and Quilt | 1.16.5 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2023-10-24 |
| Thirst Was Taken | Forge and NeoForge | 1.18.2 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-09-21 |
| Simple Nutrition | Fabric | 1.18.2 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-09-09 |
| Vitality | Fabric | 1.21.6 – 1.21.10 | Client and server | 2026-01-08 |
Questions
Does Diet need Fabric API?
Does the server need Diet?
Can effects be changed without code?
In the catalog
Diet 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
Diet is a mod that facilitates the creation and management of dietary food groups in Minecraft. Diet comes with a default configuration that creates five classical food groups (fruits, grains, vegetables, proteins, and sugars). The mod is highly configurable; users and modpack developers can define their own food…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/diet
- Owner
- TheIllusiveC4
- Published
- 2023-02-09
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-10-24
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15