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Food and Water

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In TerraFirmaCraft, not only must you manage your hunger, but you must manage your thirst. Hunger works similar to vanilla. Most pieces of food restore about a fifth of your hunger bar. Some pieces of food may restore a bit less, such as Cattail Roots. Eating food also restores Saturation, which can be thought of as how full you are.

Some foods are very filling, so they keep you from losing hunger for longer, while some foods have a short-lived effect.

You will lose hunger just from regular gameplay. Hunger drains faster if you do things like sprint, swim, or become Overburdened. Information about the Saturation, Water, as well as Nutrients available from a food is available by hovering over it in your inventory. Using Shift reveals the full tooltip.

All foods have a tooltip with this information. The tooltip includes the Decay Date of the food, which may be extended with preservation. When viewing this information, it's important to realize that not all foods have nutritional value. For example, Dough is a food, but it has no Nutrition, Saturation, or Water value. Eating it would not do much good.

A food tooltip may look like:

Orange
Expires on: 11:59 July 6, 1004 (in 1 month(s) and 1 day(s))
Nutrition:
- Saturation: 2%
- Water: 10%
- Fruit: 0.5

Nutrients

There are five nutrients, all obtainable from food: Fruit, Vegetables, Protein, Grain, and Dairy. Having a large amounts of all nutrients increases your maximum health, while having a poor nutrition decreases it. Eating food gives you its nutrients. Meals such as Soup combine more nutrients into one meal. This is important, because meals you ate a while ago don't count towards your nutrition.

Fruit: Fruit nutrients are mostly found from Fruiting Plants, like berry bushes, and fruit trees. A notable exception to this is Pumpkins and Melons, which nutritionally are fruits.

Vegetables: Found in nearly every Crop.

Protein: Protein can be gotten from the meat of Animals. It can also be obtained from Soybeans, which have protein and vegetable nutrients.

Grain: Grain is found in grain crops, such as Barley. The processing of grain is on the Bread page. Cattail and Taro Roots are also grains.

Dairy: All dairy comes from Milk, which comes from Dairy Animals. Processing and drinking milk is covered on the Dairy page.

All the food in the world is not useful if it rots. See the Preservation page for information on preventing that.

Thirst

Thirst is the level of water in your body. It depletes at a similar rate to hunger. At high temperatures or levels of high hunger usage, your thirst will deplete faster. Luckily, drinking Fresh Water replenishes thirst. This can be done by clicking Right Click on a water block. Drinking saltwater causes you to lose thirst, and even has a chance of giving you the Thirst effect, which will drain you even more.

Water Safety

To avoid saltwater, look for rivers, lakes, and freshwater plants like Cattails.

Knapping and firing a jug is a way to carry water with you. Fill it like a bucket with Right Click. Holding Right Click drinks the water.

Depleting food or water completely results in sluggish movement and mining, and begin to take damage. If you die, your nutrition resets.