Hunger drains while standing still

I also noticed a big difference in hunger depletion between 1.6.2 and 13w37b in singleplayer even when I am fully healed.

i was on hard mode and i ran out of food but it was no killing me i log out waited 5min then log in again i i did not die i had to turn it to peaceful then back to hard to die i do not like to cheat but i dont like all my mobs from my xp grinder disappear ether

This happens to me in singleplayer and multiplayer, I dont know about Easy difficulty but on Normal and Hard, my hunger drains to 3 nugs in a matter of like 20-30 seconds. Its a complete waste of the steak iv'e afk'd forever to get

This is just caused by the recent "re-balancing" which ultimately broke the hunger system.

I have this issue in MC release 1.7.2

I don't know why it happend. I was running around a bit, and suddenly noticed my food kept depleting. Even when I was standing still.
I ate some porkchop until I was at full again, and then noticed it was still draining, while I literally did nothing. So as I stood there watching my food drain, I made a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm2MWjLsOwQ

It drained around 2 food in 30 seconds while I did absolutely nothing.
Quiting the game and restarting it fixed it for me... so far. I have not played a lot since that happened, so I don't know if it will be back.

If this is work as intended, then the intent is not a very good one 🙂

I do believe this should be a bug, or at least something has changed since 1.6 to 1.7. Experiencing this in both SP SMP, most noticeable when sprint jumping. I did a basic test of sprint jumping and every 5th jump I lost half a hunger nugget. This test was also done at full health, Compared to ~17 jumps in 1.6.4. I also I don't think it's related to the fairly new mechanic of using the first two hunger to regen health(which was present in 1.6 I believe, indicated again that something else has changed here).

I don't think it's limited to sprint jumping, but it is more noticeable when doing so as it typical uses a lot more hunger anyways.

Could this be re-opened? Or was there supposed to be a change from 1.6 to 1.7 in food consumption?

I've done some more testing, Did a test of just running in 1.6.4 and the same in 1.7.2 and hunger drained the same.
Did a test to see how many jumps straight up and down it took to deplete 1 hunger icon, and it was the same in both 1.6.4 and 1.7.2.
However when Sprinting and jumping hunger depletes extremely fast. Much faster than in 1.6.4.

Here is a video showing side by side comparison of just running and running while jumping with 1.6.4 on the Left, and 1.7.2 on the Right.

http://youtu.be/ouum9Z9GlpY

Same problem here, if it's really balance change mad in 1.7 to prevent people from bunny jumping arround, it' sa little bit stupid since most people need to jump just to cave or explore. Futhermore is was already a pain in the ass to farm food in a early game, with this it's even worst, try to spawn in a mesa biome on hard, you will die for sure !
I think this have to be changed, no one really complained about the hunger, yet mojang change it without any prior notice just to make people spend 2x time in farming food rather than actually playing but the most anoying thing is to eat every 2 minutes or so for just jumping arround our bases !

This is bug, no denying in that and it doesn't work as intended! This happened to me througout 1.7.2 up to 1.7.4. it depletes way to fast, Only a relog fixes it, sometimes though. And it's quite annoying when you are trying to stream or make videos. Half of my "gathering" time where I collect resources now goes up in farming cows for stacks and stacks of steak. Where I used to rely on a 30 cow cowfarm I now can't even rely in 100+ cow farm. Fix Minecraft Mojang!! Instead of trying to make everything stable for Twitch. Don't even try to make a new version with additional stuff added yet, Fix the 1.7.* bugs first.

I partially support the act for making hunger deplete more when regenerating or sprinting and jumping, it discourages you from doing those actions (sprinting & jumping is quite a powerful move in fighting). Also farming food is far too easy (except in the beginning of the game). However eating 10 times in 5 minutes is not great. I think it is better to make it more difficult to farm lots of food rather than make hunger deplete so fast.

On the plus side, if you do not sprint, hunger goes down very slowly, you should get used to it, like before Beta 1.8, no sprinting. So just try not to sprint or jump if it isn't absolutely necessary, it really helps, (as a workaround to this dilemma).

ok first of all I feel that I should apologize a little for my last post, for my reaction that is. But still the fact remains that it is a bug, and shouldn't but put out "works as intended". I should have been more clear about it.
This is what happens: I log on, nothing wrong at that moment, I start run jumps the hunger/saturation goes down normally, a little bit faster then when in 1.6,4.
After a while, like 5 minutes, this hunger bug kicks in. The hunger goes down a bit quicker then when I logged in. But that's not a huge problem, the problem is that at this point the hungerbar depletes by itself, all the way down by standing perfectly still, about half a nugget every 10 seconds. This also caused the hungerbar depleting in the same speed as I was normally walking but on top of the normal walking speed hunger drainage, so about twice as fast. This depletion always happens when the saturation has gone, but that should be obvious.
I did a lot of research on it, on connection, the server-side, the client-side, even downloaded the map to my computer cause I wasn't able to reproduce it in my own single player worlds. That how I came to the conclusion that it was something the world files. Since I allready checked the worlds with region fixer I knew it wasnt a corrupted chunk or region file, Eventually I ended up deleting my player.dat file in the world I downloaded. The weird thing there was no option to get it really deleted, cause I shift-deleted my player.dat file but the moment I logged in on the world I downloaded I just came in that world in the same location where I logged of with the same tools and stuff. Maybe it has nothing to do with it but I'm just mentioning it cause you because you never know....
And then I deleted my player.dat file on the server...... Man this was a relieving thing!!! The bug is gone!!! So it had something to do with my player.dat file but still don't know what was in there what caused it.
But it also proves that this was a bug and that it is fixable! So I hope that this post gets seen by everyone who gets this litlle but nasty bug, try to delete your player.dat file or have it deleted by the owner! Just make sure you chest your stuff!
Like I said I hope this helps you out😉

