Tharidia: Easy Diet

Eat well, play better. Easy Diet adds a light nutrition system to Minecraft: every food feeds one or more food groups, and a balanced diet gives you small bonuses while neglecting a group slowly costs you. It works with modded foods out of the box, with no config needed.

Beta. The mod is stable and in use on the Tharidia server, but balance may still change between versions. Feedback is very welcome on our Discord.

How it works

Your diet has six groups: Grains, Proteins, Vegetables, Fruits, Sugars and Hydration.

1. Eat. Each food adds to the groups it belongs to. A steak is protein, bread is grain, a beef stew is protein and vegetables, a pumpkin pie is a bit of everything.
2. Stay active. Your levels go down as you burn hunger (running, mining, fighting), not while you stand idle or the game is paused.
3. Keep the balance. Above 75% a group gives a bonus. Below 25% it gives a penalty.

New players start at 50%, so nothing changes until you start favouring one kind of food.

Bonuses and penalties (default preset)

Bonuses are small attribute modifiers, not permanent potion effects. Speed, Haste, Poison and every other effect from potions, beacons or other mods keep working normally.

Features

• Works with any food mod. Food values are worked out automatically from what a food is made of: its recipes, its tags and its name, scaled by how filling it is. Farmer's Delight, Brewin' and Chewin' and other food mods are covered without extra files.
• Hydration that makes sense. Water bottles, juices, soups, fruit and vegetables all hydrate. Watery foods hydrate more than dry ones.
• Plays nice with thirst mods. Hydration switches itself off when Thirst Was Taken, Tough As Nails, Legendary Survival Overhaul, Homeostatic, Survive or Dehydration is installed. You can also turn it off yourself.
• Eat to balance. You can keep eating with a full hunger bar to top up a group you are missing.
• Clear feedback. Food tooltips show what you will get, and a diet panel (the button above your inventory) shows each group with markers where penalties and bonuses start. Hover a bar to see what it does.
• Fully configurable. A simple config file for the main switches, and datapacks for every number: food values, decay, caps, thresholds and the bonuses themselves.
• Two presets. BALANCED (default) for normal play, and THARIDIA, the original rules of the Tharidia server with time based decay and potion effects.

Supported versions

NeoForge only, one file per Minecraft version:

1.21.1, 1.21.4, 1.21.8, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3.

All versions have the same features. Install it on both the server and the client.

Configuration

Config file

config/tharidia_easydiet-common.toml (tharidia_easydiet-local.toml on Minecraft 26.3 and later):

• preset: BALANCED (default) or THARIDIA.
• hydration: AUTO (default, off when a thirst mod is installed), ENABLED or DISABLED.
• allowEatingWhenFull: eat with a full hunger bar to top up your diet (default true).

Datapacks

Everything else is set in datapack files at data/<namespace>/diet_config/<name>.json. A file only needs the values it changes. A full reference with every value of the active preset is written to config/tharidia_easydiet/diet_config_reference.json each time the game loads.

To fix a modded food without writing numbers, add it to one of the mod's item tags: tharidia_easydiet:grain, protein, vegetable, fruit, sugar, drink, or no_diet to exclude it.

• Datapack example
• Configuration and datapack guide

Commands

• /easydiet item: values of the food in your hand.
• For operators: /easydiet check [player], reset [player], recalculate, explain <item> (shows how a food was classified) and dump (writes every food value to easydiet_values.csv).

The same commands also work as /tharidia diet ....

About the Tharidia Project

Tharidia is a medieval fantasy roleplay server for Minecraft with its own mods and mechanics built for immersive roleplay. Easy Diet started as part of Tharidia Things, the server's main mod, and is now released on its own so any pack or server can use it.

Join the community on Discord for help, suggestions and news about the project.

Credits

Developed by: Frenk02 and the Tharidia Team
Part of: The Tharidia Project
License: GNU GPL v3

Tharidia: Easy Diet

⚠️ ALPHA VERSION - This mod is currently in active development and may contain bugs or incomplete features.

About the Tharidia Project

Tharidia is an ambitious medieval fantasy roleplay server for Minecraft that completely transforms the vanilla experience. Set in a richly detailed medieval world with fantasy elements, Tharidia features complex mechanics that create an immersive roleplay environment far removed from standard Minecraft gameplay.

This mod, Easy Diet, is one of several specialized modules that make up the Tharidia ecosystem, each focusing on specific gameplay mechanics to enhance the roleplay experience.

What is Easy Diet?

Easy Diet introduces a comprehensive nutrition and diet system that tracks what you eat and encourages balanced consumption. Instead of simply eating to fill your hunger bar, you must now pay attention to the variety and quality of your diet.

Core Concept

Food items are categorized into different nutritional groups (proteins, vegetables, fruits, grains, dairy, etc.). As you consume food, your body builds up nutrition levels in each category. Maintaining a balanced diet across all categories provides powerful benefits, while neglecting certain food groups results in penalties.

Key Features

• Dynamic Food Categorization - Every food item is assigned to one or more nutritional categories
• Nutrition Tracking - Your diet values are tracked per category and decay over time, simulating metabolism
• Diet Profiles - Configurable profiles define how much nutrition each food provides
• Balanced Diet System - Rewards for maintaining variety, penalties for imbalanced eating
• Data-Driven Configuration - Server administrators can customize food categories and diet profiles via JSON files
• Client-Side Caching - Efficient calculation system with background processing for smooth performance
• Network Synchronization - Diet data syncs between server and client for accurate display

How It Works

1. Eat Food - When you consume food, it adds nutrition to specific diet categories
2. Track Progress - Your nutrition levels in each category are tracked and displayed
3. Natural Decay - Over time, nutrition values decay, simulating your body's metabolism
4. Reap Rewards - Maintain balanced nutrition across categories to gain beneficial effects
5. Avoid Penalties - Neglecting food groups or eating too much of one type results in negative effects

Installation

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.215 or higher

Steps

1. Download and install NeoForge for Minecraft 1.21.1
2. Download the latest release of Tharidia: Easy Diet
3. Place the JAR file in your mods folder
4. Launch Minecraft

For Server Administrators

Configuration

Diet profiles and food categories can be configured via JSON files in the data/tharidia_easydiet/diet/ directory. This allows complete customization of:

• Which foods belong to which categories
• How much nutrition each food provides
• Decay rates for different food categories
• Thresholds for rewards and penalties

Development Status

This mod is currently in alpha stage. Features are functional but may undergo significant changes. Expect:

• Possible bugs and edge cases
• Balance adjustments
• New features and improvements
• Configuration format changes

🔗 Useful Link

Credits

Developed by: Tharidia Team
Part of: Frenk02 and The Tharidia Project
Extracted from: Tharidia Things (parent mod)

License

GNU v3

For more information about the Tharidia Project and its other modules, visit our community.