Spice Of Life Onion FAQ

Craft a Food Book first — it's your main tool for seeing which foods you've eaten and how your variety is holding up. After that, make a Lunchbox or Lunchbag so you can carry multiple meals with you instead of eating the same thing repeatedly.

The Food Book records every food you eat and shows you how many different foods you've consumed recently. Open it to check your current variety status before your hearts start draining.

Spice of Life Onion reduces your max health when you eat the same food repeatedly instead of varying your diet. Eat a wider range of different foods to restore your hearts back to normal.

Both let you carry multiple food items in one slot, but they differ in how many stacks they hold. The Golden Lunchbox is the upgraded version with more capacity than the standard Lunchbox.

Open the lunchbox or lunchbag like a container and place food items into its slots. You can then eat directly from it without needing the food in your hotbar.

The exact number depends on your configuration, but the general rule is the more variety, the better. Check your Food Book to see your current variety count and whether you're at risk of losing hearts.

Each distinct food item counts separately, so a cooked steak and a raw steak are different entries. However, eating the same item repeatedly will still penalize you — you need genuinely different foods.

The mod's configuration file lets you adjust how many foods count toward variety and how harshly repeated foods are penalized. Check the configuration section of the wiki for the specific options available.

Yes, foods from other mods are generally tracked by the Food Book and count toward your variety just like vanilla foods. If a modded food isn't being tracked, it may need to be added to the mod's food list in config.

Spice of Life Onion is lightweight — it mainly tracks food consumption per player and doesn't add heavy world generation or ticking blocks. Performance impact is minimal even on populated servers.

It encourages dietary variety by rewarding you for eating different foods. Each food gives diversity points, and eating a variety unlocks benefits.

It adds the Food Book, Lunchbag, Lunchbox, and Golden Lunchbox. The Food Book shows your diversity score, contributing foods, and unlocked benefits.

It shows your current diversity score, all foods currently contributing to your diversity, and which benefits you have unlocked or can unlock. Its GUI can also be opened with a hotkey that is unbound by default.

They hold food items and automatically select the food that gives you the maximum diversity increase or the minimum diversity loss.

It supports Minecraft 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1.2, 26.2, and 26.3. Versions prior to Minecraft 1.20 are not supported.

It runs on Forge and NeoForge.

Yes, this fork requires CreativeCore. It also supports modded attributes like AttributeFix and works with PlayerRevive.

Use the command /solonion diversity, or open the Food Book. The Food Book also shows which foods are contributing to your diversity.

Use the command /solonion clear, which clears the stored list of foods you have eaten and resets your benefits. It is useful for testing config changes or starting over.

Use the command /cmdconfig. The config file includes options such as add_multiplied_base, add_multiplied_total, add_value, att, and eff.