The Problem With Hunger In Minecraft 

I genuinely HATE the idea of nerfing the sprint by giving it a cooldown. That just makes exploration twice as tedious because you're twice as slow as you would be.

"It's a good thing you guys aren't designing ultrakill or it would suck" - Hakita

Making food heal hearts instead of supplementing the regen effect is far more broken. With food stackable, you'd have unlimited instant heals instead of passive regen. It doesnt fix hunger

15:23 Yeeeah... people would absolutely hate this change. XD You have to remember sprinting is not just for combat, it's also for exploring and going around your base in general. Although, looking at it objectively, imagining it was like this from the beginning and ignoring the systhem that we're used to, it probably *is* a better system. People would use horses a lot more.

Yes, the food problem is really easy to fix even in the first day but y'all need to keep in mind that Minecraft is supposed to be pretty casual. Like I remember in a video sometime after the food addition to Minecraft, there was people saying that the hunger was a bad addition not because of everything you said but because they didn't know how to handle food properly and were always lacking food.

Complains about eating wasting time, then proposes sprint delay which does the same thing

While I agree with some of your points, your solutions are debatably even more flawed than the current implementation. - Instant heal foods would make players that farm the good healing food nearly unkillable in combat when paired with armor. - Alternatively, if you can only use the food for healing when not at full hunger, then you create an unwinnable situation due to natural regeneration being removed, as any mistake can result in an unavoidable death. - Starvation killing in a mere 10 seconds or less depending on difficulty is just punishing the player for not filling their inventory with food, which makes any other task substantially more tedious. - Sprinting only being allowed in bursts would make exploration a slog, especially when certain resources are restricted to specific biomes. - Your alternative solution then makes sprinting even more overpowered with the existence of xp farms, where making something like a raid farm would result in an easy several minutes of sprint time with minimal impact on any other resource. All in all, both systems are flawed... and there's no definitive "best solution" for the problems at hand. While the vanilla solution is not very interesting or challenging, many mods and attempts to change this system not only result in a game that is more tedious to play, but simultaneously screws over a large chunk of the playerbase.

I can't agree with the levels being tied to sprinting idea. Levels aren't only a thing you collect and lose when you die, you use them to enchant which is an almost necessary part of any survival playthrough and getting good enchantments can be expensive. The only way to get levels consistently is by some kind of grind, which means the player would be forced to go back to their grinder after they just spent a while at it trying to get good enchantments just so their sprint wouldn't be affected

Good vid and I agree with all your points relating to challenge and risk vs reward but you left out the biggest reason why player don't want to part with sprinting. Without sprinting getting around takes SO LONG, you could argue that setting up minecarts or getting a horse is part of the challenge but it's more an issue of fun for me. I do not miss walking for 10+ minutes to get to a far away mine/forest like back in the old days.

I mean the whole “problem” with hunger is basically that players optimize and farm. You could say that iron is worthless because now you can just find a village and make a golem farm and have unlimited iron. Dont have to fight endermen ever, just make a gold farm and trade with piglins. Mobs might as well not be in the game, you can just sprint away from them, and with the iron farm we set up earlier you can be constantly dripped out in full iron armor so damage is more of a nuisance than a danger

you've left a giant cliffhanger here, very interested to see videos about the other 3 broken aspects, but too bad you upload loads of unrelated content since then, that gives me low confidence you'll make those videos

I feel like you're kind of missing the forest for the trees a little bit here. You talked about how stopping to eat is a tedious and meaningless task, how you basically have health regen all the time because it's so easy to get food, and how op sprinting is because you can just run away from most mobs given enough space, but in my opinion all those factors add together to create a perfectly fine system. It's true that you have health regen whenever you're full on food, but if you're regenerating health, that means your saturation goes down until you aren't regenerating anymore, so it's really not the same as having health regen all the time. While in a vacuum you can just eat and get the regen back, if you've taken enough damage that you have to eat again, chances are you're fighting monsters and don't have the luxury of standing still to eat. This is the situation where the temporary lag in eating becomes significant, getting to a safe spot in order to patch yourself back up before heading back into the fight, or even desperately trying to find a moment of respite to eat while having only half a heart left. Getting to the third point about sprinting, again in a vacuum it's true you could just run far enough away in a straight line to eat safely, but in my experience at least, most of my encounters with monsters are in caves while mining and exploring rather than on the surface at night time (one could even make the argument that beds make night time obsolete). Compared to the surface, caves are much darker and the terrain much less predictable, making it much more difficult to flee from a group of monsters without running into even more that you may not even be able to see. Putting all these together, running around in the darkness trying to find a safe spot in order to eat and maintain your health regen, I think makes for a perfectly enjoyable and challenging gaming experience.

i agree with a lot of your ideas, but this would shift the problem of feeling like time is wasted from eating food, to waiting until your sprint cooldown ends. one of the first things players will do, especially experienced explorative players, is try to find a place to set up base. the suggestion to have *a longer cooldown for sprinting than the length of possible consecutive time* at any point seems boring and slows the game down. also, when does the cooldown start? the set time after starting to sprint, or the cumulative time spent sprinting since the last cooldown ended? i dont think these ideas are bad, but i think they could use tinkering and streamlining. having several extra hidden cooldown variables adds needless complexity. i think the cooldown should be scrapped. switch the "ability" type sprinting to a simple hunger/sprint time correlation. 2-6 seconds of sprinting = 1/2 drumstick. length of time sprinting with xp seems like a good idea, but for players who dont use xp farms, it worsens enchanting things. switch it to days since last sleep (also makes more intuitive sense). player starts with 3 days off the counter (3s per 1/2 stick). sleeping sets it to 6, lowering by one after each full day, to a minimum of 2. add food types that provide the same hunger value but have less benefits in exchange for the same cost to earn, but take less time to eat. for example, pig farms and cow farms are about equally valuable and easy to set up, but what if steak earned much more instant health than pork - but pork could be eaten more quickly. steak is for a survivalist, but pork is for an explorer. additional nuance / depth. add slow acceleration to sprinting. makes reactive movement less effective without removing long-distance benefits. this makes steep mountains also feel more like... steep mountains. add more impactful directional change deceleration. think of apex legends: changing direction mid-sprint drastically reduces speed. make it stronger than that: changing a direction smoothly results in no loss of speed, but doing it even a bit more rapidly does. this also has little effect on long-distance exploration, but makes dodging enemies a lot more difficult. this additionally makes winding caves more methodical to traverse. both of these would mess with things such as parkour, but that could be overcome by giving yet more benefits to certain food types or other items. perhaps sweeter foods could reduce these value changes even to default for a short time. or maybe these shortcomings only come with heavier armour or more restrictive leggings, allowing again for more nuance. explorers may have a reason to take off their armour, but adventurers will have to be more careful perhaps. i really loved your video, though. cant wait to see the rest of the series.

