Stews - Hunger Rebalanced
by tjb3171
Stews - Hunger Rebalanced overhauls hunger and food, so meals and cooking decide how much health a player keeps and how long a trip can last.
What it does
Food directly affects health in several ways. Different meals heal different amounts and give different effects, from direct healing to a maximum health boost. Early-game foods are distinct from late-game ones, since harder-to-obtain ingredients produce stronger meals. Natural regeneration is disabled, so a player must eat to heal, and the mod starts a player with 4 hearts that cooked meals can raise.
The cauldron cooking system replaces the older stew recipes, so beetroot soup, rabbit stew and mushroom stew are no longer crafted the old way. Recipes must use the exact ingredient amounts, and a cauldron with too many or too few items will not start cooking. Server owners install the mod on the server; players need nothing extra, since the environment is server required and client optional. It is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, with the latest files for 26.2 released under the MIT License as open source.
Key features
Meal-based healing
Meals restore health and can grant a maximum health boost, so cooking becomes part of a player's progression.
Scaled food tiers
Foods scale with how hard their ingredients are to obtain, separating early-game meals from late-game ones.
Cauldron cooking
A cauldron-based cooking process with exact ingredient counts replaces the old stew recipes.
Short-lived strong food
Better foods generally do not last long, which encourages carrying the right food for the length of an expedition.
Japanese localisation
The mod includes a Japanese translation that installs with the rest of its files.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.21.x7 of 7 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Stew tweaks is server-side with a server required and client optional environment, published for 1.21.4 under the MIT License. Multiple Use Stew covers 1.21 – 1.21.3 with the same server-side environment and All rights reserved license, and Hearty Meals is a client and server mod for 1.20.1 – 26.3 that is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stews - Hunger Rebalanced | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.5 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-07-13 |
| Stew tweaks | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.4 | Server required, client optional | 2025-01-03 |
| Multiple Use Stew | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 1.21.3 | Server required, client optional | 2024-11-17 |
| Hearty Meals | Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20.1 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-13 |
Questions
Does Stews need to be installed on the client?
Which loaders does Stews support?
Does a resource pack change the hunger bar?
In the catalog
Stews - Hunger Rebalanced is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
For the Japanese localisation, install this as well. 日本語で使うには、こちらのリーソースパックもインストールしてください。 Food now directly affects your health in various ways. Different meals will give different effects, such as directly healing you, or giving you a maximum health boost. Different meals have different stats depending on the…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/stews-rebalanced
- Owner
- tjb3171
- Published
- 2025-12-18
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-13
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15