Verifying Survival Balance and Visual Feedback

Understanding Survival Gameplay Impact

The mod operates as a pure visual tweak and does not introduce new items, blocks, or crafting recipes into your world. Core survival balance remains completely unaffected:

• Eating and drinking durations are unchanged.
• Hunger restoration and saturation values remain identical to vanilla.
• Healing from golden variants or effects from potions trigger at the exact standard moment.

Using Bites as Visual Timers

While the mod does not change mechanics, the progressive bite animation provides immediate in-game feedback during survival tasks and combat encounters:

1. When eating during intense situations, such as running from hostile mobs, observe the shrinkage of the food in your hand.

2. The visual reduction of the item gives you a clear indication of how close you are to completing the meal.

3. If you release the use key before the final stage, the food item immediately resets to its full size in your hand without being wasted.

This provides helpful visual clarity on your chewing progress without cluttering the screen or altering default mechanics.