This would make the game unplayable for anyone who has a busy schedule; keep in mind most of us started playing when we were in elementary, middle, & high school. Some went on to play video games full time like you. for someone who has time to play games scheduled into their week this makes sense! But for someone like me who can only ever play for 20-30 min when i get the chance, id lose the ability to make lay my favorite game. Because i simply couldn’t progress.

Seasons would be fun. As winter sets in animals spawn less, crops grow slower, and so on.

Perhaps this can be in a separate mode with this new hunger implementation. It can be named the true survival mode (Or simply just survival mode). While the original survival mode being called the sandbox survival mode as people might still want to sprint better to explore more and build easier. Like a true sandbox but with a survival mechanic. This true survival mode However would be more about trying not to die while beating the game than building.

I agree with a lot of what you’ve said but removing sprinting would be such a pain, it would be better if monsters could also sprint under certain circumstances to catch up to you but they can only do it for say 5-10 seconds depending on difficulty

I don't think hunger completely goes away once you have enough food. If you rarely take damage, you'll find yourself only eating when you can't sprint. Careless players will find themselves wasting time eating more often, and brave players will gladly run around with half health to save time. Saturation, while being an absolute trainwreck of conveyance, provides tiny meaningful choices. Maybe I'm alone here, but whenever I'm expecting combat I pack golden carrots to increase restoration.

Personally I think making sprinting for any more than a couple seconds should make hunger drain much quicker, so you have the choice of quick burst movement, or extended movement at the cost of a lot of hunger. On top of that, it makes sprinting a bit more realistic, since you have to take breaks from it to not burn out quickly. Sprinting irl is a really fast, really short distance travel.

One thing that would help with the sprinting issue is just.. make mobs better. Zombies know how to get in your way rather than moving directly towards you? And they can grab you and give you slowness IV for a couple of seconds? And if they manage to combo you a few times it's considered a bite which is a big, big, possibly deadly problem even if you get away or kill them. Skeletons know how to aim at someone not only moving but juking side to side and jumping around, and if you have a shield, they'll switch to a wooden axe and come in to disable it, or if they're in a group, deliberately try to surround you. Spiders can shoot temporary cobwebs to slow you down, are always venomous on hard difficulty, can jump intelligently to bypass hills or gaps, and can keep up with a sprinting player, and bounce around, in and out of melee range and behind you so much that they're harder to hit than a rabbit. Creepers are deliberately sneaky, trying to stay out of line of sight, and can leap at you with their fuse ticking, giving you a very short time to escape. All mobs avoid your cursor like the plague and will attempt to sidestep projectiles they're aware of.

Obsidian's Grounded is a great example of these ideas done right. In Grounded, Sprint is omnidirectional and tied to a stamina meter, but you also consume stamina by attacking, so there's a balancing act to it. You also NEED to fight enemies because most of them are larger and faster than you. As for hunger, it uses the same regen based on hunger system as minecraft, but most food isnt stackable, raw food poisons you, and cooked food will actually rot and go bad if its in your inventory for too long. It makes potions FAR more valuable since they can stack AND they dont go bad. It even has the "hunger vs health restoration" variance you talked about.

I personally think one way of fixing the hunger-healing issue would be by introducing Hard Damage. Like RADS in Fallout, it's damage that limits your health permanently unless certain time limits or parameters are met. This could probably give Wither a more unique identity than just "Poison that actually kills you" by having poison give no hard damage, but Wither replace each heart taken away with hard damage that is peskier to remove. Maybe Instant Damage potions could add Instant Hard Damage also, but the Hard Damage is reduced with armor points, or the damage itself is reduced but the Hard Damage remains, so once those hearts are lost they're harder to get back. Sprinting also could be improved by giving mobs faster movement options like dashes and jumps, as well as updating their AI to be more complex, Spiders used to be a real menace before their IQ was lowered. On top of that, I'd like to add penalties for Sprinting like, idk Cramping! Each second you spend Sprinting after a certain amount of time briefly slows you down and damages you, having the benefits of sprinting drop off after a while, being actually harmful, and requiring more recovery time after you stop, adding consequences. I'd also think adding sprint ramp up and fall off could be interesting, so you don't start with a mad dash but rather gradually build up to it, but maybe that could be a different movement option. Maybe Running, Sprinting, Dashing and Jogging could all be different forms of movement with unique use cases and limitations, but that's maybe a little too out there. That's just my thoughts. Minecraft is really a half flesh all bone game at the moment and I feel like Mojang's forgotten that and think the game and its mechanics are complete and all that's needed is little DLC like additions and not Overhauls seeing as how the last Overhaul of a Core Mechanic was taken, or additions and changes to the core.

I agree with almost everything other than the sprinting change. Most of the time I spend sprinting is getting from point A to point B, so while the change would change combat, for the everyday player, it becomes a hindrance.

as a ReIndev player , I can confirm that this is so right u cant even imagine

imagine mojang adds thirst and you need to boil river water first or else it gives you poison effect, and drinking sea water makes you more thirsty

I agree with most of these points except for the sprinting changes. The worst thing you can do is make a player feel slow. And with the stamina system you suggested, people would still sprint to travel, they would just get interrupted every three seconds and feel frustrated. I think a much better solution would be to keep sprinting exactly as it is, but change the speed of certain mobs depending on difficulty. For example, on easy mode, a zombie would remain the speed they are now so that players can run away from combat. But on normal and hard, a zombie could run the same speed as a player, forcing the player to either fight or find a more creative way to escape like blocking off the zombies if theyre in a cave

using the crafting guidebook as the symbol for one of the "major fundamental problems" for minecraft gives me a really bad feeling about the next video in this series, as crafting, and the crafting guide, are one of the things to receive the most fixes and polish over time and is in a near perfect state at the moment (the only remaining problem being no wood in stonecutters, thats how far minecraft has come)

Very interesting video! I do agree that the hunger system could be a little bit more involved, I would love for a reason to have a varied diet, which would get the player to engage with different systems. I do not agree with having hunger kill at all levels of difficulty though. People that choose easy are more likely looking for a low stress, almost creative-lite experience, and forcing them to be in danger when they clearly don't want it is denying them of the experience they opted into when choosing that difficulty. You want hunger to have higher stakes, and thats great! But 'easy' is literally the setting for players that do not want that.

