any body weight addons?

[UshankaMan]

the game has led me to believe that 80kg of body weight is the ideal weight to be. yet i am always losing weight despite always eating to "almost bursting" quite regularly.
is there a mod where the weight system actually makes sense? cuz the amound of food im eating is enough to make ANY person an obese, electric wheelchair bound individual, yet i am still losing weight

[Shurenai]

What KIND of food are you eating? If you're stuffing your face full of cabbage, You're going to have a hard time keeping up on the calorie requirements. Eat a single stick of lard on the other hand, and you'll instantly stop losing weight.

Weight is a visible stat, but behind the scenes, Food has actual nutritional value- Calories, proteins, lipids, etc; If you're eating really low calorie low-fat food, You're going to lose weight.

[UshankaMan]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

What KIND of food are you eating? If you're stuffing your face full of cabbage, You're going to have a hard time keeping up on the calorie requirements. Eat a single stick of lard on the other hand, and you'll instantly stop losing weight.

Weight is a visible stat, but behind the scenes, Food has actual nutritional value- Calories, proteins, lipids, etc; If you're eating really low calorie low-fat food, You're going to lose weight.

i am stuffing my face with high calorie food like constant chocolate, chips and meat based stews. i literally made it so that food spawns alot more often JUST FOR THE SAKE of combating weight loss, and it is not enough. i stuff my face time and time again until i literally cannot eat any more yet i still lose weight. i even have the trait that helps keep that 80kg weight too, but it is no help

[L:D]

There's a mod called "Addicted to weight" or something like this. It doesn't change the weight system but it shows you how much weight you losing or gaining, not only that but it alerts you every time the game either extract or add weight in your character.

I has the some problem to maintain weight on my character, and i just started to understand how it worked after i did some test + this mod. Besides that, rabbits tend to help to maintain weight if you usually eats potatoes/cabbages daily.

Ah btw, idk if it's how it works but after i did some tests it seems the more you sprint, more you lose weight in a long term, so take care with sprinting.

[UshankaMan]

Originally posted by L:D:

There's a mod called "Addicted to weight" or something like this. It doesn't change the weight system but it shows you how much weight you losing or gaining, not only that but it alerts you every time the game either extract or add weight in your character.

I has the some problem to maintain weight on my character, and i just started to understand how it worked after i did some test + this mod. Besides that, rabbits tend to help to maintain weight if you usually eats potatoes/cabbages daily.

i already have a mod that keeps track of my calories.
rabbits? nah. this is day 9 and i am not a character who is an expert at hunting/trapping.
if trapping and eating rabbits is the only way to maintain ideal weight, then the game is flawed and stupid. should be fixed

[L:D]

Originally posted by UshankaMan:

Originally posted by L:D:

There's a mod called "Addicted to weight" or something like this. It doesn't change the weight system but it shows you how much weight you losing or gaining, not only that but it alerts you every time the game either extract or add weight in your character.

I has the some problem to maintain weight on my character, and i just started to understand how it worked after i did some test + this mod. Besides that, rabbits tend to help to maintain weight if you usually eats potatoes/cabbages daily.

i already have a mod that keeps track of my calories.
rabbits? nah. this is day 9 and i am not a character who is an expert at hunting/trapping.
if trapping and eating rabbits is the only way to maintain ideal weight, then the game is flawed and stupid. should be fixed

I never said it's the only way. Also you can get rabbits at level 1 trapping with no magazines needed, so...
If the mod you using is telling you how many calories food give to you and how much you losing daily, there's nothing more else people can help you with. You have everything you already need to maintain the weight.

[Lord Jesus III]

Do you want something like this? It's what I use on certain save files.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2908032256

[UshankaMan]

Originally posted by Lord Jesus III:

Do you want something like this? It's what I use on certain save files.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2908032256

by the looks of it, it works both ways. if im losing for example 2 units of weight per day, the default settings make it 1. but it also means that whatever weight i gain is also halved, so now im gaining 0.5 instead of 1kg. so in the end, i will still be losing weight. but thanks, i will def consider it

[Lord Jesus III]

It's a little tedious, but you could turn it up temporarily when you eat a bunch of weight gaining food, or set it to 0 if you want to turn off weight-gain/loss. If you find nothing else, that is.

[Inoffensive player]

I think the nutrition sistem should be rebalanced. it makes absolutelly no sense that you eat 2kg of cooked potatoes and cabages in a day and you lose weigh. The game treats vegetables like they are just water and fiber. Also the speed you lose it is nuts. I lost 5 kgs in 4 days, eating 2kg of food per day... and won them again in another 3 days... Its not realistic at all. Finally i think cooking is broken too. The better you are at cooking the harder is to keep weigh, as you get your stomach more full from the same amount of calories.

