Food Decay

Food now decay over time, enventually rots. Food is now a more valuable resource, to be produced rather than stocked.

Features

• food do not stack anymore (gamemode survival and adventure)
• food decay over time in inventory and container (gamemode survival and adventure)
• 6 decay speeds, from 20 minutes to more than a year
• food eventually turn into rotten food
• place 1-5 ice block near your container to slow down the decay process
• eat food in "fresh" state (durability >66%) may grants quick positive effects (80% saturation 1/2 point, 20% haste 60s, 10% resistance 60s).
• eat food in "decayed" state (durability <33%) may grants quick negative effects (80% hunger 1/2 point, 20% weakness 60s, 10% poison 3s).
• compatible with Joshs More Foods

Decay Speeds

• very fast (20 min): cod, porkchop, salmon, tropical_fish, beef, chicken, rabbit, mutton, pufferfish, milk_bucket
• fast (50 min): melon_slice, mushroom_stew, rabbit_stew, beetroot_soup, pumpkin_pie, cake
• medium (1h 40min): cooked_beef, cooked_porkchop, cooked_cod, cooked_salmon, cooked_chicken, cooked_rabbit, cooked_mutton, baked_potato
• slow (8h): bread, cookie, potato, apple, beetroot, carrot, sweet_berries, glow_berries, chorus_fruit, golden_carrot
• very slow (33h): golden_apple, dried_kelp
• imperishable (> year): honey_bottle

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How to

Disable specific systems for a specific player (Patreon feature) You can individually add thoses tags on players to makes them personnaly immune to mecanics.

• Disable the whole system: /tag [PLAYER_NAME] add fooddecay.immune
• No stack 1 food (also disable decaying food): /tag [PLAYER_NAME] add fooddecay.loot.immune
• No decaying food in all inventory: /tag [PLAYER_NAME] add fooddecay.decay.all.immune
• No decaying food in offhand: /tag [PLAYER_NAME] add fooddecay.decay.offhand.immune
• No decaying food in hotbar: /tag [PLAYER_NAME] add fooddecay.decay.hotbar.immune
• No decaying food in inventory: /tag [PLAYER_NAME] add fooddecay.decay.inventory.immune
• No decaying food in enderchest: /tag [PLAYER_NAME] add fooddecay.decay.enderchest.immune
• No positive effect on eat: /tag [PLAYER_NAME] add fooddecay.ate.fresh.immune
• No negative effect on eat: /tag [PLAYER_NAME] add fooddecay.ate.decayed.immune

Datapack's Options

In game, use: /function fkfd:options/get

Patreon Supporters

• 26.2 (02/07/2026): Azerxim, Setsu-P, varinyc, nfnpgllxhn, Phantom-Glitch-Wolf, Kody Delaurier-McQuillan
• 26.1 (10/04/2026): Setsu-P, varinyc, nfnpgllxhn
• 1.21.11 (26/01/2026): Azerxim, Setsu-P, varinyc, nfnpgllxhn
• 1.21.9 (05/10/2025): CYKLOPPS, Azerxim, varinyc, Setsu-P, Wani P, Lionel Felke
• 1.21.5 v1 (24/08/2025): CYKLOPPS, Azerxim, Setsu-P, varinyc, Wani P, Lionel Felke
• 1.21.5 init (17/08/2025): CYKLOPPS, Azerxim, Setsu-P, varinyc, Wani P, Lionel Felke

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Mod Version Mod packaging is designed to be more convenient for your installations. Executed on the server side, it does not need to be installed on the client side. Keep in mind that inside the mod is simply a datapack. In addition, interactions between too many mods can degrade the functioning of one or more mods. Issue / Bug This pack require entities (marker) on scoreboard: you might have to turn it on if using Spigot/Paper. Visitors