If you would remove sprinting, you would make the game 30% slower. Like you said, it's almost always available. Every game has millions of things that need have a duration but will end up wasting your time if you play the game a lot(like 2000 hours) reloading, equipping things, windups of something, charge up times, cooldowns etc. Most of these would just make the game harder, while again barely matter in middle game. Player power creep is there, and mostly comes from mob farms, being able to build and lot of interactions that weren't meant for combat but it's too late to just drastically rework them. Sprinting in the end game would just be annoying (the exp level scaling is a cool idea to comat that but capping at 10 would still make it annoying, and players have little to no tolerance for that stuff, I mean it's not that far from the debate of stuns and slows in overwatch, but there needs to be a small cap on how much exp can improve it so you can't grind it out too much).and just make you kida needlesly more fragile when having nothing. You are already too weak with a bare inventory in a fair fight, you will die to one skeleton if you fight like a man

1) Hunger is ment to be a problem for *early game*. If sprinting is removed, then it would destroy the pvp community. Also when you sprint you lose hunger faster. Good video btw

Minecart tracks, horses, and all other forms of transportation don't matter either because elytras exist, so the whole "speed" thing is largely a redundency. This is as well as being able to beat and conquer the game in under a couple hours on most seeds; thus the elytra. Sprinting being overpowered and tying it to hunger further will only affect the early game, where food is already the main problem. This feels redundant. And easy if easy does die to starvation, it should at least be able to stay at 80 seconds as is currently with hardmode.

instead of making sprinting useless, make other transportation quicker. minecarts should be like twice as fast.

This would make Minecraft more fun for a lot of players but I just doesn't go well with my play style. I don't play MC like a survival game, I play it like a sandbox game where I can build huge Mansions, machines, farms, etc. But I don't want to play in Creative mode because it feels less rewarding.

Honestly my issue with hunger is that everything surrounding it is lackluster. There's no real progression or depth in making the same 2 foods endlessly, every food is basically the same with one sole exception, you don't get any other benefits for food besides saturation and not taking damage. Really I think as a whole the base concept of hunger in minecraft is fine, its moreso meant as a way to nudge players the right direction rather than being a big obstacle or something of the sort. But at the same time if youre gonna do that, imo its important to branch off into new engaging mechanics from there that are more rewarding. Something like a cooking system which rewards players for a bit of extra effort by providing things like small buffs or food that keeps you sated for longer. No cooking mod levels of complex, but just a little something more so you actually *do* something with the hunger mechanic beyond just slamming a steak every time you take slight damage. And if someone still wants to stick to the same tried and true foods that'd be fine too, they'd just need to incentivise some thought and engagement in a mechanic in order to make the base concept of hunger be worthwhile. Because truth be told while I dont think hunger was the worst thing to be added I just think theres a ton of squandered potential left lying on the table. Though then again this is how I feel about like 75% of mechanics in minecraft, there's a lot of things that could be sick as hell but just arent and for some reason theyre left as is forever.

I feel like what could fix sprinting is just bringing the mobs up to sprint speed so u cant just avoid them and they become a threat again. This will force u to engage with the game without removing sprinting, cuz id still like to be able to save time going from my house to my mine while still being challenged which minecraft desperately needs

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Yeah, can't say I agree on those takes, aside from the addition of more usefulness and variety for foods. All of those problems, IMO, can be explained by how familiar with Minecraft you're. Sure, food is easy to find out in early game, provided you *know what you're looking for.* I think everyone who's watching this video has decent knowledge of the game and its mechanics. Heck, if we're talking about such an old feature of the game, we might as well call ourselves veterans. But that's the thing, what is obvious and second nature to us, might not be for new players. I think the hunger bar works as intended. It's linked to the health bar and the sprint ability, but you also gotta consider inventory management. How much time do I plan to spend on the mine? Do I have enough torches? Do I have enough food? Going on a trip? You gotta factor that in too. If you want to elevate the stakes, you can make it more punishing, but I'd argue that's what Hard and Hardcore modes are for. Hunger management is something you develop as you play the game more. Sometimes you want to keep the bar full at all times, sometimes you can afford to keep it just halfway. And on the sprinting part I really got an issue, because it needlessly punishes the player. I don't just sprint into a dark cave, I don't know what mobs are inside or how the terrain is, plus you can miss an ore vein. The first descent into a mine is always slow and steady, unless you find a shaft or a ravine, then you still thread carefully so you don't end lost. And what if I have good reflexes? Should I not be rewarded by learning the game mechanics? During combat in open areas, it's common to get mobbed by zombies, the full sprint gives the player an option to get away to safety, but before that the player has to consier fighting that horde to begin with, how much health they have, how much *food* they have, should things go south. And even with all of that, you can still get tapped by a Creeper. Might as well remove armor since it gives the player a lot of protection. And again, I think I get where this criticism is coming from. After some time, things get repetitive and doing your hundreth wheat farm is probably an automatic thing, especially if you know how to automate it. But so is every other task on the game, and I don't want to walk all the way to the mine/ravine 500 blocks away, or get there by sprint bursts. If I wanted to avoid that, I would be forced to make a railway... Which is basically removing agency from the player. Sure, sprinting as-is might be more cost efficient, but it doesn't stops players from making railways just because they feel like it. I don't want to be mean or some kind of purist, the game could use some tweaks and overhauls in their most core and old mechanics (looking at you, wolf AI), but the hunger ain't it.

I am absolutely loving these videos, like most I came from the Muselk video but I really appreciate this style of content, you can see the passion through the way of editing. I also really like the idea of tying sprinting to the XP system, although I think the main reason the devs have held back on something like that is because of trauma from the controversial 1.9 update. In any case, awesome video, definitely one of my favorite creators I've found recently.

