Food Decay

Food in a player's inventory or in a container decays gradually. Six decay speeds set how long the process takes, from about 20 minutes to more than a year of real time, and a food item that reaches its final stage turns into rotten food. Placing one to five ice blocks next to a container slows decay inside it, so storage becomes a decision rather than a fixed cost.

Eating food depends on its state. Fresh food, with durability at 66% or above, grants short positive effects: a half-point or one-point heal, a 20% chance of haste for 60 seconds and a 10% chance of resistance for 60 seconds, with 80% saturation. Decayed food, at 33% durability or below, applies negative effects instead, including weakness and poison, and restores 80% hunger less. The mod is built for survival and adventure play, and it is configurable through a datapack.

Food Decay is a server-side mod: the server must run it, while the client may run it for extra features. It is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and the files cover 11 release versions, 1.21.5 – 26.2, under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 license. Joshs More Foods is listed as compatible.