Weight

[Nunninater]

Whats the max weight your character can be? I'm trying to not waste food, but I don't want to keep eating if its not gonna do anything. I'm currently seemingly stuck at 124.

[San]

I have no idea but, please, keep eating all that food: I'd like to know too. =)

[Mobscene]

Not sure what the max weight is, but you shouldn't just eat everything you find.

I usually start each game by moving from house to house and stores while putting all perishables in any freezer. Then move all that food to my own freezers for when the power goes out and have a generator ready.

You want to keep your weight between 75-85. When you are over or underweight you get some traits that affect your character until they are gone. You can see them on the Nutrition page of the Wiki.

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Nutrition

[Nunninater]

Originally posted by Mobscene:

Not sure what the max weight is, but you shouldn't just eat everything you find.

I usually start each game by moving from house to house and stores while putting all perishables in any freezer. Then move all that food to my own freezers for when the power goes out and have a generator ready.

You want to keep your weight between 75-85. When you are over or underweight you get some traits that affect your character until they are gone. You can see them on the Nutrition page of the Wiki.

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Nutrition

I appreciate the advice, but I already knew that. I'm trying to not waste any perishables which is why I'm storing them as weight in a sense. It really is a thing considering I don't need to eat till I'm starving now and lose weight very slowly. I also know not to do things like sprint vault or climb fences while my weight is high. I'm rocking clumsy on the build as well because I have bad experiences even without negative traits in terms of doing those things that are riskier. On a personal level it also makes the game feel more real to me. I would not be wasting the energy or risking the possible injury in real life to sprint vault a fence or climb a tall fence unless it was a must do. Do freezers completely halt the food decay process?

[Animalman]

Well you do need to eat because you’ll get hunger effects. And hunger fatigue if you starve. But you sound like you are in a good position to test the weight limit! So I would keep eating if I was you for the laughs of it. And the knowledge. 125 is huge I’ve never been that big. But I did approach 100 while chasing the cooking stat with a character. But I bailed at 99 and started to diet.

And btw

Food is not wasted in the compost heap. If it’s in there with a worm. So only waste items you will have is cans and stuff that has useless in the name. Like unusable metal.


Freezers do not halt food decay. But significantly slow it. Your food should be divided into stuff you’ll never eat until you have no food left, and then stuff that will go bad so you’ll eat it.

[Animalman]

What’s important is getting your eggs used before they expire: get them inside batter as batter does not expire until it’s an official cake. Same with pie dough but pie dough hasn’t used any perishables. Muffin prep aswell.