Couple things, what’s basically being said is a core gameplay mechanic was added with no thought of how it affects the rest of the game, food in Minecraft for example is very easy to obtain. Another thing is why doesn’t someone mod it in? I know it’s not a permanent solution, but to make it more engaging it could work. Lastly, from what I’ve seen around and played, Minecraft is a decent game with mechanics flawed to the core, and that’s why it keeps feeling stale, it never improved. I personally have been enjoying a little known game called vintage story, which alters the Minecraft formula in a way I enjoy

i promise you that for the average person, the game is not easy enough to require a nerf like this

I think the easiest way to fix hunger- redus saturation from one-type food. Like, if player eat only pork, he restore less and less hunger, and one time he just can’t eat it. This will make players making more farms, and cook more food, but it still not very global change

I really enjoyed your fundamental understanding of game design and was really looking forward to the follow up videos. I was kinda sad to see they haven't been made. Is it still planned? I have slightly different core views on what minecraft is/should be but I am really interested in how you see it.

I agree that it’s way too easy to get the food you need. But I think what makes it harder is that your health regenerates so slowly. If you’re really stuck with a lot of enemies around you and you’re not fast enough to get away, you’re pretty much guaranteed to die because your health doesn’t regenerate fast enough. I totally agree with the annoyance of your hunger just chipping away all the time and you constantly have to stop and eat. Maybe I’m just caving wrong, but I’m terrified of those gigantic caves with all the darkness around me, and monsters just continuously streaming out of the darkness. I’m honestly afraid to put my head down and dig up those diamonds. I do love your suggestions on how to make the food system more engaging, although I think I would be incredibly annoyed if those changes were made to sprinting!

I think there are better ways to redesign the hunger mechanic. I like your idea if untying health regen from hunger, but past that I feel it needs work. I suggest that hunger BECOMES your stamina bar, and while walking and jumping consume nothing (or next to nothing as you need those simply to engage with the game) sprinting, attacking (especially if you expand the conbat system to provide more attack options) and especially movement, such as sprinting, and perhaps a few other abilities if we wanna make traversal and parkour more interesting (and also allow for more intense world generation) Now with hunger itself we have saturation and the hunger bars itself. And I think this could be used to help balance foods (as well as other effects for higher tier/more expensive foods) as the more saturation you have the slower your hunger bar will reduce but the hunger bar itself is what grants you your abilities. Thus adding a bit of depth and consideration (especially if we actually make saturation visible) for what foods should be chosen depending on the moment (though I do think splitting the hunger brs into quarters would help this be smoother) Finally your issue about mobs and sprinting can be solved a much better and more engaging way, change the mob ai and behavior. Make creepers faster than wapking slower than sprinting, still allow for skillful play while also increasing the paranoia (shields also need to be rebalanced for this) and many other mobs could be given enhanced movement and the smartwr ones perhaps their own stamina I loke that you're looking at the underlying game systems but you have to be cognisant of how they all overlap in order to give the best analyses, and expanding on our current mechanics can lead to a more fleshed out and engaging game than simply limiting the players options

I’m still of a mind that the only way to truly fix sprinting is to remove it. As it stands, sprinting removes all danger from most mobs, nearly invalidates all other forms of travel, and generally makes the world feel smaller. Trying to keep the feature and craft it into anything else wouldn’t make it any better, it’d just frustrate people in a different way.

The Recipe Book, Eye of Ender, and Copper Ingot caught my eye. I'm guessing you'll show us how the game in a sense requires wikis and guides due to almost zero information being presented to the player in-game. Not too sure what the Eye will represent besides The End in general? The dimensional system as a whole? Maybe it's more figurative and it's about the way we see the game or something. 😅 I could see the Copper Ingot representing mining in general but I'm leaning towards an examination of the way Mojang often adds new content that feels inherently "other" and disparate to its contemporaries. Either way you deserve orders of magnitude more subscribers here. I don't like the idea of sprinting becoming a pseudo-dash but your reasoning and the comments here have piqued my interest in versions of Minecraft where you can't sprint. I won't knock it until I try it, but I feel like most games have you move too slow relative to the map's size/proportions. In games like DUSK I can have fun literally running and jumping in a circle when there's no enemies around because the movement just feels nice. Maybe I'm talking with a Discord friend about something that takes more of my concentration than most conversations. It's nice when a game gives you more tools for self-expression in movement and combat and, for lack of a better phrase, ADHD buttons. If we lost sprinting in Minecraft an empty well with a parkour route spiraling up the inside would be less interesting to look at. If we had a dash with a cooldown, the design of such a thing would be limited in terms of speedrunning scope. Any gap that requires a dash would need to be [cooldown] number of seconds away from the next gap that requires a dash. Otherwise the would-be runner up would always catch up to first place while they wait for the cooldown to end. When I build something in Minecraft 9 times out of 10 I include a way to get up on top, but not designed in a way that looks climbable. I like to incorporate an invisible parkour route that winds around and appears naturally integrated into the structure. Maybe you have to jump off a nearby hill to halfway up a wall to get started, or maybe an apparently decorative trapdoor has a function after all. Without sprinting, these would have to be way less subtle.

I've been playing on a private server with a modpack recently, and the combination of mods creates an interesting dynamic for food. You have a much greater variety of dishes via Farmer's Delight, its addition of the Cooking Pot which allows for the creation of complex dishes, and a ton more add-on mods. Then, Spice of Life gives you a unique incentive to seek out new types of food: Every 50 different foods you eat, you gain one heart of max health. This has encouraged us to not just secure _a_ stable food supply, but multiple, and then specialize in whatever is more readily available around us, which we can then sell or otherwise to others using shop blocks or by doing favours for one another. For example, I specialize in growing Udumbara Flowers from the Youkai's Homecoming add-on mod, which are normally a pain to get because they grow in moonlight, shrink in sunlight, and only bloom during a full moon; this requires a whole setup with a Piston ceiling hooked up to a Daylight Sensor, which a vast majority of people don't want to deal with. And then on top of all this, we have Sophisticated Backpacks, which on top of fixing Minecraft's -arguably more pressing- inventory management problem, also have a Feeding Upgrade you can craft using one of each golden food, which, as the name implies, will automatically feed you whatever you have in the backpack whenever you're hungry enough to eat it. You could argue this trivializes food even more, but it's nice to not have to keep it on your hotbar, and you don't even slow down when it auto-feeds you-if it's going to be trivial to keep a food supply going, might as well make it basically invisible to the player. As for your proposed sprint fix... As many have already pointed out in this comment section, it feels better to go faster. I think a better compromise might be to have the sprint jumping speed start at 7.1m/s for the first 3 seconds, but then slow down to something like 6m/s. That way there's a reason to invest in horses or minecarts as transportation, as they will have better sustain than sprinting.

