It would add a set of nutritional groups: Protein, Fruits, Vegetables, and Carbs. A food item can count for multiple groups. All items crafted from the base items listed count toward each group.
- Protein would include the meats, fish, rotten flesh, and spiders eye. It would also include anything crafted from mushroom, egg, or milk.
- Fruits would include apples, melons and chorus fruit. I’m going to put anything crafted from pumpkin here because pumpkins are the fruiting body of the plant.
- Vegetables would be carrots, potatoes, beetroot, and dried kelp.
- Carbs would be potatoes, and anything crafted from wheat or sugar.
This would make rabbit stew the most balanced food currently in the game, as it gives protein, vegetables, and carbs. New recipes that give a variety of nutrition values should be released with this system. Similarly, more foods should be added to flesh out each category. Specifically, vegan protein options such as beans, more fruit variety, more vegetable variety, and more carb variety would be good ideas.
The indicator of how well or poorly you are doing on your nutrition would be a dot in a corner of each food item, perhaps in the lower left. The dot would be green if you should be eating that food, yellow if you are in a good place with that food, and red if you have eaten too much in comparison to other kinds. This indication system means that there is no detailed nutrition interface and the details on how you are doing on your nutrition are hidden. However, you can get all the information you need by looking at a variety of base food items, such as beef, apples, carrots, and bread.
If the dot is red it takes longer to eat the food, and if you continue to eat the food it will take even longer to eat. There should probably be a max cap on how long it takes, but I’m not sure what is reasonable.
The benefit of keeping the different kinds of food in balance is to make these actions increase your exhaustion level less (Link Here). Because of this benefit, you will use saturation and food slower and need to eat less often.
A food item that is a mixture of more than one type cannot turn red until all the types would be red. As such, you can eat potatoes as usual until you have both vegetables and carbs overfilled.
(Allowing bowl based food items to stack would help with this, as Rabbit Stew is the most balanced current recipe and Mushroom Stew is the only vegan protein option. Similarly, Beetroot Soup is the best food option that gives only vegetable).
MacchuPicchu96 and I came up with this idea together.
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Yes! It's out!! This is probably one of the most-needed updates this game could possibly have.
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Because its educational.
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There is something called saturation, which most people don't know about. It determines how long it takes for the hunger effect to start. For example, steak and cooked pork chops give a lot of saturation, while melons and carrots give hardly any before the player starts to get hungry again. Saturation is very close to nutrition.
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@BilboBaggins I don't understand why you brought that up
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Exactly. Saturation is the main reason why people choose foods like steak and golden carrots and ignore all the others. This idea is designed to encourage people to eat a variety, or at least come up with a new recipe that balances all the categories and would at least be a semblance of a healthy meal.
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I. LOVE. THE. IDEA. There's a mod similar to this idea and it's great. I feel it will restrict a little freedom from players, and that's totally okay. Once again, great idea. If you could buy votes, I would buy some to make this possible.
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Agreed such a system is long over due, and I really like the way you went about finding a way to implement it in a reasonable and balanced manner (the colored dots to give a clear indication of the current balance, and the system itself naturally/fluently leading players to a balanced diet thus giving widely unused food items a purpose again while not being a major inconvenience).
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This also opens the possibility to implementing thirst in the form of a fifth nutrition category, "beverages". Water and drinkable potions would count towards this category; milk would count towards both beverages and protein, while soups and stews would count towards the beverages category as well as all categories encompassed by their ingredients.
I think this would be an elegant and non-intrusive way to implement the concept of thirst into Minecraft. Thoughts, anyone?
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This idea deserves WAY more votes than it has. Voted.
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Nice idea but it might be too complex. Why not add a deep way of cooking to Minecraft, where you can just combine food to craft meals? Then you'd need different types of meat and vegetables, which would encourage managing multiple food sources. These meals should offer more benefits so that it would make sense to put the extra effort in making them.
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Isn't fish meat?
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The current food bar should be divided into 4, one section for each catagory, if you eat more than 2.5 points worth of food in just one catagory it stops filling your hunger
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Yes!! I agree with MacchuPicchu96! I would love to see a nutrition update to Minecraft!
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