Hunger Bar

Hunger Bar (3)

Hunger is one of a blockhead's primary attributes, and is referenced by its hunger bar.

Terminology

While it would be more accurate to say that a decrease in a blockhead's hunger bar increases its hunger, it's not unusual for game descriptions to drop the word "bar" and thus invert the meaning of the word "hunger" in casual use.

Display

A blockhead's hunger bar is included in its character status window, which is displayed when its character status icon is tapped while it is selected. The bar is also provided in a pop-up window above the active Blockhead when an edible item has just been selected from its inventory, which includes a button for it to eat one (per tap) of that item.

As with other attribute bars, a hunger bar changes color from right to left as it decreases, the reverse as it increases. The darker (or red) color is how much of the bar is empty. A golden (yellow) hunger bar is not only maxed out, but will remain so for a while before it begins to reduce again.

Decreasing

If its hunger bar reaches zero, a blockhead will start losing health.

The hunger bar only decreases if the blockhead is performing energetic actions like mining or crafting. However, it depletes at a slower rate than the energy bar. The only way to stop the hunger bar from declining is to meditate and, of course, wear the sunrise hat of fullness.

Restoring the Hunger Bar

Without the sunrise hat of fullness, the only way to restore a hunger bar that has been depleted is to have the affected blockhead eat any of a variety of foods available in the game. Seeds and worms restore very small amounts of a hunger bar, while most fruit provide around 20% (one fifth) of a blockhead's total hunger needs. Meat (dodo or fish) restores more of a hunger bar than fruit. Raw meat provides less restoration than cooked meat.

All of the following items except for cooked meats may be obtained by meditating.

Low filling foods

These foods below refill a blockhead's hunger bar by approximately 5%.

	Name	Where found
	Coffee	Crafted from a bucket of water, coffee cherry, and cup. When drank, it refills the energy bar as well.
	Worm	Digging dirt or compost with any tool with a per-stroke chance a worm will drop.
	Flax Seed	Harvesting flax bushes. Dropped from despawning flax bushes.
	Sunflower Seed	Harvesting sunflowers. Dropped from despawning sunflowers.

Medium filling foods

The foods below fill a blockhead's hunger bar by approximately 20%.

	Name	Where found
	Apple	Harvesting from apple trees.
	Carrot	Harvesting carrot plants. Dropped from despawning carrot plants and some dying donkeys.
	Cherry	Harvesting from cherry trees.
	Coconut	Harvesting from coconut trees.
	Coffee Cherry	Harvesting from coffee cherry trees. When eaten, it restores energy as well.
	Dodo Egg	Occasionally spawned near dodo birds.
	Kelp	Harvesting kelp. May be dropped by kelp despawning due to ice.
	Lime	A per-stroke chance while mining limestone. Harvesting from lime trees.
	Mango	Harvesting from mango trees.
	Orange	Harvesting from orange trees.

Large filling foods

These foods below fill a large amount of a blockhead's hunger bar.

	Name	Where found
	Raw Dodo Meat	Killing dodo birds. Dropped when dodo birds die.
	Raw Fish	Killing either sharks or fish.
	Cooked Dodo Meat	Cooking raw dodo meat at a campfire or electric stove.
	Cooked Fish	Cooking raw fish meat with tin foil at a campfire or electric stove.

Maximum filling foods

These foods below fill a Blockhead's hunger bar by approximately 75%. If this completely fills the bar, it will turn golden and keeping the blockhead full (not reducing) for a few minutes.

	Name	Where found
	Dodo Stew	Crafted using an iron pot, raw dodo meat, carrot, and corn at an electric stove.
	Fish Curry	Crafted using an iron pot, raw fish, chilli, and coconut at an electric stove.