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15:40 this would be so god dam annoying when you are trying to build something, and all the parkour maps would be broken. instead, if you don't want players to be able to just run away from enemies, take a page out of Tactical First Person Shooters, allow players to run non-stop but the second they take damage they lose the ability to sprint for x amount of time.

Minecraft without sprinting is like a burger without meat

The raised questions are good, but the solutions are questionable. In my games, I always end up with chests completely filled with food stacks. so I just go and click the eat button without a challenge, as it says in the video. yeah, we could divide foods into health and hunger categories, but I'll still be wandering around with practically infinite food, slowing myself down every 2 min. nothing would change. the only way to fix this is, I think, is solution from the Don't Starve (survival game with arguably the best food management) Look at it this way: you have endless food in Minecraft. Dozens of objects like armor already have durability in the game, AND.. meat has a rotten version.. adding durability to the food so that it rots will make it impossible to stuff endless food in chests. Instead you'll need to maintain a constant source of food. Meaning you'll have to keep your farm going, perhaps, actually plant seeds like in farm games, and not just build a farm and forget about it (because there's so much food anyway). Then in the end game, perhaps you could make some sort of a freezer in the icy biomes Sprinting kills atmosphere, I agree. The obvious solution would be to make players move with different speed depending on the block they walk on. There's already system like that (soul sand, cobweb), it's just too barebones. Surfaces in caves should slow players down or make sprinting there impossible. Surfaces like gravel, on the other hand, should speed up the player

id love the mixed heal/hunger for different foods, sounds interesting. also really good vid you deserve way more subs

I was with you until the sprinting bit cause outside of battle I still need to move fast be it while building or parkouring or just to go from point A to point B while exploring, to the point that whenever I start a new world I instantly go into the accessibility settings and turn toggle sprint on. So instead why not just make everything else faster? It would make mobs more dangerous and It would make elytras so unwieldy that every other method of travel (that in this scenario also got buffed) would become more viable by comparison.

I think this is why one of my favorite food mods is "Nutritional Balance". It forces you to diversify your diet to you can maintain a healthy diet so you can get a buff. But if you don't engage with the system the opposite happens. Doesn't fix all the issues with food, but it does help a lot.

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if you feel like eating takes up too much time, then cooldowns are not a good alternative. eating is interactive, takes like 2 seconds, and has a great sound effect. its pretty well known that players hate waiting for stuff

The health regen shouldn't be instant like in the older days, because that would ruin combat if you have some distance between you and the enemy. It should most likely be a gradual effect (like regen 1 HP per 2 secs for the amount of the food), and cancelled (or delayed) if hit.

I think the game Vintage Story does hunger pretty well, even if you're starving to death you can still sprint, but you're encouraged to stay alive as long as possible because of a nutrition system, over time as you eat a variety of foods you'll increase your maximum health, food is also fairly difficult to get and just cooking raw meat, or foraging berries won't get you too far, but actually cooking and properly storing food (which can perish) is significantly better than just cooking red meat on a campfire, and for a longer play through you have to contend with winter, so storing food is important otherwise you won't survive as animals will also yield less meat and resources

Great video! I loved the editing, pacing and the way you laid out all the points in a way that feels very nice to engage with :) I’ve been playing since 1.7 or so, so hunger and sprinting have been ingrained in my brain at a very young age, with that said i would never give up sprinting nor do i have a problem with how hunger works. What i do have a problem with though has much to do with how the game presents itself to a new player: you could ask any long-time minecraft player about saturation and there’s a good chance they wouldn’t know a thing about it. But that’s a minor offense to me. Saturation is something that’s good to know at best and very negligible information at worst. With sprinting, i think the cons you listed aren’t as bad as you say they are, for one being able to run from threats is (i think) a good way to keep players at least aware of their surroundings while offering a way out of danger that still comes down to individual skill. If we were all playing minecraft since middle school it would make sense for the game to be balanced around our feedback, and while it is still valid to bring these points up, minecraft isn’t just being made for expert players, or people who play games regularly at all. It’s being made for people who don’t have experience in games too, aswell as people who hear about the creativity aspect of minecraft without having the fundamental knowledge of how to even move in a 3D space. Also kids but idc they can get good i guess lol OR AT LEAST that is what i think the general direction of minecraft is/should be: to be a deep game with complex systems hidden behind a very approachable block game. You can definitely argue that those complex systems should be taught in a better way rather than just plop them into a world and maybe sometimes giving clues as to how they work or outright showing them like the redstone circuits in every ancient city and i agree with that. Very interested to see the remaining chapters :)

Sprinting honestly wouldn’t be so bad if not for how utterly horrible the games enemy AI is, and the fact sprinting doesn’t really have any caps to limit it in combat. What if like idk if there’s no hostile mobs nearby hp sprinting was more or less the same (to preserve its travel utility because travel in minecraft frankly sucks in general outside of sprinting) but if there’s hostile mobs nearby it has the tried and true “sprint gauge” then they just make it so mobs aren’t slow as molassesc screw it give THEM a sprint they use to try and catch up to you, not as fast as yours but enough to where they don’t just eat dust the second you start sprinting

I like the reworks more than reversions and removals here. Somewhat relatedly, some thoughts on Enchant Exclusivities: Make Breach Exclusive with Sharpness and no longer with Bane of Arthropods or Smite (gives Bane and Smite some better advantages over just Sharpness) Make Density also Sharpness Exclusive, and Wind Burst Exclusive as well (Further keeps Sharpness from being supreme, and makes a Damage or Hopping decision too) Make Mending be Exclusive with... ...Fortune ...Looting ...Protection ...Sharpness ...Unbreaking (So that taking Mending incurs a Meaningful Opportunity Cost, plus this makes the specialized versions of Sharpness and Protection have yet more use over the generics) Make Multishot and Piercing no longer Exclusive (How often are groups of targets in a line? Piercing would prolly mostly be useful as basically a sub-Enchant of Multi moreso than just on it's own terms...)

how to gain food in caverns? i don't know, for me run out of food is equal to come to the surface. also an extremely important resource in caves is wood. if your pickaxe is broken, make a new one, but for this it is important not to lose the workbench and have sticks. I don't like leaving caves

