Natural regeneration

For how this works in unmodified Minecraft, see Natural regeneration on the Minecraft Wiki.

Natural regeneration is turned off in Matcha Flavoured. A player's health never recovers on its own, however full they are; it has to be restored with food and other healing sources.

Mechanics

When a player first joins a world, the pack sets the game rule natural_health_regeneration to false. The rule is set from the reward of the root advancement, so it can be turned back on with /gamerule. Since 1.12.3 it is set only once per world; in 1.12.2 it was set to false again whenever a new player joined or a player first joined after the pack was updated.

The hunger bar is also hidden, and the pack refills the food level only when it falls to 8 or below, so once it has drained from the 20 a player spawns or respawns with, it rests at 9 or 10, below the 18 vanilla needs for regeneration. Only vanilla foods that still restore food points could raise it that far again.

Healing instead

• Most food heals through Instant Health or  Regeneration.
•  Raw Estus, dropped by zombies and their variants, heals the player when picked up.
• Warding stones heal nearby players.
• A crystal heart heals with Regeneration XI when used.

On Normal and Hard, a player with the  Hunger effect loses any Regeneration, so food and other Regeneration sources don't heal until the Hunger ends.

Trivia

• The pack's README lists "Natural Regeneration has been removed" and "Hunger has been removed" among its major features.
• In the design video, the developer says the change was inspired by the Beta hunger system, where eating healed the player directly.

See also

• Health
• Hunger