and.... I just reproduced it again.... after a couple of relogs though. When I wrote the post above I've actually tested it out for an straight hour by running and doing run jumps, nothing occured whatsoever related to this hunger bug. But after a couple of relogs I just got it again. Deleted my player.dat file again and straight 15 min without having this bug..couple of relogs later each and every single time I logged in got the bug whithin 5 minutes.
So my wildest guess is that something isn't saved right when I log of the server

Can anybody verify that the behavior you're experiencing occurs on a vanilla server, and not something like Bukkit? As far as I'm aware, most servers do not use the vanilla server, because it does not scale well, and thus could not reasonably support the number of players they serve on the hardware available to them.

If you want to get this looked at properly, you need to prove that what you're experiencing is something more than the intentional changes made to hunger. If you're experiencing it, attach a copy of your player.dat to the issue here, so it can be examined to see if there's something wrong.

Hi Torabi, here's the player.dat file. I can assure you that the server is running in vanilla without a single mod installed. I'm the owner of the server so I can provide you with more files if needed. I can also make a more detailed video than the previous ones if you like. Just let me know, because I'm willing to provide every help I possibly can give you.

I forgot to mention that this started happening ever since 1.7.2 came out. Each other update after that one had the same bug for me. I should also mention I'm the only one experiencing it on the server. Related to that is that I'm the only one who's almost living next to where it's hosted, with a latency around 20ms

It is on vanilla server where I am experiencing this

@unknown, what was the state of your hunger when you uploaded that player.dat file? Full? Empty? Partial, but rapidly depleting? How about your health? I don't see anything particularly wrong with the file itself – it appears to be a valid NBT file, containing valid data. So what I'm looking for are inconsistencies between what it says, and what you see in game. It would also help if other people experiencing the issue could upload player.dat files for comparison, to see if there's a pattern.

Hi Torabi, just putted my old player.dat file back to check. All bars were full. Also checked the file myself and couldn't find anything. With my player.dat file I have now I wasn't able to reproduce the bug yet. I'm actually clueless. Would it help if I put it in the "de-saturation mode" or reproduce it, then the file?

Well, according to that player.dat file, you should be at 10 health (max is 20), and starving. Hunger and saturation completely empty. So something definitely doesn't match up.

Try to get one copy where you're not experiencing the bug, and another where you are.

How could I have missed that!! But with the first one wasn't experiencing anything, maybe because I just logged on to the server. With the second file I was eperiencing it, although I logged of when I copied the file. It was on full health, hunger down to 4 bars (4 bars left) saturation gone.

Edit I'm so sorry..... forgot the fact that I forgot to get the stuff from my enderchest. I used it to get my tools back, must have eaten then:S

l saw I can download the file from here, going to load that one in and let you know how that one turns out.

ok that one is down to 5 hearts (because I'm on easy because of this) hungerbar indeed completely drained.

Not all hunger-drain cases are resolved (perhaps because they weren't all really duplicates of this one). It can't be intended that hunger suddenly accelerate to losing a whole food token every 5-6 seconds while standing still and eating meat.

In my case (running v1.7.4 client & java server), after eating 11 cooked steaks in about 5 minutes, I was still losing hunger tokens as if the steaks had provided zero saturation value.

Disconnecting, quitting and restarting immediately solved my problem (also proving that there is a bug, not a "feature").

My only clue to the source of the bug is that just before the drain, one of my dogs fell to his death. The drain started immediately after that and did not stop until I logged out and back in. My guess is that some part of the dog injury and death algorithm corrupted my player hunger data so that eating no longer provided any saturation (Did somebody assign a pointer where a value should have been assigned?).

Happened to me, lost 4 meat thingys just looking in a CHEST!

Happens to me sometimes when I go through a nether portal, I lost 13 hunger points, wen't through with 6.5 meat things (and with 19HP) and came out starving (with 20HP), and it only said Downloading terrain for about 30-60 seconds. (I came out in a newly generated amplified Mega Taiga so it lagged out while "Downloading terrain".)

When I use the portals, it generally doesn't drain more than 1 point.

Also happens when I AFK for 10 minutes at my zombie farm and gold farm, and I start with full hunger and move none at all for 10 minutes. And it drains 75-100% of my hunger.

15w45a-ish noticed it in a video I re-watched.