My idea for how to fix hunger: 1. Hunger should not be stamina. Stamina should be stamina. Being hungry affects your stamina, but they shouldn't be the same thing. Being more hungry should mean your stamina regenerates slower and to a lower maximum level. Sprinting and jumping everywhere should quickly deplete stamina, not hunger. Wearing heavy armor, carrying a bunch of stuff in your inventory, swinging around a heavy axe, swimming up waterfalls, etc should cause stamina to deplete quickly. 2. Critically low hunger should not be a day 1 issue even if you sprint really often. The hunger bar should go down much slower. 3. It should not be a trivial need to satisfy with zero effort. Animals should not be willing to just give up their meat and let you eat them but actively run or fight and try to stop you from killing them. Sheep should flee and occasionally ram you. Pigs should flee and try to gore you. Cows should flee and be able to gore and trample you fairly effectively. Chickens should flee. All animals should be extremely fast and nervous and require more than just brute force to take down. Crops should grow slowly. Animals should have needs, which if not met, cause them to stop growing, stop breeding, or even die. Farming should require more farmland to produce a reasonable yield and take place on much longer timescales. Settled agriculture should be something that requires a decent amount of resources to start and is hard work initially, with a constant need to supplement it with hunting and gathering while it gets going. 4. Hunger and medicine should not be the same thing. When you take serious damage, you shouldn't just be able to have steak and be fine. Maybe your stamina should let you be superficially fine within a short period, but underneath, you're still hurt, and you still need actual medical items to not be. IMO it should even be possible to have a life threatening injury, where your apparent health is being drained by how bad your injuries are, so even though you're alive, you need medicine ASAP. You can then introduce tradeoffs of stopping power versus damage, nonlethal weaponry that quickly incapacitates, and other interesting weapon concepts. Maybe worrying about a critically wounded animal running off and dying out of view should be an issue too? 5. As the game progresses, satisfying hunger will pretty much invariably get easier (well, once you get past early agriculture) but the necessity of having actual healing items, and the need to sprint more often to engage in more challenging gameplay, should be a thing that encourages more and more expensive food sources and also medicine so you can sprint and heal more easily.

Redesign of food system is needed, but you forgot about one major issue with movement....Elythra. Supposed to be "late game" item is not really late game, it takes just few hours to get it (unless you join server late) and other means of transport are obsolete. If you think of it, every basic mechanic got so much things just added to it, and after all these years and additions it needs redesign.

I LONG FOR THE MINES, NOT THINGS UP TOP, NOT VILLAGES AND EMPTY OCEANS I LONG FOR DUNGEONS, ROCKS IN STONE, AND THINGS THAT WERE LOST TO THE ETERNAL DEPTHS!!!

Oh i really hope you finish this series soon. Would love to see someone get inspired by what you have to say, then tweak and mod minecraft for themselves till its what you think is its best version

Removing sprinting would make the game unbearably slow, making a game better isnt done by dragging out the amount of time it takes to do literally everything

You really nailed what the hunger system and sprint’s inclusion did to trivialize the good “casual in easy to learn but hard to master” balance I feel like older minecraft had, though the ideas of removing regen entirely and nerfing sprint to a burst and cooldown system to make enemies more dangerous again but to the detriment to longer range travel seem like a “cleaver for a scalpel job” way of rebalance. Bringing back some or a good chunk of food healing some again on top the hunger is a great and well balance change to a good middle ground that adds more decision and planning into what foods you bring. It shouldnt be instant health restore so insta heal and regen potions are still a useful commodity but somewhere slightly below the current passive health regen rate would be a good rate for a food’s health restore stat to be applied at. Add on not only food eat speed differences between foods and maybe even stack limit and you have alot of room to encourage players to vary their food options for their situational needs. Optionally add on a very slow but adds up outside combat regen as long as you have above 75 or 50% (balance preference) hunger filled and you would be able to balance the food system very well for both pve and pvp. If not slow passive regen, rebalance beds to use up hunger when you sleep but convert the amount used into health to make players weigh whether they should use a bed or use the night time for other things depending on their situation and supplies. As for sprint, its much more simple: same as now (though make it a 15-20% speed boost instead of 30) but you have a slower speed ramp up and quicker sliding ramp down to leaving sprint. That way you can still use it to travel faster distance wise but cant use it to invalidate danger early on or stop on the spot if you run into danger. Personally debated whether armor above chain should innately debuff sprint ontop that to make lower tier armor pieces maintain some worth but making iron and diamond less enchantable and adding sprint/general speed related enchantments to the game is simpler balance/code wise alternatively. Would like to know what you or other viewers think of these additive/counter point suggestions. Sorry for the large amount of text on the food suggestion section though, ill see about summerizing it better need be later.

I really like the idea of enhancing the hunger system, but I disagree with its association with the experience system. I think that the only thing that that would encourage is more grinding, making even more of the game just boring. The rest, however, I believe is a fantastic idea! It increases engagement and encourages interaction with more of the game.

what's the song at 10:53? I recognize it but don't remember what it's from... It's like from battleblock theater or something

Please finish this series!!

Ain’t no way he actually said to remove sprinting 😭

Very interesting! Before I see your solution, I'm going to pitch mine. - Make all food non-stacking - Add a "food bag" that functions similar to modded backpacks, but can only store food, and if you hold Shift-Right click with it selected you will eat from its first slot that has food - Make farmland occasionally turn into poor farmland, slowing crop growth drastically. Player must occassionally check their farm to re-plow, or craft a new type of farmland that never degrades - Health regen from hunger is only enabled after 10 seconds of not sprinting/swimming, but 2x as fast and can trigger as long as your hunger is more than 3, allowing you to go longer without the need to stop and eat. - Make sprinting consume even more hunger, while riding horses/sailing boats consume a small extra. - Buff minecarts. Make rails cheaper, and max speed higher.

Minecraft is such an amazing game that people kinda just find random shit to complain about unlike the clear major flaws all other games seem to be in discourse about in their respective communities

Basically most of this video is just "adventure update bad". I agree. Eating at any point feels more like a chore than a challenge, and sprinting makes combat mostly redundant. Your suggested solutions provide a pretty good blend between classic and modern Minecraft.

One of my favorite mods for the game is Nutritional Balance. It makes you take into account what you are eating by dividing all foods into different categories, for example bread is carbs, anything with meat is protein, etc. The mod rewards you for keeping a balanced diet by giving you buffs for keeping all your macros in check and will grant you with a debuff should you eat too much or too little of any particular nutrient. This mod makes it to where you can't just get one food source and be set for the rest of the game and adds a bit of depth to the food system as a whole. While this mod doesn't directly change any of the problems that were outlined in this video, it instead challenges hunger in a different way.