[ProtecTron]

Originally posted by UshankaMan:

[...]cuz the amound of food im eating is enough to make ANY person an obese, electric wheelchair bound individual, yet i am still losing weight

The coment above speaks right about nutrition with facts I didn't knew. Now your problem might be you're not consuming carbs or protein enough for what the game recognizes as a huge effort done throgouth the day.

If there isn't any mod related issue... Eat vegetable oil, raw pasta, margarine; and stuff wich you shouldn't eat IRL, those that give you thirst and unhappiness and get "full" with those. You should go up in a few days...

By the way, I've recently installed that mod "Stable weights" and it's great if you already have the weight you want.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by Inoffensive player:

I think the nutrition sistem should be rebalanced. it makes absolutelly no sense that you eat 2kg of cooked potatoes and cabages in a day and you lose weigh. The game treats vegetables like they are just water and fiber. Also the speed you lose it is nuts. I lost 5 kgs in 4 days, eating 2kg of food per day... and won them again in another 3 days... Its not realistic at all. Finally i think cooking is broken too. The better you are at cooking the harder is to keep weigh, as you get your stomach more full from the same amount of calories.

2kgs potato: 1,531 calories, and is 75% water
2kgs cabbages: 522 calories, and is 90% water.

Eating any combination of 2kg of just these two things in game OR irl, You're going to start losing weight. Further, in both cases, These things are tougher on our digestive system than our modern diet- Which means it takes more calories to break it down into useful components. Yes, You're putting in 2kg a day- But that's 2kg of pretty light food, IRL you'd pee out 75% of the potato, and 90~% of the cabbage by weight within the day, leaving 0.5kg or 0.2kg of digestible matter that your body is spending energy to break down further until you later excrete it out the other end. In game we don't have to deal with the bathroom bits though.

The average person needs 2000~ish calories a day to maintain their body weight, alongside a host of nutritional needs- This doesn't account for individual metabolic rate, height, etc, but it's a decent average that many live by without major weight gains or losses.


in PZ it's similar- But simplified and gameified a bit. First off, Hunger is detached from weight gain. You can eat 0 calorie foods and fill yourself; You could also eat pure fat in the form of butter or lard and fill yourself.

Calories in game is a counter ranging from -2200 to 3700. Below 0, You're losing weight. From 0 to 1600~ish your weight is stable, from 1600-3700 you're gaining weight.

If you hit -2200 and don't really do anything to fix it, it doesn't go lower- You just keep losing weight. If you hit 3700, any additional calories consumed just vanish into thin air.

Depending on general activity level you're going to use more or less calories daily- If you're sprinting everywhere all day and fighting all day, It's going to take more than if you're at base reading all day.

Additionally, PZ uses Carbs and Lipids as a multiplier- Each goes from -500 to 1000. If, between the two, you have 1200+, you gain weight 2x as fast, if between the two you have 1700+, you gain weight 3x as fast. Both of these decay over time just like calories.


So, To make an example, Let's assume a start of -2200 calories, -500 carbs, and -500 lipids, as this seems to be where the OP is at.

If you were to eat nothing but cabbage in game, It gives 178 calories per head, 0.71 fats, and 41.41 carbs.

Straight off, You're never eating enough cabbage to get your fats up without just eating a whole cabbage every single time you can stuff it down and continue to do so for multiple ingame days/weeks. It's such a low value and decays fairly quick all considered.

You likely CAN get to 1000 carbs if you consistently eat cabbage, but without being able to get your fats up, you aren't hitting the 1200 or 1700 combined breakpoint for 2x or 3x weight gain.

To get your -2200 calories back to 0, You'd need to eat 12.35 cabbages. To get from 0 to 1600 you'd need to eat a further 8.98, to get from 1600 to 3700 to be gaining weight for any length of time you'd have to eat another 11.79.
In total: 33.12 cabbages.

You'd likely also have to eat another 2 just to offset calorie loss over the time period it takes to eat all of these; So let's call it 35.

35 cabbages. Each of which fills your hunger by 25 which is basically a 1-100 system. You're full to bursting after 3-4 (below 30 or so hunger will start killing you). Getting yourself up to 3700 by cabbage is an absolute slog. But once you're there, you just need to eat enough each day to keep yourself at 3700, which is much more forgiving.


TL;DR: To gain weight rapidly in game, You need to get your calories+carbs to 1200 or 1700+, and get yourself to over 1600~ calories and stay above that threshold long enough to gain weight.