Stamina: Survival Reworked
Hunger in Minecraft has always been a bit of a nagging roommate: it never leaves you alone, and it constantly asks for snacks. Stamina: Survival Reworked throws that roommate out and replaces it with something leaner and more readable. This single zip works as both a datapack and a resource pack, so it slots into vanilla survival without demanding a pile of dependencies. If you have ever wanted sprinting and jumping to feel like real physical effort while keeping everything else familiar, this is the overhaul to try.
What Stamina: Survival Reworked Changes
The core swap is simple: stamina replaces hunger. Sprinting and jumping drain the bar, and it refills on its own after one second of not spending any. Sneaking speeds that recovery up, which quietly turns crouching into a tactical breather rather than just a stealth toggle. Nothing else touches the bar. Attacking, mining, drawing a bow, raising a shield and wearing armor all cost nothing, so combat and caving keep their normal rhythm.
Hit zero and you are exhausted. You cannot sprint, and you move slower until the bar climbs back to 20 percent. Food becomes a direct resource: eating heals you and restores stamina, and every food name tells you exactly what it gives, with labels like "Steak +4❤ +30%⚡". There are no new foods, no potions and no status effects added, and natural regeneration never triggers, so health only returns through eating.
Graves, HUD Tools and Broken Gear
Death is less punishing here. You keep your worn armor, your tools, weapons and anything else with durability, plus compasses, clocks and spyglasses. Everything else, experience included, is buried in a headstone at the death spot. Click it and your items return to the slots they came from. Only you can open your own grave, though that is configurable, and Curse of Vanishing items are still destroyed.
The interface gets several quality-of-life upgrades:
- Active effect timers appear in a column beside the hotbar, counting down in mm:ss and turning red in the final ten seconds.
- Holding a compass or recovery compass swaps the experience bar for a locator bar with N/E/S/W markers tracking you, your graves and other players.
- The recovery compass doubles as a mob radar, marking hostiles as red skulls, animals as green diamonds and friendly mobs as aqua hearts within 32 blocks. Fish, squid, tadpoles and bats are excluded to keep oceans and caves readable.
- Holding a clock shows the exact 24-hour time left of the hotbar, reading --:-- outside the Overworld.
- Gear that runs out of durability becomes Broken instead of vanishing, keeping its name, trims and enchantments until repaired in an anvil, crafting grid or grindstone.
Supported Versions and Installation
The pack targets modern Minecraft releases and ships as a combined datapack and resource pack, so it works on both Fabric and NeoForge setups as well as vanilla worlds, provided datapacks are enabled. Because it adds no new blocks, mobs, items, recipes or enchantments, it stays compatible with most other vanilla-friendly packs.
If you would rather skip manual folder juggling, the foxygame.net launcher handles Stamina: Survival Reworked through its built-in add-on catalog, matching each build to the Minecraft version you have selected and installing it in one click. That same catalog keeps the pack updated automatically, so a fresh compatibility fix never means re-downloading a zip by hand.
How to Install
To install manually, place the zip in the datapacks folder of your world save, then drop the resource pack portion into your resourcepacks directory and enable it in the options menu. Reload the world and the stamina bar should appear in place of hunger. Before you download Stamina: Survival Reworked, back up your world, because the pack is honest about its origins: every function, script, texture and model was written by an AI from plain-language requests and tested in play rather than reviewed line by line. Expect rough edges.
The pack's own code, models and HUD art are released under the MIT License, so you can modify and share them with the copyright notice intact. Some textures derive from Minecraft's own art, including the cracked Broken item sprites and the gravestone face, and those remain Mojang's under the Minecraft Usage Guidelines. This is not an official Minecraft product and is not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.
Final Thoughts
Stamina: Survival Reworked for Minecraft is a compact, opinionated rework that trades the hunger treadmill for a stamina loop you can actually read at a glance. The grave system, effect timers, locator bar and Broken gear mechanic all reinforce the same idea: fewer punishments, clearer information. Just remember the AI-authored caveat and keep a world backup handy before you dive in.