Don't eat piggy problem solved. Do agree with most of this. Wishing minecarts moved faster than I can run with a swiftness potion..but one critique these things are older mechanics that had a small team working. It's like they are afraid to rework the root issues. Sorry if I'm rambling on.

great work cant wait for the next video essay

Obtaining a good horse is usually my first goal in the game. Fast travel, outrunning skeletons, and it avoids using up hunger. A good one can jump over rivers too.

Thank god for sprint.

hunger cool, just play peaceful

Counterpoint: In SMP worlds with friends, I never make food. I always steal or pillage. Farming is boring, I make houses in stupid places with no access to animals, and villagers are the worst. However, I am also always hungry. I sprint everywhere, I go progressively deeper and deeper down mineshafts, caves, deep dark, and nether. And most of the time its hunger that kills me. I cant regen health after a small army of skeletons falls ontop of me. I cant sprint away from the blazes and ghasts firing a me. And on bigger trips? Food is always my limiting factor. I need an empty inventory for stashing valuable items and resources. I cant do that if my hotbar is all tools, and two rows of my inventory are supplies and food. You can craft more torches whenever, coals plentiful, trees are too. But theres nothing to eat in the deep dark. Everything edible in the Nether is dangerous, and the End is even worse. I think food should be more varied and fun. The main detractor for me is scalability and practicality. Chickens, beef, potatoes, and golden carrots are basically the only practical food sources. The first three only because farming them is near trivial. I think different foods should have different benefits. Making them like potions is too strong, it defeats the point of potions. But perhaps a stackable, placeable meal should be an option. A big bowl that can be filled with stews that can be eaten like a cake, and be reused. A single bite refills most hunger, but requires lots of specific food items to craft. Perhaps cold foods could increase saturation in the Nether. Or eating specific nasty foods, like Beetroot, could repel zombies until your hunger drains. Theres more depth to the mechanic that can be expanded upon. But sprint cooldown is not one of them. Minecrafts main limiting factor is long distance travel. Only efficient with specific animals, Elytra and rockets, and crazy redstone. Limiting the players main mode of movement is just as bad as stopping to eat every 2 minutes. It discourages exploration, and will extend any trip by hours. Minecarts are a terrible example because they have just been neglected by Mojang. But Nether portals, Elytra, Ice highways, Piston Bolts, Ravager Cannons, TNT Launchers, Ender Pearl Cannons. Theres tons of novel ways of movement. Forcing a player to rely on badly neglected mechanics to effectively move short to medium distances is bad game design. Minecarts and horses should be improved, not relied on. And potions of swiftness are for combat, they are terrible for travel. And are quite late game and resource intensive to be considered a method of transport. Like with your point about creepers. If the game currently does not present a threat, the solution is not nerf it until the current enemies are threatening. The solution is make deadlier enemies. After so many days in a survival world, stronger enemies spawn. Naturally they already do more damage, but these are enhanced mobs, not normal world progression. Creepers that blow up bigger, perhaps into tiny scatterbomb creepers that move like baby zombies. Skeletons all turn into strays. And normal strays now have poison arrows. Spiders get the ability to run faster and creep through walls. Any crevice that is not a full block in size is fair play. As well as making mini spider spawners that destroy nearby light sources and spawn cave spiders. Zombies that perform raids on player bases, and anywhere with a bed. Phantoms that keep the world in perpetual night with magic, and causing a progressively worsening slow effect until the player rests. Endermen that congregate near beds and player structures, with a penchant for taking. As well as enderman spawning with more redstone blocks, like redstone, or TNT. Seeking to destroy functionality of unprotected structures. Pillagers who raid at night, and prolong the night until their raid ends. These all make minecraft more engaging, scary, and fun for experienced players. Whereas simply limiting sprinting makes enemies annoying, not a threat.

i love the combined hunger and health benefits of food suggested but the sprinting nerf would need major buffs to other forms of transportation (aside elytra, the addition of firework boosting made it so you didn't even need to build an elevator or canon anymore let alone the skill of punch bow boosting) as you say, the immense cost of minecart tracks is outweighed by holding ctrl is still true in this case and having sprinting drain hunger that fast would make it even worse than on release where you could starve on the first day without sprinting once, having minecart tracks give 64 per craft and doubling the carts speed would probably encourage players to use them. as for the difficulty, it's hard to say cause it is ultimately a casual game and you can install datapacks which keep your hunger at 3 bars and turns food into direct hearts using item use scoreboards as a detector, though on food there is actually one food which can give potion effects and it's the suspicious stew, but the boost is so minimal people only use saturation stews and even then they're unstackable so making them stack to 16 or give effects comparable to low level potions would be neat especially with their unique effects, like give us the creative only max health effect, that could be fun lol

Limiting sprinting would just massively nerf exploration. And *especially* with large builds you won't have a "oh wow look what I did!" Moments, you'll just die of boredom because you break your ankle every few seconds. Is the hunger System as we have it optimal? No. It's annoying. But the proposed changes? I'd never touch the game again 🤷🏻‍♂️

I do agree that the hunger mechanic should be made less obsolete, but I heavily disagree that health regeneration and sprinting are overpowered. They're good of course, but they're designed to be that good, and it works. Regeneration is not enough to trivialize combat, and only really acts as a way to get back up to full health after combat, often requiring a lot of food to do so. As for sprinting, I think the world is too big to reasonably remove it, and outrunning enemies is far less effective than simply digging a 3 block hole. It's good, but it's not overpowered within the context of combat strategies. And things like Minecarts aren't designed to be an alternative to sprinting. They're designed for novelty like many other game mechanics, as well as for redstone, and occasionally to travel between two very specific very frequent destinations.

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Really good video. Would like to hear what you gonna say about Crafting, End and Copper. Probably something about lack of guidence for player with crafting stuff and mechanics, and hard coded progression that make additions meaningless.

so the other 3 videos are represented with the Knowledge book (though most people don't know it's an actual item accessible via /give with custom parameters to allow giving people recipes via right-click), an eye of ender, and a copper ingot. Crafting, & the End seem like easy guesses to make, but Copper could be talking about many different things. For one, Copper doesn't really have much uses. Though the ones it does have are kinda all disconnected from eachother. Though Copper is also obtained from mining, so it could be hinting at something more ore-based. Though in our world, Copper is used for electrical wiring, so it could have something to do with that.

