Hunger (effect)

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Hunger

Sources	See #Causes
Particle	#587653 (dull green)
Type	Negative

Hunger is a status effect which causes the hunger bar to deplete faster than normal.

Contents

Effect

Hunger increases food exhaustion by 0.005 × level per game tick (removes 1 () saturation point every 40÷level seconds). It also turns the hunger bar a yellow-green color(). Negative levels decrease food exhaustion, although they do not increase saturation or the hunger bar.

The status effect does not decrease hunger level on Peaceful mode, although it does re-color the hunger bar.

An example of how eating rotten flesh can cause the hunger status effect.

Hunger inflicted by eating rotten flesh, raw chicken or by being attacked by a husk adds 3.0 to the player's exhaustion level over the course of 30 seconds, draining 3/4 of a saturation point. When a pufferfish is eaten, 4.5 exhaustion points are added over the course of 15 seconds, draining 1 () and ¹⁄₈ (0.125) saturation points.

Causes

Cause	Potency	Length	Notes
Husk	I	(7 x regional difficulty) seconds	Attack
Pufferfish	III	0:15	Does not apply to Wolves when fed pufferfish‌[Bedrock Edition only].
Rotten Flesh	I	0:30	80% chance of receiving. Does not apply to Wolves when fed rotten flesh.
Raw Chicken	I	0:30	30% chance of receiving. Does not apply to Wolves when fed raw chicken.

Immune mobs

Only boss mobs are immune. Only players are affected, as all other mobs do not have hunger.

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	A Furious Cocktail	Have all of these 26 effects applied to the player at the same time: Absorption Bad Omen Blindness Conduit Power Dolphin's Grace Fire Resistance Glowing Haste Hero of the Village Hunger Invisibility Jump Boost Levitation Mining Fatigue Nausea Night Vision Poison Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Water Breathing Weakness Wither The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects, if any, may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. Note: This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it.	nether/all_effects

Data values

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Hunger	hunger	17	effect.minecraft.hunger

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Hunger	hunger	17	potion.hunger

History

Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Added Hunger.
					Hunger can be obtained through eating raw chicken and rotten flesh.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			Hunger now has an icon.
1.7.2		13w36a			Added pufferfish, which give Hunger when eaten.
1.10		16w20a			Added husks, which can give Hunger when attacking.
1.14		18w43a			The effect icon texture of Hunger has now been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0		build 1			Added Hunger.
					Hunger does not currently work due to the hunger bar not being implemented.
					Hunger can be obtained from eating pufferfish[verify] and raw chicken.
v0.12.1		build 1			Hunger now works.
					Hunger can now be obtained from eating rotten flesh.
v0.15.0		build 1			Added husks, which inflict Hunger.
Bedrock Edition
?					Updated the hunger icon.

Issues

Issues relating to "Hunger" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.