The Spice of Life 2
The Spice of Life 2 is a Forge food mod that makes players eat a varied diet, lowering the hunger and saturation a food gives once it has been eaten recently.
What it does
A food's restoring value shrinks each time the same food is eaten again. The mod keeps a short list of the foods a player has eaten most recently, 30 by default, and a food only returns to full value once enough other foods have been eaten after it. Two configuration options control the rate, a list of multipliers applied to the first eaten times, and the maximum history length. A multiplier list that starts with full values keeps a food at full value for its first two eats, halves it on the third, and removes it after that.
The mod is a remake of the classic Spice Life mod, ported to the modern codebase using mixins. The server and every player need the mod installed. The mod is published for Forge only, for 1.20.1, with 0.0.3-1.20.1 as the latest file, and it is released under the MIT License as open source.
Key features
Nutrition decay
Repeated foods give less hunger and saturation, with the rate set by a list of multipliers in the config file.
Adjustable food history
The max history option sets how many recent foods are remembered before a food's value resets completely.
Diet variety
Players are encouraged to eat different foods, since repeating one food steadily reduces what it restores.
AppleSkin support
With AppleSkin installed, the hunger and saturation display adjusts to show the reduced values a food gives.
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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.
Optional 1
Use cases
Diet-focused survival
Players who want a reason to cook and eat a range of foods can rely on the decay rule to keep meals varied.
Modpacks
Modpack authors can use the config to tune how quickly foods lose value and how long the history lasts.
Who it’s for: Players who want food to matter more than filling a hunger bar, and server owners who want to set the rules of the diet.
How it compares
Spice of Life: Pomegranate Edition is also Forge-only for 1.20.1 and runs on client and server, but it is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later. Spice of Life: Classic Edition is available for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 under the MIT License, and it also runs on client and server.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Spice of Life 2 | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-08-11 |
| Spice of Life: Pomegranate Edition | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-09-19 |
| 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 the server need The Spice of Life 2?
Which loader does The Spice of Life 2 support?
How does AppleSkin fit in?
In the catalog
The Spice of Life 2 is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,337 Food mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
This is a port of the classic mod The Spice of Life which was originally made for 1.12.2. This mod encourages a diverse diet of foods by punishing the player for eating the same food repeatedly. The hunger and saturation of a given food will diminish as you eat that food multiple times. By default, the player will…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/the-spice-of-life-2
- Owner
- redfoxgaming67
- Published
- 2025-04-23
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-08-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15