Vitality Overhaul
by Somnati
Vitality Overhaul changes how hunger, sprinting and health behave, replacing sprint stamina with an oxygen bar that ties movement to the food level.
What it does
The mod is a survival overhaul that slows hunger drain, so food lasts longer than in normal play. Sprinting no longer uses hunger; instead it drains an oxygen bar, and the respiration enchantment reduces that drain. Health regeneration depends on how full the food bar is, rising from 100% at a full bar down to 0% when it is empty. Oxygen regeneration follows the same food-level scale, from 100% down to 80%.
Most values can be adjusted in the in-game mod menu, including the hunger drain multiplier, oxygen drain rate while sprinting, oxygen refill rate, underwater sprint drain, health regeneration multiplier and the health regeneration hit delay. A sprint cutoff setting controls when sprinting stops as the bubbles run out. The author built the mod after an earlier hunger and stamina system stopped working and no suitable replacement was found.
Vitality Overhaul is client and server, so the server and every player need it. It is published for Fabric only, for 1.21.10 and 1.21.11, and the latest file is 1.0.2 for 1.21.11. The code is under the MIT License, and the project is not open source.
Key features
Hunger drain reduced
Hunger falls more slowly than in normal play, so the food bar lasts through longer stretches of travel and mining.
Oxygen bar for sprinting
Sprinting spends oxygen rather than food, and the respiration enchantment reduces how fast that oxygen drains.
Food-linked regeneration
Health and oxygen regeneration scale with how full the food bar is, from 100% down to 0% for health.
Adjustable values
An in-game settings menu exposes the drain multipliers, refill rate, underwater drain, regeneration multiplier and hit delay.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Human Hunger is server-side only, so players join without installing it, and it is published under the MIT License for 1.21.4 – 1.21.11. No More Hunger runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.21.2 – 1.21.11 under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, and only the server needs it, so the client can leave it out. Hungerless is open source under the CC0 1.0 Universal license and built for 1.21.5, so it supports only that one version, and either side can run it while neither needs it.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality Overhaul | Fabric | 1.21.10 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-03-04 |
| Human Hunger | Fabric | 1.21.4 – 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2026-08-10 |
| No More Hunger | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.2 – 1.21.11 | Server required, client optional | 2025-12-11 |
| Hungerless | Fabric | 1.21.5 | Client or server, optional | 2025-04-03 |
Questions
Does Vitality Overhaul need to be installed on the server?
Which loader does Vitality Overhaul support?
Can the oxygen and regeneration values be changed?
In the catalog
Vitality Overhaul 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
a mod i was using that changed hunger to a stamina system no longer works and i cant find a good alternative. decided to try to make my own. i do not know java or how to make a mod so i used Claude AI (sue me) to help me through it and im very happy with the results...heres a breakdown of what my hunger/sprint/health…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/vitality-overhaul
- Owner
- Somnati
- Published
- 2026-03-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-03-04
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15