Vanilla Thirst Bar
by whilelm.m
Vanilla Thirst Bar adds a thirst bar to Fabric servers, letting players drink from water sources and cauldrons while keeping the vanilla hunger and saturation logic.
What it does
Thirst works alongside hunger. Players drink from a water source or a cauldron filled with water, and empty-handed sneak right-clicks take a drink. Potions and food also show their hunger and thirst values in the tooltip, and the HUD can display food, saturation and thirst in a compact layout.
Running low on water has effects. Once thirst drops, a player takes damage over time at twice the rate of hunger damage, and at lower levels they receive mining fatigue, nausea or obscurity. Hovering over an item shows the hunger and thirst it would restore, so players can plan their supplies before eating or drinking.
Vanilla Thirst Bar is server-side only, so players join without installing anything. The mod is for Fabric and targets 1.21.11 only, with version 1.1.0 as the latest file. Solo worlds and multiplayer servers both work. The mod is not open source and is released under All rights reserved.
Key features
Water sources and cauldrons
Water sources and cauldrons filled with water can be drunk from, adding thirst without changing other vanilla items.
Hunger and thirst HUD
The HUD shows food, saturation and thirst values in a compact layout beside the hunger bar.
Tooltips for food and drink
Hovering over food, drink or potions displays the hunger and thirst they give.
Thirst effects
Low thirst causes damage over time at twice the hunger rate, and lower levels add mining fatigue, nausea or obscurity.
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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.
How it compares
Extreme Dehydration is open source under the Apache License 2.0 and runs on client and server for 1.20.1 – 1.21.11. Hydration is for 1.21.4 only and is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. HungerAndThirst is open source under the MIT License and covers 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 on Fabric. Vanilla Thirst Bar differs from each of them by being server-side only and built for 1.21.11 alone.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanilla Thirst Bar | Fabric | 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2026-01-20 |
| Extreme Dehydration | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-01-08 |
| Hydration | Fabric | 1.21.4 | Client and server | 2025-05-29 |
| HungerAndThirst | Fabric | 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-03-30 |
Questions
Does a player need to install Vanilla Thirst Bar?
Which versions does Vanilla Thirst Bar support?
Does the mod need Fabric API?
In the catalog
Vanilla Thirst Bar is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
Keep your thirst high by drinking from different sources while maintaining vanilla logic. Potions, food (see tooltip).... cauldron, watersource (dont forget to Sneak and right click with empty hand) Just like hunger, thirst has a saturation point depending on the source, and this is fully visible (hunger too) on your…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/vanilla-thirst-bar
- Owner
- whilelm.m
- Published
- 2026-01-10
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-01-20
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15