Life of Spice: Food Queue
by Sniklz
Life of Spice: Food Queue changes how food works by holding eaten items in a queue that limits which foods can be eaten again.
What it does
Eating a food item sends it into a queue rather than leaving it freely available. Foods already in the queue cannot be eaten again until they leave it, which pushes players to rotate through different foods. The queue has a configurable size, and its HUD display can be enlarged so the current contents stay visible.
Foods leave the queue after a configurable amount of time, for example three minutes. Blocking slots, which start at a set count and can be added as the world progresses, keep some positions unavailable. A player who dies resets the queue when the option is enabled. Options are stored in the foodqueue-common.toml config file.
The mod is a NeoForge addition for Minecraft 1.21.1 and is released under the Apache License 2.0, so the source code is open source. Both the server and every player need it, so the environment is client and server.
Key features
Food queue
Eaten foods enter a queue, and a food already in it cannot be eaten again until it leaves.
Queue size and HUD
The queue length is configurable, and the HUD display can be enlarged to show more entries.
Timed removal
Foods can disappear from the queue after a set number of minutes, which lets players eat them again.
Blocking slots
Starting blocking slots and the option to add more as the world progresses keep part of the queue unavailable.
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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
Varied eating in survival
Players who would otherwise eat one food repeatedly are pushed to cycle through others.
Who it’s for: Survival players and server owners who want food to matter more than a single go-to meal, and who are comfortable editing a TOML config file.
How it compares
Real Foods! is a NeoForge food mod for 1.21.1 – 1.21.3, released under the Apache License 2.0 and not open source. More Fast Food targets NeoForge 1.21.1 under All rights reserved. Spice of Life: Classic Edition is open source under the MIT License and covers Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1, so it fits a wider set of loaders.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life of Spice: Food Queue | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-11-02 |
| Real Foods! | NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 1.21.3 | Client and server | 2024-11-30 |
| More Fast Food | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-06-12 |
| Spice of Life: Classic Edition [1.20.1] | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-09-07 |
Questions
Does Life of Spice: Food Queue need a config file?
Does the server need Life of Spice: Food Queue?
Which Minecraft version does Life of Spice: Food Queue support?
In the catalog
Life of Spice: Food Queue is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,596 Food mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Now, when you eat food, it goes into the queue. Food in the queue cannot be eaten again, BUT the size of the queue, the size of the HUD, the increase in the size of the queue over time, and whether the food should disappear from the queue after a certain amount of time (e.g., after 3 minutes) can all be configured in…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/life-of-spice-food-queue
- Owner
- Sniklz
- Published
- 2025-11-02
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-11-02
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15