How hungry?
How hungry? changes how hunger behaves in Minecraft Java Edition, letting players adjust the rules that govern food and starvation.
What it does
Hunger changes made by this mod are set through its configuration, covering how much damage starvation deals, how much health food restores, and how much saturation a meal must supply before the effects take hold. Effects from food apply to the player only while they are hungry, so a full player is not affected by the changes in the same way.
The mod is aimed at players who find the vanilla hunger loop too lenient or too strict, and at server owners who want a different food pace for their world. It runs on Fabric and Quilt for Minecraft 1.20 – 1.21.11 and requires Cloth Config API and Fabric API. Mod Menu is optional and provides an in-game screen for the settings. Either side can run it, and neither needs it.
Key features
Hunger damage
The damage taken when the food bar is empty can be changed, so starvation can be made harsher or milder.
Healing from food
The amount of health restored by eating can be adjusted independently of the food bar value.
Saturation requirements
The saturation needed for food effects to take place can be set, which changes how much a meal must provide.
Effects while hungry
Food effects apply only when the player is hungry, a condition that can be tuned along with the other values.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x12 of 12 versions with builds
1.20.x7 of 7 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 2
Optional 1
Use cases
Server pacing
A server owner can make food more or less important for progression without changing any other part of the game.
Solo difficulty
A single player can loosen or tighten hunger to match the challenge they want from a survival run.
Who it’s for: Players who want to tune survival food rules, and server owners who set a food pace for their players. It is mainly for Fabric and Quilt users on recent Minecraft releases.
How it compares
MoreCoolItems is a Fabric mod for 1.21.8 – 1.21.11 that runs on client and server, and its license is All rights reserved, so it is not open source. HealME is a Fabric mod for 1.21.10 that runs on client and server under All rights reserved, and it is not open source. Forever Hungry is a Fabric mod for 1.21.9 – 26.2 that is server-side only and open source under the MIT License, so players join without installing it.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How hungry? | Fabric and Quilt | 1.20 – 1.21.11 | Client or server, optional | 2026-05-02 |
| MoreCoolItems | Fabric | 1.21.8 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-03-29 |
| HealME | Fabric | 1.21.10 | Client and server | 2025-10-25 |
| Forever Hungry | Fabric | 1.21.9 – 26.2 | Server-side only | 2026-04-15 |
Questions
Does How hungry? need Fabric API?
Does the server need How hungry? installed?
Is How hungry? available for Quilt?
In the catalog
How hungry? is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/how-hungry
- Owner
- crystallized-dreams
- Published
- 2026-04-26
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-05-02
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15