Simple Nutrition 5e

Simple Nutrition 5e tracks daily food and water for dnd5e characters and applies the related rest consequences for dehydration and malnutrition. Supports both the modern (2024) and Legacy (2014) rules, detected automatically from the system's rules version.

Features

Daily tracking

• Tracks food and water separately for each character.
• Calculates daily requirements from actor size.
• Shows the current progress directly on the character sheet.
• Supports Tidy 5e Sheets with compact header buttons.
• Uses the current dnd5e display settings for metric weight and volume where applicable.

Actor configuration

• In sheet edit mode, a config button appears next to the nutrition tracker.
• Food and water tracking can each be disabled independently per actor.
• Supports actor-specific overrides for daily food, daily water, starvation threshold, and the saving throw DC — starvation threshold and DC accept formulas (e.g. 3 + @abilities.con.mod).
• Empty config fields fall back to the module defaults based on actor size and rules version.

Consume dialog

• Open food and water consumption directly from the actor sheet.
• Shows the required amount for the day and the currently selected amount.
• Supports consuming from already listed inventory items.
• Supports drag and drop for additional consumables from the same actor inventory.
• Supports Fresh Water Source Available for drinking without consuming carried water.
• Supports a free food option for eating without spending items (e.g. a tavern meal).

Rest integration

• Evaluates nutrition on a long rest that starts a new day, or once per calendar midnight when dnd5e's own calendar-driven recovery is active — either on dnd5e 6.0.0+, or automatically whenever the Ember module is managing rests.
• Modern rules: drinking less than half the required water applies Exhaustion automatically; eating less than half the required food calls for a Constitution saving throw instead, unless 5 consecutive days without food have already passed, in which case Exhaustion is applied automatically without a save.
• Legacy rules: eating less than half a day's food adds to a running "days without food" counter that applies Exhaustion automatically once it exceeds a Constitution-modifier-based threshold; drinking less than half the required water applies Exhaustion automatically, drinking between half and the full amount calls for a Constitution saving throw instead — either case deals 2 levels instead of 1 if the character is already exhausted.
• The saving throw roll button shows the pass/fail result inline and offers a separate "Apply Exhaustion" button for manual control.
• Adds a short nutrition summary to the resulting rest or calendar chat message, skipped when both requirements are already met.

Conditions

• Modern rules: uses the Dehydrated and Malnutrition conditions to represent blocked Exhaustion recovery, removed as soon as the character fully satisfies the relevant daily requirement.
• Legacy rules: has no equivalent conditions — Exhaustion recovery on a long rest is blocked directly whenever the full daily food or water requirement wasn't met that day.
• Keeps existing Exhaustion unchanged until it is removed through the normal game workflow.

Example

Daily tracking · Consume dialog · Rest summary