Melancholic Hunger & HUD

Melancholic Hunger & HUD aims to seamlessly integrate the classic health regeneration system from before Beta 1.8 versions into the modern game. It also auto-hides the experience bar from the HUD to match the look of those old versions while keeping the exp bar accessible.

Main Features

1. Hunger system is removed — Health regenerates directly from eating food
2. Gradual health regeneration — Compensates for food stacking in modern versions. Regen speed depends on what types of food you eat. Eating various types of food gives a cumulative effect that greatly increases the speed of regeneration (similar to the great mod BTA!)
3. Smaller food stack sizes — Prevents players from carrying an infinite supply of health in their inventory
4. Quality-of-life improvements — The HUD displays the number of hearts that can be replenished by the currently held food item, as well as the number of hearts that are already regenerating
5. Health-limited sprinting — Sprinting is only available when the player's health is higher than the set minimum limit
6. Removed hunger effect — The hunger effect is replaced with the poison effect with a shorter duration
7. Instant eating — You can make the eating animation instantaneous (disabled by default)
8. The armor bar is on the right side, and it's drawn right-to-left, the experience bar is hidden — Brings back the nostalgic, clean HUD appearance
9. Smart experience bar — The experience bar only appears when exp is being gained. Also when the player opens their inventory, or when interacting with workstations that use experience points
10. Smooth animation — Clean appearance and disappearance of the experience bar
11. Option for hiding the locator bar on the client side — If you don't like it being constantly visible (disabled by default)
12. Extended food item tooltips — Number of hearts that can be replenished and regeneration speed are displayed on the tooltips for all food items (including modded items)
13. Server support — You can run the mod on a modded server instance (clients would have to have the mod as well)

All features are toggleable through the GUI config, allowing you to customize the mod to your liking (requires Mod Menu installed to access the GUI on Fabric).

Server Features

1. Some options (those that only affect the appearance of the HUD) are client-side, so each player can set and change them how they like
2. Other options (those that affect game mechanics) are server-side, so the server enforces them to all players. Server operators can use the mod's GUI to update the configuration on the server. The updated config will be sent to all players automatically

My other projects

Melancholic is planned to be a series of mods with the common theme of being inspired by old Minecraft, but not limited by it.

Check out my other mod - Melancholic Beds

Compatibility

Warning: Most mods that modify the hunger system or the HUD are very likely to be incompatible with this mod.

Nostalgic Tweaks

This mod is compatible with Nostalgic Tweaks by Adrenix. Overlapping config settings will be synchronized automatically.

Farmer's Delight

This mod is compatible with Farmer's Delight by vectorwing, and its Fabric port Farmer's Delight Refabricated. There are changes to how Comfort and Nourishment effects work when hunger is disabled:

• Comfort heals when there is currently no health regeneration from consumed food items (almost the same as standard Farmer's Delight but it's no longer dependent on saturation)
• Nourishment gives health boost (3 additional hearts by default) and increases health regeneration speed for all food items (2 times faster by default). Both features can be modified or disabled through the GUI config

Resource Packs

This mod should be compatible with most resourcepacks, although there may be some small issues with the HUD.

Compatibility List

Mods with a ✅ are specifically made compatible by me.

Mods with a ❌ are known to have compatibility issues.

If you really need some mod to work correctly and you know exactly which mod causes incompatibility, you can submit an issue on github. I will try to make it compatible.

Dependencies

These library mods are required for the mod to run:

1. Fabric API (only on Fabric)
2. YetAnotherConfigLib (on Fabric, NeoForge and Forge)