Does sleep effect the rate of hunger?

[Hunter118]

I heard from somewhere (cant remember where) that sleeping increases the rate of hunger while you are asleep, which seems counter intuitive. is it true, or am misremembering things?     

[Streetwind]

It's more the opposite really.

Standing still greatly affects your hunger rate. It goes down to one fifth or something. This is made so that people forced to hop AFK don't come back five minutes later to a half-starved character. So it's specifically just standing still, rather than sitting down or lying in a bed, that gets this reduction, because players who are forced to hop AFK don't have time to get themselves into a better position.

As a result, sleeping in a bed has less of a reduction (although it does have one) than standing still, which tends to confuse people. But this isn't about realism but rather about convenience.

[Bumber]

I think the bed specifically overwrites hunger rate? That is, the hunger penalty for wearing armor, etc., is ignored and hunger is drained at a constant rate.

Edited November 21, 2023 by Bumber