How can I disable double click eat?

[LucaBlack]

It's often making me eat things I don't want to when looting and I hate it...

[girlboss maxxing :3]

i dont think so but you can just not double click, or press ESC to cancel it lol

[Banzai]

As above, you can just cancel the action. Pressing space works too to stop the eating animation by forcing the shove animation.

Is double clicking food a thing btw? I have never encountered this. Sure, to pick something up double click works, but with the normal control scheme you have to rclick then choose eat.

[westrud]

I have over 1000 hours in game and never realized double click would eat something, always used right click.

[hardy_conrad]

Yeah my first instinct was to wonder if it was a mod.

[LucaBlack]

Well maybe it's a triple click, I don't udnerstand it well either, but that's the issue, if it's RNG it can happend anytime, and I read some people lost their long game by eating poisonous mushrooms that way. By the time ESC is pressed it's way too late already.

[Banzai]

You should generally have your thumb (or whichever appendage) somewhere near space when playing zomboid so just tap that if you see your character starting to eat something and it will break the animation. Also you could avoid carrying round poisonous food in the first place. If your forage skill is too low to identify the mushrooms then its best to not take the risk.

I did try it and double tap does indeed work for eating (quite helpful to know) although ive never had this issue in my many hours with the game. Just click and drag stuff to move things from your inventory to a crate or whatever.

[Armagenesis]

Just get a better mouse? Sounds like a broken mouse if you randomly double clicks on things.

[gonavy-beatarmy]

Originally posted by westrud:

I have over 1000 hours in game and never realized double click would eat something, always used right click.

Close to 2000 here, same.

[Eric James]

It would be nice to have some type of prompt before you perform an action that is going to off your character. Are you sure you want to drink bleach? You will likely die. Yes or No? Are you sure you want to eat rotten food? Etc.. Happens more than you think. I saw streamer eat raw rabbit before. Had no idea why he died. Had to go back and watch the stream.

[philaletheist]

Originally posted by Eric James:

It would be nice to have some type of prompt before you perform an action that is going to off your character. Are you sure you want to drink bleach? You will likely die. Yes or No? Are you sure you want to eat rotten food? Etc.. Happens more than you think.

that seems like it would get really annoying really fast

[Armagenesis]

Originally posted by philaletheist:

Originally posted by Eric James:

It would be nice to have some type of prompt before you perform an action that is going to off your character. Are you sure you want to drink bleach? You will likely die. Yes or No? Are you sure you want to eat rotten food? Etc.. Happens more than you think.

that seems like it would get really annoying really fast

Sounds like disaster waiting to happen, tbh.
Imagine you accidentally clicked on a rotten food while trying to pull out a weapon while fighting a horde. The game pops out the confirmation message that basically distracts you and/or fudged your controls.

[Banzai]

Yeah agree. Really dont want "are you sure?" popups happening when potentially in mortal danger. Have to say I remember dying to some poison mushrooms in an early run - power had just gone out so I was making as many stews and soups as possible with stuff I had lying around. Seems I had put some poisonous mushrooms in my freezer ages ago which ended up in one of my meals. Woke up in the middle of the night on a sliver of health and panicking (then died). Memorable death and wouldnt change a thing.

[Eric James]

Originally posted by Armagenesis:

Originally posted by philaletheist:

that seems like it would get really annoying really fast

Sounds like disaster waiting to happen, tbh.
Imagine you accidentally clicked on a rotten food while trying to pull out a weapon while fighting a horde. The game pops out the confirmation message that basically distracts you and/or fudged your controls.

As for the annoying argument, that would be entirely dependent on subjective opinion. However, A sandbox option that you would have to enable before you would get the prompt would work very well. Those who feel it's a game breaker could just leave it off.

As for the argument of accidentally clicking on rotten food so as to trigger consumption, which results in the "prompt of death".. That one made me smile. How does the prompt matter in that scenario? You're dead any way. Unless of course you're playing some mod that allows for you to eat rotten food and not die.

[VANGUARD]

There's an easy alternative to prompts, which isn't as disruptive.
Just add the requirement to hold the mouseclick on the item for a set time before it is ingested - i.e. a second or maybe even less.
It can be visualized by a filling bar or circle.

There're several items that end in a disaster when ingested, so it should always be a deliberate action.

[DontBeDegenerate]

Who double clicks? R-Click.