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Controlling Automatic Eating and Stealth Exploration

Controlling Automatic Eating with Assimilation

The Assimilation helmet enchantment increases food and drink consumption speed by 50% and automatically eats food whenever hunger restoration would not be wasted. You can restrict which food gets eaten by using your off-hand:

1. Place a stack of everyday food, such as bread or cooked meat, in your off-hand slot.

2. Keep special items like Golden Apples in your main inventory or hotbar.

3. Because having food in the off-hand forces Assimilation to check only that slot, your rare consumables will never be eaten automatically.

Scouting Through Walls and Surviving Hazards

Other helmet and chestplate enchantments help you navigate caves, oceans, and hostile areas safely:

  • Perception (Helmet): Grants better visibility in darkness and lets you see entities through walls within 16 blocks, making it easy to spot mobs in adjacent caves.
  • Veil (Helmet): Requires hostile entities to be four times closer than normal to detect you, and hides your nameplate through walls.
  • Amphibious (Chestplate): Increases both movement speed and mining speed while underwater, extends underwater breath, and halves the amount of time you spend on fire.