Why I cant eat food?

[BroDan]

Hey everyone, I have been playing PZ and from a certain point of time, I couldn't eat any food without combining it into som dish. I can't eat fruit, dried meat, veggies, crisps, mac and cheese, all fresh! I can't drink wine, juice, anything. To be more specific, I have an option to "eat" but the subtext says "adds +0 hunger, +0 sadness, +0 thirst" etc, everything is at 0. When I click to eat, the animation and castbar is visible, but after that the food is back in my inventory... I tried everything, restarting the game too. Did anyone have the same problem? Can someone help me resolve this? It's super annoying and nearly impossible to enjoy the game, when you can't just drink the juice or crisps without cooking anything.

[WillieSea]

Probably a mod you have that is incompatible with the game version you are playing. Or the mod is simply bad.

[BroDan]

Originally posted by WillieSea:

Probably a mod you have that is incompatible with the game version you are playing. Or the mod is simply bad.

I have no mod. Just the basic build 41.

[WillieSea]

I just went in game on build 41, looked at a bag of chips, and it showed the nutrition values. It also reduced my hunger when I ate it, and the chips were no longer in my inventory.

[BroDan]

Originally posted by WillieSea:

I just went in game on build 41, looked at a bag of chips, and it showed the nutrition values. It also reduced my hunger when I ate it, and the chips were no longer in my inventory.

Yeah, well I said it happened after time in game. Everything worked, but in some point it stopped working properly. Now the food is bugged or something.

[Lucifer]

If you’re not using mods, try verifying all files in Steam.

If that doesn’t fix it, I don’t know what to suggest. Never had this issue.

[BroDan]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

If you’re not using mods, try verifying all files in Steam.

If that doesn’t fix it, I don’t know what to suggest. Never had this issue.

I did just right now, didn't help :( I created a new game and it works as it did before. But when I load game I was playing, still bugged.

[Lucifer]

Did you crash while playing that previous save? It’s known to cause serious issues when that happens which is why this is called IWBUMS.

[BroDan]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

Did you crash while playing that previous save? It’s known to cause serious issues when that happens which is why this is called IWBUMS.

No, I did not, for sure. That's why it's so weird. It affects just this game and I did nothing with files or mods or anything. I was just playing whole day and the change came while I was in game. It looks like the food is not acting like food until I do something with it. For example, I can eat canned food, because I am opening it before eating. Same when I cook the food. But otherwise, I cannot eat it.

[BroDan]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

Did you crash while playing that previous save? It’s known to cause serious issues when that happens which is why this is called IWBUMS.

And I am playing Build 41 beta, not IWBUMS beta.

[BroDan]

Originally posted by EnigmaGrey:

Maybe I’m misremembering, but there’s no dried meat in vanilla 41?

Go to saves, click the save you last played, then it should list any installed mods for that save on the right (might have to click the mods button if present). The reason is, in build 41, mods are enabled on each save instead of the just global list (from the main menu).

I just called it like that, it is some kind of beef meat, and it is not spoiling one (something like beef jerky). I played the game in other language. I just checked the save file, as I said, I have no mods installed. The only thing that makes me think about that, is that my character died and I created new one, with which I came to the base and continued to play. But it happened just a few hours since I started the game, and I am pretty sure I could eat crisps with new character too. It just doesn't work now.

[BroDan]

Originally posted by EnigmaGrey:

Fair enough. Beef jerky is a vanilla item, not modded.

Do you have the highest “well fed” moodle? It won’t let you eat more past a certain point.

No, I do not. I was hungry. As I said, I can eat tomato, if i add it into recipe. But I can't eat tomato on it's own. It adds me +0 hunger, +0 thirst etc... I just tried something. I created a new character for this world, came to my base. I can eat crisps that spawned on me. But even with new character, I can't eat food I already had in base. Then I loaded save with the older character and he could eat crisps that I left there with new character, but not the ones that I already had. It looks like food that was already spawned, bugged somehow. New character won't change it. I don't know what to do...

[BroDan]

Originally posted by EnigmaGrey:

Could be that Steam messed up an update? Food items on spawn should be pulling their nutrition values from the scripts files, but it sounds like they're being set to default values instead (0).

Try going to %ProgramFiles(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\ and delete the media\scripts and media\lua\ folders.

Then, in Steam, right click PZ on the Games list -> Properties -> Local Files -> Verify local files ...

This'll redownload those files, removing any thing Steam may have left-behind after an update. Then try a new game (or go somewhere you've not explored and find a food item).

So, yesteray I deleted all my save files because I was desperate. I created new game, everything was going okay, I could eat everything, I have actually quite a good run... and bang... it happened again. I can't eat anything without processing it, I can't drink juices, wine, whiskey... It is day 8 in game.

I did what you adviced in your comment, downloaded deleted files again, but it didn't help. I don't know what to do... I am not going to start another game, if it is going to happen again. But I can't play it like that, it's impossible.

[shadow1980]

I have exactly the same problem. I tried to start over and the food problem still appears.

[BroDan]

Originally posted by EnigmaGrey:

Problem is that we've only had two people report this. There isn't much for us to go on.

I can't think of any reason this should break.

If you could upload the log (or send it to us at [e-mail]), we can take a look. Just make sure you grab it after you try right clicking a few times or immediately after it breaks. They're located in %UserProfile%\Zomboid\ on Windows.

I loaded the game, tried to eat a muffin few times. Here is the log. I can't catch the exact moment that the food breaks. Both times I ate normally and after I came back to base from scavenging and wanted to eat, I could not anymore. And both times it happened after I cooked a meal few times from ingredients. After that, I could not eat things on their own next time i tried.

HERE IS THE LOG: https://pastebin.com/E8JV8kQd

[BroDan]

So today I tried to scavenge a bit further and I can eat food found there. So, I have a chance to survive, but I have to get rid of all bugged food. I hope it will not happen with new food too after time.