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SmartEat

SmartEat automatically manages food consumption so you can focus on playing without manually swapping items. It has two complementary systems: AutoEat silently selects and eats a food item whenever your hunger bar drops too low, and SilentOffhand lets you right-click to eat while holding a tool — without visibly changing your hotbar slot on your own screen or the server's.

The module is also smart about what it eats. Rather than blindly picking the nearest food, it prioritises high-value items when your health is critically low. Enchanted golden apples (Notch apples) are preferred below one threshold, golden apples below another, and instant-health potions below a third. Outside those thresholds it falls back to regular food, choosing whichever option restores the most hunger. This tiered priority system can make the difference in a tough combat scenario where every half-heart counts.

SmartEat integrates with the combat management system so eating does not interfere with your fighting rhythm. The NotDuringCombat toggle prevents any eating while you are actively in combat, and CombatPauseTime briefly suspends combat tracking each time a food item is consumed. For a fuller automated survival setup, consider pairing SmartEat with AutoBuff or AutoArmor.

Category: Player Enabled by default: No

Settings

SettingTypeDefaultRangeDescription
SwapBackDelayInteger51–20Number of ticks to wait before silently returning the hotbar selection to your original slot after eating.
PreferGappleHealthThresholdDecimal9.00.0–20.0Health (in half-hearts) at or below which golden apples are preferred over ordinary food.
PreferNotchAppleHealthThresholdDecimal2.00.0–20.0Health (in half-hearts) at or below which enchanted golden apples are preferred over other food.
PreferHealthPotHealthThresholdDecimal12.00.0–20.0Health (in half-hearts) at or below which instant-health potions are preferred over food.
CombatPauseTimeInteger00–40 ticksHow long to pause combat tracking (in ticks) each time SmartEat begins consuming an item.
NotDuringCombatTogglefalseWhen enabled, SmartEat will not eat or swap food while you are in active combat.
SilentOffhandToggleable GroupOnWhen you right-click while holding a tool, silently swaps the best food item into your hand server-side so you can eat without interrupting your workflow.
SilentOffhand → RenderSlotToggleable GroupOnRenders a ghost offhand slot in the HUD showing which food item SmartEat would use next.
SilentOffhand → RenderSlot → OffsetInteger2630–70Horizontal pixel offset for the ghost offhand slot indicator in the HUD.
AutoEatToggleable GroupOnAutomatically eats the best available food item whenever your hunger drops below MinHunger.
AutoEat → MinHungerInteger150–20Hunger level (out of 20) that triggers automatic eating.

Last updated: 2026-06-08 — Based on source code