In TerraFirmaCraft, not only must you manage your hunger, but you must manage your thirst. Hunger works similar to vanilla. Most pieces of food restore about a fifth of your hunger bar. Some pieces of food may restore a bit less, such as Cattail Roots. Eating food also restores Saturation, which can be thought of as how full you are. Depleting food or water results in sluggish movement and taking damage. Dying does not reset your nutrients or contaminants.

Some foods are very filling, so they keep you from losing hunger for longer, while some foods have a short-lived effect.

You will lose hunger just from regular gameplay. Hunger drains faster if you do things like sprint, swim, or become Overburdened. Information about the Saturation, Water, as well as Nutrients available from a food is available by hovering over it in your inventory. Using Shift reveals the full tooltip.

All foods have a tooltip with this information. The tooltip includes the Decay Date of the food, which may be extended with preservation. When viewing this information, it's important to realize that not all foods have nutritional value. For example, Dough is a food, but it has no Nutrition, Saturation, or Water value. Eating it would not do much good.

A food tooltip may look like:

Orange
Expires on: 11:59 July 6, 1004 (in 1 month(s) and 1 day(s))
Nutrition:
- Saturation: 2%
- Water: 10%
- Fruit: 0.5

Thirst

Thirst is the level of water in your body. It depletes at a similar rate to hunger. At high temperatures or levels of high hunger usage, your thirst will deplete faster. Luckily, drinking Fresh Water replenishes thirst. This can be done by clicking Right Click on a water block. Drinking saltwater causes you to lose thirst, and even has a chance of giving you the Thirst effect, which will drain you even more.

Water Safety

To avoid saltwater or muddy water, look for rivers, lakes, and freshwater plants like Cattails.

Knapping and firing a jug is a way to carry water with you. Fill it like a bucket with Right Click. Holding Right Click drinks the water.

You can also drink out of other containers such as Flasks or Glass Bottles. Read more about drinking containers and drink effects Here

Nutrition Screen

In TerraFirmaGreg the nutrition screen displays vast information about your health.

• There is a main graph displaying your Nutrients

• A side graph showing your Contaminants

• A table displaying your health stats.

• And a toggleable view for checking on your teams nutrition.

Hold-Shift over an element on the screen to view more information.

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The nutrition screen, with graphs showing the levels of each nutrient.

Nutrients

There are five nutrients, all obtainable from food: Fruit, Vegetables, Protein, Grain, and Dairy. Eating food gives you its nutrients. Meals such as Soup combine more nutrients into one meal. Often meals will borrow the nutrients from their ingredients directly. This is important, because meals you ate a while ago don't count towards your nutrition.

The total value of your nutrients determines your maximum HP. At max value you can achieve 30 hearts. While the lowest is 3 hearts.
Your average nutrients also effect the following:

• Average >55% ↴

◦ Increase passive health regen by 50%.
◦ Decreases Medical Condition
progression rate by 25%.
◦ Increase medical condition passive healing rate by 50%.

• Average >85% ↴

◦ Increase passive health regen by 100%.
◦ Decreases Medical Condition
progression rate by 50%.
◦ Increase medical condition passive healing rate by 100%.

Fruit

Fruit nutrients are mostly found from Fruiting Plants, like berry bushes, and fruit trees. A notable exception to this is Pumpkins and Melons, which nutritionally are fruits.

Increasing your fruit value gives the following effects:

• Average >55% →

Decreases thirst usage by 25%.

• Average >85% →

Increases mining speed by 30%.

Vegetables

Vegetables are found in nearly every Crop.

Increasing your vegetable value gives the following effects:

• Value >55% →

Removes under-water mining penalty.

• Value >85% →

Gives the respiration effect.

Protein

Protein can be sourced from the meat of Animals. It can also be obtained from some crops like legumes.

Increasing your protein value gives the following effects:

• Value >55% →

Decrease exhaustion multiplier by 25%.

• Value >85% →

Allows you to carry an additional huge & heavy item without being Overburdened (like a sealed barrel).

Grain

Grain is found in cereal crops, such as Barley. The processing of grain is on the Bread page. Some root crops also count as grains.

Increasing your grain value gives the following effects:

• Value >55% →

Gives a 5% speed buff.

• Value >85% →

Gives a 15% speed buff.

Dairy

Dairy comes from Milk, which is derived from Dairy Animals. Processing and drinking milk is covered on the Dairy page.

