Harvest And Hydration

Quickstart

1. Install the mod and load a world — a Thirst bar labeled Thirst [■■■■■■■■■■] appears in your action bar (hidden in Creative mode).
2. Craft a Cutting Block (iron ingot + planks at a crafting table) and place it in your world.
3. Right-click the Cutting Block while holding Bread, Lettuce, Tomato, or other ingredients to slice them.
4. Use sliced ingredients at a crafting table to make foods like Salad, Pizza, or a Cheeseburger.
5. Grab a Bottled Water (glass bottle + water bucket) or craft a Milkshake to refill your Thirst bar before it empties.
6. Find or grow Tomato Seeds and Cucumber Seeds in your inventory (under Nature) to start a farm, and explore for banana and orange trees to gather their fruit.

Overview

Harvest And Hydration adds two parallel survival systems: hunger (expanded with many new recipes) and thirst (a brand-new persistent mechanic). You grow new crops and harvest fruit trees, slice ingredients at the Cutting Block, craft elaborate meals, and brew drinks at the Soda Machine or crafting table to keep both bars filled. Letting your thirst run dry inflicts Slowness, so staying hydrated is just as important as eating.

What It Adds

The Thirst Bar

• Displayed as a 10-segment action bar: Thirst [■■■■□□□□□□]
• Persists across sessions and depletes over time.
• Refilled by drinking any beverage.
• Reaching zero causes Slowness.
• Hidden in Creative mode.

New Crops

Tomato and Cucumber growth-stage blocks are hidden from the Creative inventory; only the harvested produce and seeds appear there.

New Fruit Trees

• Leaves have a ~35% chance to drop fruit when broken.
• Saplings grow on their own over time or can be accelerated with Bone Meal (65% success).
• Logs can be converted to Banana Planks or Orange Planks.

Grape Vines

• Grape Vine grows in the world; when fully grown it becomes a Grape Vine with Grapes.
• Harvest the grapes manually — the vine resets to its base state afterward.

Interactive Stations

New Items At a Glance

Produce & Ingredients: Tomato, Cucumber, Lettuce, Grapes, Banana, Orange, Cheese
Sliced Ingredients: Sliced Bread, Lettuce, Tomato, Cucumber, Cheese, Ham, Beef, Chicken, Carrot, Potato, Orange Slices, Banana Slices
Foods: Cheeseburger, Pizza, Salad, Club Sandwich, French Fries, Chicken Drumsticks, Rice and Dumplings, Pickles, Ice Cream
Drinks: Bottled Water, Apple Juice, Orange Juice, Grape Juice, Sweet Tea, Milkshake, Cola, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Mtn Dew, Sprite
Blocks: Cutting Block, Soda Machine, Banana Log/Planks/Leaves/Sapling, Orange Log/Planks/Leaves/Sapling, Grape Vine

How To Use

Cutting Block

Place the Cutting Block and right-click (use) it while carrying sliceable items. A menu appears listing everything in your inventory that can be chopped. Select an option to consume one unit of the ingredient and receive sliced pieces in return.

Soda Machine

Place the Soda Machine and right-click it to brew sodas (Cola, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Mtn Dew, Sprite). Each machine tracks its own brew state.

Drinks & Thirst

Every drink refills thirst when consumed. Drinks can always be consumed regardless of hunger level.

Crafting And Obtaining

Stations

Wood & Planks

Ingredients

Foods

Drinks

Abilities And Mechanics

Food Nutrition Summary

Drink Distinctions

Every drink has its own unique icon so you can easily tell them apart at a glance: Milkshake, Sweet Tea, Cola, Mtn Dew, Dr. Pepper, Sprite, Pepsi, Bottled Water, Apple Juice, and Grape Juice each have a distinct bottle, can, or glass appearance.

Progression And Strategy

1. Early game: Prioritize crafting a Cutting Block and planting Tomato Seeds and Cucumber Seeds to start your ingredient pipeline. Craft Bottled Water immediately — it's cheap (glass bottle + water bucket = 3 bottles) and provides strong thirst restoration.
2. Tree hunting: Explore for naturally-spawning Banana and Orange trees. Collect their saplings from falling leaves so you can establish a permanent fruit orchard.
3. Grape vines: Locate Grape Vines and wait for them to show grapes. Harvest regularly — they reset and regrow for a renewable supply needed for Grape Juice.
4. Mid game: Build a Soda Machine using iron ingots, redstone, and glass. Sodas restore a solid 3 thirst segments each and the machine provides a reliable in-base drink source.
5. Food variety: Cheese from a Milk Bucket enables Pizza, Cheeseburgers, and Club Sandwiches — the highest-nutrition foods in the mod. Keeping a cow farm makes these recipes easy to sustain.
6. Thirst management: Never let your thirst bar fully drain. Keep a stack of Bottled Water or Juice in your hotbar for emergencies; the Slowness penalty from an empty bar makes mining and combat significantly harder.