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Field Rations

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Field rations are installed on the production server (Paper 26.1.2, plugin v1.0.0). Brew them in-game — no resource pack required.

Field rations are enhanced travel foods brewed with a Thick Potion and a normal base ingredient in a brewing stand. They restore hunger and apply short, PvP-safe buffs suited to exploration — not combat steroids.

Each ration looks like its normal base food with an enchantment glint (shimmer) and a custom aqua name. No resource pack is required.

Status effects and timers

Before you eat: Hover a ration in your inventory. The tooltip lists each buff under Effects when eaten: with a duration in minutes:seconds form (for example Slow Falling (0:45)).

After you eat: Standard potion effect icons appear in the HUD with a visible countdown timer. A short confirmation also appears above your hotbar (for example Gained Slow Falling (0:45)).

Waybread Apple has no status effects — only hunger and saturation.

How to brew

Use a brewing stand with blaze powder as fuel.

  1. Place one or more Thick Potions in the bottle slots (top row).
  2. Place the matching base food in the ingredient slot (below the bottles).
  3. Wait for the brew to finish. Each bottle that held a thick potion becomes a field ration.

Economics: Like vanilla potion brewing, one food ingredient can convert up to three bottle slots in a single brew cycle. For a single ration, use one thick potion in one bottle slot.

Thick potion

Bottle slots must hold a real Thick Potion, not water or awkward potion. Brew awkward potion into thick in a stand, or (for testing) use:

/give @s potion[potion_contents={potion:"minecraft:thick"}] 1
Ration Ingredient slot (food) In-game appearance Effect (after eating)
Stride Loaf Bread Bread + glint Slow Falling ~45s
Scout's Root Golden Carrot Golden carrot + glint Night Vision ~30s, Glowing ~30s; counters Warden Darkness while active
Stepfruit Chorus Fruit Chorus fruit + glint Eat: Slow Falling ~20s; sneak-use: teleport to landing
Deeptrail Cod Cooked Cod Cooked cod + glint Water Breathing ~3m
Highstep Potato Baked Potato Baked potato + glint Eat: Jump Boost II ~35s; sneak-use: forward dash ~6 blocks
Netherstride Stew Mushroom Stew Mushroom stew + glint Fire Resistance ~30s (returns empty bowl)
Waybread Apple Apple Apple + glint No effect — best hunger/saturation only

All rations stack to 64.

PvP balance

Rations never grant Regeneration, Strength, Resistance, high Speed, or Absorption. They are tuned for travel and utility, not arena fights.

Stepfruit (special)

Stepfruit has two uses:

  • Eat (right-click hold): normal food values plus Slow Falling for a short time.
  • Throw (sneak + right-click): throws a short-range projectile; when it lands, you teleport to that spot. This is pearl-like travel only — it is not a real ender pearl (no pearl fall damage, no ender pearl cooldown, no Eye of Ender or portal behavior).

Throw cooldown uses chorus fruit timing on the server config (stepfruit.throw-cooldown-ticks), separate from ender pearls in your inventory.

Highstep (special)

Highstep Potato has two uses:

  • Eat (right-click hold): normal food values plus Jump Boost II for a short time (enough to step up two-block gaps).
  • Dash (sneak + right-click): instant forward teleport along your look direction to safe ground (about six blocks by default). This is not an ender pearl — no projectile, no pearl fall damage, no ender pearl cooldown.

Dash cooldown uses baked potato timing on the server config (highstep.dash-cooldown-ticks), separate from Stepfruit throw and ender pearls.

Scout's Root (special)

Scout's Root is tuned for deep-dark and ancient-city runs:

  • Eat (right-click hold): Night Vision and Glowing for a short time (~30 seconds by default).
  • Heptera's light: While the ward is active, Warden Darkness (from a nearby Warden or sculk shrieker) is blocked — you keep clear vision instead of the pulsing black fog.

This does not hide you from the Warden. It only counters the Darkness vision effect. The Warden still detects players through vibrations and smell.

If you drink milk during the ward window, Night Vision and Glowing may clear early, but Darkness immunity lasts until the ward timer expires.

Arrow of Darkness: Scout ward still blocks environmental Warden fog, but offensive Darkness from Darkness Potions lands at reduced duration (~2s instead of ~5s by default).

Staff / developers

Local testing — from the repo root:

.\scripts\test-field-rations-local.ps1

Join localhost:25565 (no resource pack prompt). Then try:

/give @s potion[potion_contents={potion:"minecraft:thick"}] 1
/give @s bread 1
/give @s blaze_powder 1

Place the thick potion in a bottle slot, bread in the ingredient slot, and fuel the stand. After brewing you should see bread with an enchant glint and the aqua Stride Loaf name.

Deploy notes

  • Plugin: realmstriders-field-rations (Paper 26.1.2)
  • Deploy: scripts/install-brewing-plugins.ps1 or scripts/install-field-rations.ps1 (plugin JAR only; no texture pack)
  • After deploy: restart Minecraft or reload plugins during maintenance