This data pack makes the food system in Minecraft more realistic! Eating food now takes significantly longer—on average, about 10 times longer. Different foods have different consumption rates: some are eaten faster, while others take longer. Also, some previously inedible items can now be eaten.
Furthermore, the entity limit has been changed: a single block can now hold a maximum of 5 entities instead of the standard 24, which helps improve balance and performance.
List of new edible items:
4 seconds to eat
Restore: 1 hunger and 1 satiety
String
Various types of grass
Various types of plant seeds
Cave lichen
Frog eggs
Fallen leaves
Small flowers
Feathers
8 seconds to eat
Restore: 2 hunger and 2 satiety
Sea lantern
Bamboo
Azalea
Saplings
Flowers
Water lily
Spiderweb
Nether mushrooms and brown mushroom
Wheat
11 seconds to eat
Restore: 3 hunger and 5 satiety
Deal 3 HP damage
Cactus
Eggs (except chicken)
Coral
13 seconds to eat
Restore: 4 hunger and 3 satiety Satiety
Leaves
Leather
Brown Mushroom Block
Eaten in 14 seconds
Restores: 10 hunger and 8 satiety
Honey Block
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.8, 1.21.5, 1.21.6
- 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 — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
More realistic food is a free Minecraft Java datapack. Compatible with Minecraft 1.21.8, 1.21.5, 1.21.6, 1.21.7 and newer. Downloaded 34 times (via CurseForge). Download it and open it directly in the game.