One way I could imagine fixing hunger is that your natural regeneration rate is based on how full it is. Being better at the game reduces the amount you need to eat, but it provides a helpful buff for keeping it up if you happen to take damage. An idea for the rate is the equivalent of regeneration 1 at full hunger, normal regeneration rate at half, and no regeneration (and maybe damage) at none for prolonged periods of time.

My proposal for sprinting, without cutting ties to a hunger bar: /Has some amount of satiation/ +30% speed increase via sprint; /No satiation, 7-20 points of fullness/ +10% speed via sprint; /6-3 fullness/ Panic phase. Short burst of +30% speed via sprint; /Some satiation, 6-3 fullness/ Constistent +30% speed via sprint till satiation is depleted again; /2-0 fullness/ No sprint

While I do agree with the points made, I can't agree to most of the solutions proposed. First of all, making food heal you doesn't actually change much of anything since even now you want to have a stack of steak and a stack of golden carrots/apples for the best results. Also, it'd incentivize that players take breaks even more often during combat, ensuring there's always a safe 1x2 space they can block themselves in to heal up by eating. Not only that, it invalidates potions of instant health entirely since they're unstackable so they're infinitely worse than a stack of health restoring food. (Potions are getting a rework soon so this last argument might fall off in a bit.) Second of all, making sprinting a luxury is simply terrible. The Minecraft world is absolutely huge and sprinting helps a lot with that. Instead of nerfing sprinting, I'd personally recommend buffing the other transportation methods. Horses are terrible in every regard and have been since their release and minecarts can easily have their speed doubled to increase their benefit so buffing them makes way more sense than nerfing sprinting. Lastly, the mobs. Again, I'd rather buff them in different and interesting ways than nerf the player. Creepers should get better at... well, creeping. Sneaking up to the player when they're not seen and avoiding the player when they are seen and too far to do much. Zombies should have a horde effect when one of them spots a player, trying to surround them. Skeletons spawning with mounts should be more common so that players sprinting can only do so much for them. Making the mobs more interesting and challenging themselves is imo better than limiting what the player can do. On a closing note, Minecraft is a casual game. Even on its hardest difficulty setting, it's not meant to play like Dark Souls but rather an adventure to be enjoyed by a player who may have never touched a game before. Even on Survival, the creative elements of Minecraft are what are going to bring players in and keep them playing. Veering the difficulty too much into the hardcore gamer territory doesn't feel like a good change but, once again, I do agree that most of the game's systems are in need of change from what they currently are.

last time I starved in Minecraft? Starting a 1.2.5 SMP where none of us had food for awhile.

In My experience, another thing that makes the Game much less intriging is that villages are WAY TOO COMMON, now i don't feel the need to make an early base or the urgency to get resources because i KNOW that i'll find a Village much sooner if i just keep walking, a free safe place with a lot Of food, items and even safety from hostile mobs

You should try Minecraft Ultra-Hardcore difficulty. No mods. When you make a new world, make sure to disable “natural health regeneration” in advanced options. Now you’ll need to aquire regeneration some other way, other than food to heal. Except for golden carrots, but those require gold.

I feel like instead of nerfing how the player navigates the workd, Mojang should update the alternatives. Minecarts used to be A LOT faster, so they were actually worth setting up. Same for horses. Maybe sprinting can be a tad bit slower, but i feel like thats all that really needs to be done. Also, they could make the mobs faster and fix their AI, bc they literally havent touched the mob AI in like 10 years. Nerfing the player is definitely not a good route, especially when u could simply make the game itself more engaging. And the mobs' speed could be based on difficulty as well, with u being able to run away from all mobs on easy, be able to run from most on normal, and barely get out alive on Hard mode. Aldo, the eating system is like this mainly for combat purposes. You're sacrificing your speed to heal which makes combat situations very stressful sometimes with you having to maneuver the landscape in order to safely make it out to eat and heal

Never heard of anyone actually complaining about “wasted time” because they have to eat. The game has one of the worst progression issues in gaming. I can get full diamond in 20-30 minutes if I want to. And the end boss realistically, even if you’re not speed running can be done in like 3 hours if you’re not unlucky with nether fortress spawns. In a game that has little to no necessary grind to beat it, finding food is something I’m happy I have to do. It gives me more to do. I wouldn’t even be opposed to having more to manage like a thirst bar, but that’s just me.

When you mention the minecart speed compared to run speed my first respon wasnt running is too fast but minecarts are too slow

In my opinion the problem is that there are the best sources of food for every stage of the game. Early game-mid game-cooked potatoes and steaks, late game-golden carrots. In Don't Starve for example there if you go to random streams on Twitch every streamer will use different kinds of food just for the food routine. In Minecraft they will be using only previously mentioned kinds of food

Here’s my solution for the health problem which would change the system but add way more simplistic complexity. First of all I’ll make sprinting for long distances still an option because it’s quite helpful for moving around in large bases. To fix this problem of feeling of overpowering speed I’ll would make wearing armor slow a player or cause them to loose hunger quicker causing sprinting to be a luxury ability. Each armor type would add complexity, no armor for max speed, chain for basically no difference, gold for a notable difference, iron for 1/3 the speed, diamonds for 1/2 the speed, and netherite for no sprinting or short bursts. I feel like this would definitely improve late game for more use of mechanics like the mine-cart since you can’t move effectively without the threat of damage. To add more complexity I would make weight also effects your ability to ride horses and the glider plus armor on horses would cause that horse to become slower as a result. Secondly I would make health regeneration still a thing but I would make it harder to be effective. Depending the food you eat would cause some status effects like sprint for a couple seconds or active health regeneration for a few seconds, more the complexity the food more effectively it would do that effect. Bread and steak would amazing short time of hunger but when you get slower you get more trouble so pumpkin pie or golden apples would be a better pick. This fix the major issue of complex food other than golden apples or golden carrots having relevance late game also it makes potions seem or favorably because they are way more effective than something that makes you faster for 4 seconds. Third of all I would change weapons with this weight system by adding you swing time and knock back changes by the material, making late game more slow down but extremely rewarding. Wood tools swing be extremely quick but weak with no knock back but neitherite be slow but powerful with knock back 4 making a must have for strong enemies, it also makes a haste such a important status effect. Of course this would my fix for this issue but of course I’m not a multi million dollar company 😂