Increasing your dairy value gives the following effects:

• Value >55% →

Gives the Feather Falling I effect.

• Value >85% →

Gives the Feather Falling IV effect.

Contaminants

In addition to nutrients TerraFirmaGreg also adds contaminants. There are three contaminants, all obtainable from food: Toxins, Parasites, and Microplastics. Contaminants can be passed into meal items and build up within the player.

Toxins

Toxins come from specifically dangerous crops and meats. Toxins decrease naturally at a rate of 3%/day. Consume Detox Capsules to actively Cure Toxins.

Increasing your toxins value gives the following effects:

• Value >0% →

On any new increase: 25% chance to get a random hazardous effect for 10sec.

• Value >99% →

Death.

Parasites

Parasites come from eating certain raw meats or drinking muddy water. Consume Parasiticide Capsules to actively Cure Parasites.

Increasing your parasites value gives the following effects:

• Value >10% →

20% chance to increase by 10% each day to a max of 60%.

• Value >33% →

Increases passive exhaustion by 25%.

• Value >66% →

Increases passive exhaustion by 50%.

Microplastics

Microplastics come from consuming food packaged in plastic. Microplastics decrease naturally at a rate of 1%/day. Consume Nanofiltration Capsules to actively Cure Microplastics.
Increasing your microplastics value gives the following effects:

• Value >33% →

Increase high-temp thirst decay multiplier by 25%

• Value >66% ↴

◦ Increase high-temp thirst decay multiplier by 50%.
◦ On any new increase: 5% chance to get Cancer
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Transient Effects

TerraFirmaGreg also adds Transient Effects. Transient effects exist for the purpose of transferring buffs/ debuffs from ingredients into meal items. Transient effects can be combined and consumed. However, they do not accumulate within the player―They are immediately consumed.
The strength of the effect depends on the value of the nutrient. However, the way the strength is determined is not uniform for every type.

❅ Cooling

• Gives the player the Cooling

effect with 1 minute of duration per 1 nutrient point. With a max duration of 30min.

🔆 Warming

• Gives the player the Warming

effect with 1 minute of duration per 1 nutrient point. With a max duration of 30min.

🍹 Quenching

• Gives the player the Quenched

effect with 1 minute of duration per 1 nutrient point. With a max duration of 30min.

♡ Bolstering

• Gives the player the Absorption

effect for 8 minutes. With its amplifier scaled based on the amount of nutrient points with a max amplifier of 5.

♡ Hearty

• Gives the player the Health Boost

effect for 8 minutes. With its amplifier scaled based on the amount of nutrient points with a max amplifier of 5.

💕 Rejuvenating

• Gives the player the Regeneration

effect with 1 minute of duration per 1 nutrient point. With a max duration of 3min.

⛇ Freezing

• Gives the player the Freezing

effect with 5 seconds of duration per 1 nutrient point. With a max duration of 30sec.

🔥 Blazing

• Gives the player the Blazing

effect with 5 seconds of duration per 1 nutrient point. With a max duration of 30sec.

☢ Radiating

• Gives the player the Glowing

effect for 24 seconds.

• Gives the player the Radiation

effect for 24 seconds. With its amplifier scaled based on the amount of nutrient points with a max amplifier of 5.

🤢 Nauseating

• Gives the player the Nausea

effect with 5 seconds of duration per 1 nutrient point. With a max duration of 12sec.

• Gives the player the Hunger VI

effect with 10 seconds of duration per 1 nutrient point. With a max duration of 30sec.

🧂 Parching

• Gives the player the Thirsty

effect with 1 minute of duration per 1 nutrient point. With a max duration of 8min.

💀 Deadly

• Gives the player the Final Moments

effect for 8min. With every additional nutrient point halving the duration.

🍖 Fulfilling

• Gives the player the Resistance

effect with 1 minute of duration per 1 nutrient point. With a max duration of 15min.

• Gives the player the Instant Health

effect. With its amplifier scaled based on the amount of nutrient points with a max amplifier of 2.

🍰 Sugary

• Gives the player the Weakness

effect with 15 seconds of duration per 1 nutrient point. With a max duration of 5min.

• Gives the player the Speed

effect with 1 minute of duration per 1 nutrient point. With a max duration of 30min.

🌶 Spicy

• Gives the player the Thirsty

effect with 15 seconds of duration per 1 nutrient point. With a max duration of 5min.

• Gives the player the Warming

mob effect with 1 minute of duration per 1 nutrient point. With a max duration of 30min.