✨ Core Features

🛑 No Food Decay

Hate watching your health and stamina slowly tick down to nothing? Fatty disables vanilla food decay. When you eat, you keep 100% of a food's stats until its timer fully expires — no gradual fade. (Configurable — you can turn decay back on and keep the rest of the mod.)

🥞 Stat Stacking

If you really love Lox Meat, why stop at one? Fatty lets you eat the same food multiple times to pile on stats.

• By default you can stack a food up to 4 times.
• To keep it balanced, extra stacks give diminishing returns (configurable).
• Default: 1st serving = 100%, 2nd = 25%, 3rd = 5%, 4th = 2%.
• The HUD shows an "×N" badge so you always know how many times a food is stacked.

🍺 A 4th Food Slot + a 5th Drink Slot

Vanilla only gives you 3 food slots. Fatty expands the food bar to 5: a brand-new 4th solid-food slot plus a dedicated 5th slot just for drinks — so you can run 4 foods and a drink at once. Icons get a gold trim for a cleaner look.

Note: the drink slot covers every drink — including vanilla/modded meads that just grant a timed status effect with no food stats (Frost Resistance, Tasty Mead, etc.), not only drinks that carry food stats.

🥗 Dietary Synergies

Eating the right combination of food categories triggers a unique, powerful Status Effect — complete with its own custom icon — applied and removed automatically as your diet changes:

Synergy	Recipe	Effect
🟢 Balanced Diet	1 Meat + 1 Veggie	Greatly increased Health & Stamina regen
🩷 Sugar Rush	3 Sweets + 1 Drink	Big movement-speed boost
🔵 Fisherman's Friend	2 Fish + 1 Veggie	Improved swim speed & reduced swim stamina use
🟤 Lumberjack's Feast	3 Meat + 1 Drink	Bonus carry weight & woodcutting damage

Every synergy's strength is configurable, and all of them are server-synced.

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🛠️ Configuration & Data-Driven Modding

⚙️ ServerSync

Fatty is fully ServerSync integrated. Server admins have authority over all gameplay values — no-decay, max stacks, diminishing returns, and every synergy's strength. (Only the personal debug-logging toggle stays local to each client.)

Key options include: No Food Decay, Max Food Stacks, the three Stack Multipliers, and per-synergy tuning (Balanced Diet regen, Sugar Rush speed, Fisherman stamina reduction, Lumberjack carry weight & woodcutting damage).

🤝 Food-Mod Compatibility

Fatty is built to play nicely with any food mod:

• Automatic, open support: Fatty scans every food in the game — from the base game or any mod — and sorts each one into a category (Meat, Vegetable, Sweet, Fish, Drink) using its name. New foods just work.
• Valheim Cuisine: specifically recognized. When Valheim Cuisine is installed, Fatty detects it and pre-sorts its meats, fish, sweets, and drinks into the right categories out of the box, using Valheim Cuisine's own recipe ingredients as ground truth — not just guessing from the name.
• Full manual control: anything the auto-sorter gets wrong, you fix in one JSON file (below).

📁 The JSON Data File

The first time you run Fatty, it writes every food's real stats and category to BepInEx/config/Fatty_FoodData.json. After that it only rewrites the file when it discovers new foods (for example, after you add another food mod) — so a normal launch never touches it and your manual edits are preserved.

Want to change a food's category? Just edit that JSON file — set any food to Meat, Drink, Veggie, Sweet, or Fish, and Fatty will respect it.

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🧩 Dependencies

Fatty needs just two things at runtime (a mod manager like r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager installs them automatically):

Dependency	Why
BepInExPack Valheim	The mod loader (also provides HarmonyX).
JsonDotNET	Newtonsoft.Json, used to read/write Fatty_FoodData.json.

(ServerSync is compiled into Fatty and needs no separate download.)

📥 Installation

With a mod manager (recommended): just install Fatty — the dependencies above are pulled in for you.

Manual install:

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim and JsonDotNET.
2. Drop Fatty.dll into BepInEx/plugins.
3. Eat up!