Hunger Bar

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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

 
Character Status Window

A Blockhead's hunger bar is included in its character status window (See #3 in the provided image.), 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.

Decreasing

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

The hunger bar should only decrease 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 the 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 undo small amount of hunger.

Icon Name of food Created by Naturally found by/at
  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

These foods below undo moderate amounts of hunger (although coffee cherries restore slightly less).

Icon Name of food Created by Naturally found by/at
  Apple Harvesting from apple trees.
  Carrot Harvesting carrot plants. Occasionally dropped, too.
File:Cherries Icon.png Cherry Harvesting from cherry trees.
  Coconut Harvesting from coconut trees.
  Coffee Cherry Harvesting from coffee cherry trees. When eaten, it restores energy as well.
  Kelp Harvesting kelp underwater. May be dropped by ice.
  Lime Harvesting from lime trees. Can also be obtained by mining limestone
  Mango Harvesting from mango trees.
  Orange Harvesting from orange trees.

Large filling foods

These foods below undo large amounts of hunger.

Icon Name of food Created by Naturally found by/at
  Raw Dodo Meat Killing Dodo birds. When Dodo birds die.
  Raw Fish When killing either sharks or fishes.
  Cooked Dodo Meat When cooking raw dodo meat at a campfire.
  Cooked Fish When cooking raw fish meat at a campfire with a tin foil.