Systems Reworked: Hunger & Health

The mod targets vanilla's food system, which the author describes as a single mechanism posing as two separate ones. Health regenerates only once the Hunger bar is full enough, and a hidden Saturation value sits behind the visible bar. Systems Reworked removes Saturation entirely and splits the two stats apart, so each one has a single visible role. Meats restore Health, carbohydrate foods restore Hunger, and mixed foods can do either.

Passive regeneration is gone under the changed rules. The only ways to restore Health are eating and the healing or regeneration potions, and potions ignore the hunger penalty, which makes Brewing a dependable fallback. Once the Hunger bar reaches zero, healing from food is halved and the player takes no damage, though sprinting is still locked. Sprinting, jumping and mining drain the visible Hunger bar directly, using the same actions as vanilla, and sprinting stops at 6 points as it does in vanilla.

Systems Reworked is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 license and is not open source. It is published for NeoForge only, on Minecraft 1.21.1, with the 1.0.2 beta file as the latest build. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. The mod has no required dependencies listed in this catalog.