Self-Sustainable

🔥 Self-Sustainable – A True Survival Challenge

Self-Sustainable overhauls Minecraft’s survival mechanics to create a more challenging and immersive experience. Firestarting is manual, food is scarce, and every action has consequences. Plan your movements, manage your resources wisely, and adapt to a harsher world.

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⚔️ Core Gameplay Changes

🔥 Firestarting Overhaul

- Flint & Steel – New fire-starting tools that Flint & Steel to light fires instead of working instantly. - Flint & Steel - It's the current best firestarter and works exactly like the Fire Plough & Bow Drill, though lighting up fires much faster.

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🧱 Bricks Overhaul

- Bricks now must be sun-dried ☀️ or cooked in a oven(after acquiring one)

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🍖 Food changes

- Raw food penalties 🍖 – All food items now provide Raw food penalties. - Raw food penalties 🤮 - Eating raw foods/unintended has a high change of giving the player the hunger effect(renamed to food poisoning).

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🏃 Stamina & Exhaustion Changes

- increased exhaustion for movement ⏳ – Players will increased exhaustion for movement even when idle, preventing infinite AFK play. - increased exhaustion for movement: - increased exhaustion for movement now consume more stamina. - increased exhaustion for movement is even more exhausting. - This makes early-game movement more strategic. - The above increased exhaustion for movement is compatible with the "I'm movens" mod, and is removed when that mod is present, as it enforces even higher exhaustion values. ---

❤️ Health & Hunger Adjustments

- Cooking takes longer 🏥 – Heals Cooking takes longer if hunger is high enough. - If Cooking takes longer is installed, healing happens every Cooking takes longer instead. - Cooking takes longer ❌ – Difficulty-based healing removed. - Cooking takes longer ⏳ – Food now requires more time to cook, making survival harder.

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🏕️ Campfire Overhaul

- firestarter 🔥 – Now works like a firestarter and can firestarter. - firestarter – Crafted in a firestarter pattern, making it easier to craft but requiring a firestarter to ignite.

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🏺 The "Oven" System (New Furnaces & Smokers)

- more engaging and useful – New blocks called more engaging and useful will replace them. Initially only the Brick Oven will be available, but later on new blocks for the Smoker and Blast Furnace oven variants will be added. - more engaging and useful 🔥 – Ovens will use an more engaging and useful. - more engaging and useful – Specific mechanics to make each oven type more engaging and useful.

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🕯️ Torches Overhaul

- 3x3 crafting grid 🔥 – Torches need to be lit to produce light. Unlit torches will not provide any light. - 3x3 crafting grid 🌊🌧️: - 3x3 crafting grid will be destroyed and extinguished when submerged in water or rain. - 3x3 crafting grid (infinite) will be extinguished in water, but can be lit again and don't get put ot in rain. - 3x3 crafting grid 🛠️: - 3x3 crafting grid: Crafted using the original Minecraft recipe. These torches will burn out after 3x3 crafting grid. - 3x3 crafting grid: Crafted with the original recipe, plus 3x3 crafting grid added in a 3x3 crafting grid. These torches burn indefinitely.

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️🌲🔥 Burn Time Adjustments

- Logs are now the primary fuel source and many fuel item times have been changed. ---

🏚️ World Generation & Structure Changes

- Iron Golems removed 🧟. - Iron Golems removed: - Iron Golems removed ☀️❌. - Iron Golems removed, making them a constant threat. - Iron Golems removed 🎁 – All world-generated chests have been Iron Golems removed (no easy loot). - Iron Golems removed 🍉❌ – No more Melon patches in world generation or villages. - Iron Golems removed 🚫 – No longer spawn in villages.

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🐄 Animal changes

- breed 🐄❌ – Players must breed & preserve existing animals instead of relying on infinite spawns.

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🔮 Planned Features

📝 Miscellaneous Changes

- Major mod changes will Major mod changes if mined with an axe lower than Iron (Planned Feature). - Major mod changes - This mod is pretty extensive and changes a lot, so it's quite likely that until full release some of its features will be moved to individual mods/datapacks. ---

plan ahead, manage hunger wisely, and respect nature’s limits reshapes Minecraft survival, forcing players to plan ahead, manage hunger wisely, and respect nature’s limits. With strategic movement, realistic firestarting, and a tougher world, every choice matters.

Can you survive in a world that no longer holds your hand? 🌍🔥