Use new mecanisms from campfires in minecraft vanilla
Throw a log/planks/sticks/flammables on a campfire. It needs to be ignited to apply bonuses.
Fed campfires will pulse an healng wave every 15 seconds in a range of 4/7/10, depending on its current level.
Campfires level max will fear the nearby monsters, slowing them by 99%, until the fire goes weak.
Campfires can be feed with logs, planks, sticks and all kinf of flamable thing, increasing its fire level and all the associated bonuses.
New recipes: stick to torch, log to charcoal, rotten_flesh to leather. Every campfire level will increase the cooking speed.
Modify datapack's options with the ingame menu (Patreon feature)

Campfires gives regeneration and protection against monsters by consuming wood.