Hungerbane
by Befrimon
Hungerbane changes how food and hunger affect healing, so eating restores health by nutrition value instead of only filling the hunger bar.
What it does
Under the mod, food restores health in proportion to its nutrition value, and the vanilla hunger bar no longer serves as the only healing source. Sleep also restores health when a player wakes up, and the amount is set in the config. The base healing multiplier for food can be adjusted, and the Nourished effect adds a healing bonus while the Hunger effect applies a penalty.
Hungerbane replaces the Saturation effect, which the author describes as often useless in vanilla, with a clearer healing system. Players who hold a food item see blinking hearts that show how much health it will restore before taking a bite. The author describes the mod as a quality-of-life survival tweak, with the goal of changing the basic hunger and healing rules in Minecraft, and it can be changed without restarting the game.
Hungerbane is published for NeoForge only, with files for 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.5 and 1.21.6. The latest file is 1.0.0 for 1.21.6, released 2026-06-14. The server and every player need the mod installed. The mod is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source, but its source code is publicly available.
Key features
Healing from food
Eating restores health in proportion to each food's nutrition value.
Healing preview
Blinking hearts on a held food item show the exact health it will restore before eating.
Sleep recovery
Waking up in a bed restores a configurable amount of health.
Hunger and Nourished effects
The Hunger effect lowers healing from food, while the Nourished effect increases it.
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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
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want food and hunger to matter more for healing, and server owners who want to tune those rules. The mod is for NeoForge 1.21.1 – 1.21.6 installs with Kotlin for Forge present.
How it compares
Systems Reworked: Hunger & Health is also a NeoForge mod for 1.21.1, running on client and server, but it is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 license and is not open source. Disabled Natural Regeneration is server-side only, released under All rights reserved and not open source, and covers 1.21.1 only, so players join it without installing anything.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hungerbane | NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 1.21.6 | Client and server | 2026-06-14 |
| Systems Reworked: Hunger & Health | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-10 |
| Disabled Natural Regeneration | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2026-07-02 |
Questions
Does Hungerbane require Kotlin for Forge?
Does the server need Hungerbane?
Which game versions does Hungerbane support?
In the catalog
Hungerbane is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,596 Food mods for NeoForge. 13,625 mods support Minecraft 1.21.6.
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What the author says
Hungerbane is a quality-of-life survival tweak that changes the fundamental mechanics of hunger and healing in Minecraft. No more dying to starvation, and no more hoarding golden apples just to heal! Hungerbane comes with a user-friendly in-game configuration screen. Simply go to your Mod List, find Hungerbane, and…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/hungerbane
- Owner
- Befrimon
- Published
- 2026-06-14
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-06-14
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15