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you're fairly safe, but your health starts to drop. Eat something as soon as you can
to fill your hunger bar, and rebuild your health.
Sprinting isn't possible when the hunger bar drops below 6 hunger points, or 3
shanks, as shown in the HUD.
Keeping a relatively full stomach at 18 hunger points (9 shanks in the HUD) al-
lows health to regenerate at 1 point (half a heart) every 4 seconds.
Health depletes if the hunger bar drops to 0, increasing the risk of dying from one
of the many imaginative ways Minecraft has on offer (see
Figure 3.5
).
FIGURE 3.5
The effects of extreme hunger on Normal difficulty: health depletes to just
one point, or half a heart.
There are some limits to the amount health can drop according to the difficulty
level. On Easy, health cannot deplete from hunger further than 10 points, or half
the full quotient. On Normal, it drops to 1 point, which is an extreme level of vul-
nerability. On Hard difficulty, there are no limits; don't ignore the hunger bar, or
death from starvation could be just moments away. See “
Food on the Run
” later in
this chapter to help avoid this.
Your Mission: Food, Resources, and Reconnaissance
Your second day is the perfect opportunity to gather food and other resources and to take
a quick survey of the landscape surrounding your first shelter, in particular to find some-
where suitable for your first outdoor abode. Keep an eye out for any of the following:
