AutoEater

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AutoEater

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Automatically eats food when your hunger drops below a configurable threshold — fully hands-free hunger management for Fabric 1.21.

Mod Loaders
Minecraft
26.2
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Description

AutoEater

AutoEater is a lightweight client-side Fabric mod that automatically manages eating for you, so you can focus on mining, building, PvP, or exploring without constantly watching your hunger bar.

No more dying to starvation while AFK mining or forgetting to eat during long sessions.

Features

Core Features

  • Automatically eats when hunger drops below a configurable threshold
  • Configurable target hunger level
  • Saturation-based trigger support (eat before hunger visually drops)
  • Adjustable cooldown between eating actions
  • Limit maximum food items consumed per activation
  • Hotbar-only mode or full inventory support

Smart Food Handling

  • Best food first mode
  • Worst food first mode (save valuable food, consume weaker food first)
  • Custom food priority lists
  • Optional harmful food filtering
    • Rotten Flesh
    • Spider Eye
    • Poisonous Potato
    • Pufferfish

Combat & Safety Features

  • Combat safety mode
    • Aborts eating when taking damage
    • Aborts eating when attacking
    • Automatically pauses for 3 seconds after combat activity
  • Emergency Golden Apple mode
    • Automatically eats Golden Apples below a configurable health threshold

Inventory Handling

Choose how food is placed before eating:

  • Empty hotbar slot
  • Replace currently held item
  • Offhand

Quality of Life

  • Optional HUD overlay
  • Fully configurable in-game
  • JSON config support (autoeat.json)
  • Lightweight and fully client-side
  • Works on any server

Commands

All commands support tab auto-completion and also work with the .autoeat prefix on servers.

Command Description
/autoeat Show current status and settings
/autoeat threshold <1-20> Hunger level that triggers eating
/autoeat target <1-20> Hunger level to eat up to
/autoeat saturation <float> Eat when saturation drops below this (0.0 disables)
/autoeat cooldown <ticks> Delay between eating items
/autoeat maxeats <1-100> Maximum food items eaten per activation
/autoeat food [best|worst|custom] Food selection priority
/autoeat place [empty|held|offhand] Food placement behavior
/autoeat add <item_id> Add item to custom priority list
/autoeat clear Clear custom priority list
/autoeat gapple <float> Health threshold for emergency Golden Apple use
/autoeat combat <true|false> Toggle combat safety mode
/autoeat harmful <true|false> Allow or block harmful foods
/autoeat hotbaronly <true|false> Restrict usage to hotbar only
/autoeat hud <true|false> Toggle HUD overlay
/autoeat debug <true|false> Enable console debug logging

Requirements

  • Minecraft 1.21+
  • Fabric Loader 0.15.0+
  • Fabric API
  • Java 21+

Installation

  1. Install Fabric Loader
  2. Install Fabric API
  3. Place AutoEater into your mods folder
  4. Launch Minecraft

Notes

  • Client-side only
  • Safe to use on vanilla and modded servers
  • No server installation required

AutoEater is a client-side Fabric mod that automatically eats food for you when your hunger bar falls below a threshold you set — no more dying to starvation while mining or building.

Features

  • Auto-eats when hunger drops below a configurable threshold
  • Configurable hunger target (eat until this level is reached)
  • Food priority modes: Best food first, Worst food first, or Custom priority list
  • Food placement options: empty hotbar slot, replace held item, or offhand
  • Saturation threshold trigger — eat before hunger even visually drops
  • Emergency Golden Apple mode — auto-eats gapples below a set health level
  • Combat safety mode — aborts eating when you take damage, with a 3-second pause
  • Toggle hotbar-only mode (slots 1–9 or full inventory)
  • Toggle harmful food (rotten flesh, spider eyes, poisonous potato, pufferfish)
  • Optional HUD overlay
  • All settings configurable via in-game commands or autoeat.json

Commands

All commands support tab auto-completion and work with .autoeat prefix on servers.

Command Description
/autoeat Show current status and all settings
/autoeat threshold <1-20> Hunger level that triggers eating
/autoeat target <1-20> Hunger level to eat up to
/autoeat saturation <float> Eat when saturation drops below this (0.0 to disable)
/autoeat cooldown <ticks> Delay between eating items (20 ticks = 1 second)
/autoeat maxeats <1-100> Max food items eaten per activation
/autoeat food [best|worst|custom] Food selection priority
/autoeat place [empty|held|offhand] Where to place food before eating
/autoeat add <item_id> Add item to custom priority list
/autoeat clear Clear custom priority list
/autoeat gapple <float> Health threshold for emergency Golden Apple use
/autoeat combat <true|false> Toggle combat safety mode
/autoeat harmful <true|false> Allow/block harmful foods
/autoeat hotbaronly <true|false> Restrict to hotbar only
/autoeat hud [true|false] Toggle HUD overlay
/autoeat debug <true|false> Enable console debug logging

Requirements

  • Minecraft 1.21+
  • Fabric Loader ≥ 0.15.0
  • Fabric API
  • Java 21+

Client-side only — works on any server.