Here is my config, when I load the world I very briefly hear sounds from existing creatures (I was standing by my chicken farm) but less than a second in everything stops and I can't interact with anything. The game doesn't crash and I don't get any log entries at all, nor does the world save after that point. If I set hunger back to default, the game runs fine.

Should be fixed with the latest commit. Feel free to reopen if it isn't

Here's a build to try (for fabric 1.18.2)
test.zip