Food Needed To Respawn At Bed
by Im_AFK_Btw
Food Needed To Respawn At Bed changes respawning so that a bed only works when a nearby barrel holds food, letting players return to their bed after a death.
What it does
Bed respawning in Minecraft works as usual, but this Forge mod adds a condition: a barrel near the bed has to contain food. When a player dies, the game checks that barrel. If it holds food, the player respawns at the bed, and the amount of food needed to restore hunger is removed from the barrel, so a barrel with less food restores less hunger on respawn.
If the barrel is empty, the respawn point moves to the world spawn instead, while the bed stays linked to the player. Once the barrel is refilled, bed respawning functions normally again. The mod is aimed at survival play, where keeping food stocked becomes part of managing respawns. The mod runs on the Forge loader for Minecraft 1.20.1 only, and the environment is client and server, so both the server and every player need it. It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 license and is not open source. Its files were first published and last updated on 2025-09-23.
Key features
Food-gated bed respawn
A nearby barrel must contain food for the bed to act as a respawn point after a death.
Hunger cost on respawn
Food is removed from the barrel to restore hunger, so respawning with less food leaves the player less full.
World spawn fallback
An empty barrel sends the player to the world spawn while the bed stays linked for later use.
Automatic restoration
Bed respawning resumes once the barrel is refilled, with no extra setup.
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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.
Use cases
Survival food management
Players stock barrels near their beds so that a death does not send them back to the world spawn.
Server rules
Server owners who want food to matter after death can run the mod on a shared world.
Who it’s for: Survival players and server owners who want food management to affect where a player respawns. Both the server and each player need the mod.
How it compares
Respawning Pets is server-side only, not open source, and under the MIT License for 1.20.1, so players can join without installing it. Retro Hunger Mod is open source under the MIT License and covers 1.20.1 – 1.20.4 for client and server. Sleep Hunger is also for 1.20.1 only, but the server requires it while clients may leave it out, and it is released under All rights reserved.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food Needed To Respawn At Bed | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-09-23 |
| Respawning Pets | Forge | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2025-12-20 |
| Retro Hunger Mod | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.4 | Client and server | 2025-05-23 |
| Sleep Hunger | Forge | 1.20.1 | Server required, client optional | 2025-08-25 |
Questions
Does Food Needed To Respawn At Bed need Fabric API?
Does the server need the mod?
What happens if the barrel near the bed is empty?
In the catalog
Food Needed To Respawn At Bed is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,337 Food mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
This mod changes how bed respawning works in Minecraft. To respawn at your bed, a nearby barrel must contain some food. When you respawn, the amount of food required to fully restore your hunger is removed from the barrel, but if the barrel contains less than that amount, you will respawn with less than full hunger…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/food-needed-to-respawn-at-bed
- Owner
- Im_AFK_Btw
- Published
- 2025-09-23
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-09-23
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15