Getting Started

Due to changes to hunger mechanics and food properties, it might get a bit tough to get started if you try to play it the usual vanilla Minecraft style. Thus, I've added a brief guide on those two topics. At the end of this guide is also a list with references to documentation for further reading you should look into later on when you have proceeded a bit in the game. There are definitely other things you will need (such as backpacks or cooking pot) or you would like to try out (such as bee keeping or the vegan recipes).

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Hunger

Food provides less saturation than in vanilla Minecraft and you get hungry quicker depending on your activity.

Food Value

The saturation provided by certain food depends on its food value. You can see the value of food in your inventory when hovering the mouse over it.

Effects from Hunger and Eating

Health regeneration is slower, the more hungry you are but you regenerate health even if you have lost more than three chunks. Also, you will get generally slower and weaker the more hungry you are. When your hunger bar is empty you finally die instantly.

After you have eaten a meal you get the Well Fed bonus effect which regenerates your health up-to 30% faster. The effect lasts longer the larger the meal was and is displayed as yellow border around the icons in your hunger bar.

Further Reading

Naturally Growing Food

When you spawn fresh, you should start soon to collect food from natural resources and in some biomes, animals are rare. Besides the vanilla Minecraft fruits/vegetables/mushrooms there are different fruits and berries etc. to eat.

Fruits of Naturally Grown Bushes or Plants
Punch the plants to collect up-to three random fruits/vegetables of different types each. Bushes, cacti and other plants propagate naturally the same way as mushrooms do.
Mushrooms
You can eat vanilla mushrooms if you cook them in a furnace. In some biomes, those are the only food resource.
Fruits of Trees
Right click to harvest a fruit. Another young fruit will appear at the same spot which needs to grow before harvesting again. You can also punch the fruit, to remove and receive that fruit from the tree.

Further Reading

Farming

Collecting Seeds

You cannot get seeds from punching grass!
Wheat
You need an iron or better hoe (wood hoes do not exist). Right click with the hoe on grass blocks (not close to water) will give you seeds to grow wheat. Please note, that the hoe looses durability very quick!
Vegetables, Berries, etc.
You get seeds from fruits/vegetables by crafting (one seed for one fruit), the same way as with melons or pumpkins.
Fruits of Trees
Saplings for fruit trees are crafted from a common oak sapling plus a fruit.

Planting

Conditions

Crops need daylight to grow (not torches). Plants grow with different speed or not at all depending on the biome and the farmland they are planted on. Seeds may even pop out of the earth if their conditions are not met. Hover with your mouse over the seed in your inventory to get information about the conditions needed.

Farmland

Seeds need farmland to grow a plant. There are two different types of farmland:

Vanilla Minecraft Farmland
The common farmland you know from Minecraft already with the same properties.
Tilled Garden Soil
This type of farmland increases growing speed, is self-hydrating and resistant against trampeling. It is crafted from dirt and compost.

Harvesting

To harvest your crops (wheat/vegetables/berries) you right click them. This harvests the fruit, vegetable or whatever but the plant remains planted.

You cannot harvest a plant which is immature. You can see its grown state in the lower right corner of the screen when looking at the plant.

Further Reading

References to Documentation

This is a list to existing documentation of all included mods that alter gameplay in any way.