Minecraft mod that adds various food-related HUD improvements
LemonSkin is a fork of AppleSkin specifically made for Minecraft 1.12.2. Its main goals are:
- Fixing existing bugs and issues in the 1.12.2 version of AppleSkin
- Backporting useful features and functionality from newer versions of the mod
- Adding new features to the mod
⚙️ Features
- Adds food value information to tooltips. Two rendering modes are available: Legacy and Modern (Backported):
| Legacy Mode | Modern Mode |
|---|---|
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- Adds a visualization of saturation and exhaustion to the HUD:
- Adds a visualization of potential hunger/saturation restored while holding food:
- Adds a visualization of potential health restored while holding food (Backported):
- Adds hunger/saturation/exhaustion info to the debug overlay (F3)
- Syncs the value of saturation and exhaustion to the client.
🧩 Built-in integrations with other mods (v4.0.0+)
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SimpleDifficulty By Charles445 |
Drink value tooltips (Legacy & Modern modes supported):
Legacy Mode Modern Mode 
HUD - Exhaustion, potential thirst/hydration visualization:
Adds thirst/hydration/exhaustion info to the debug overlay (F3)
Syncs the value of exhaustion to the client.
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Mantle By mDiyo |
- Mantle replaces vanilla heart rendering system with its own, and LemonSkin is compatible with it:
Comparison of LemonSkin and AppleSkin features
| Feature | LemonSkin | AppleSkin 1.12 | AppleSkin 1.16+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Value Tooltip | In Item Tooltip / On Floating Background | On Floating Background | In Item Tooltip |
| Saturation Visualisation | yes | yes | yes |
| Potential Hunger/Saturation Visualisation | yes | yes | yes |
| Potential Health Visualisation | yes | no | yes |
| Food Info in F3 | yes | yes | yes |
| Sync Overlay With Vanilla Icons Shake | yes | no | yes |
| Rotten Food Visualisation (Overlay / Tooltip) | yes | no | yes |
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
LemonSkin (AppleSkin Fork) is a free Minecraft Java mod. Downloaded 224,775 times (via CurseForge). Download it and open it directly in the game.