Spice of Life: Valheim Edition

Instead of a single hunger meter, the mod tracks three food slots that must be filled. Each food item fills a slot and grants benefits such as increased health regeneration for a set time. A slot cannot be refilled with the same food until its timer almost runs out, which pushes players toward a varied diet. Eating rotten flesh triggers vomiting and resets the eaten foods.

The system also changes survival and combat. Players do not start with full hearts, food takes effect over time, and hearts stop regenerating until a few seconds have passed without taking damage. Golden Apples still work whenever a player wants them. Baking a cake gives a source of several quick meals, and crafting good meals makes farming and cooking more rewarding than eating mediocre foods.

Spice of Life: Valheim Edition requires Architectury API and Cloth Config API. It runs on Fabric and Forge for 1.20.1, with client and server both needing it, and is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, so the code is open source. Its author recommends pairing it with a food addon such as Farmer's Delight. Compatible hunger display mods such as AppleSkin can still show the bar, though with the hunger bar turned off they have nothing to show.