Weight gain

[o_O]

I'm so frustrated by the weight mechanics, I keep staying underweight no matter what I do. I tried eating and then sleeping, sleeping and then eating, eating and fast traveling, nothing help.
Are there any ways to keep your weight locked, maybe with the mods?

[Harolf]

Its part of the story, didn`t want to spoil you

[Ellorien]

It is quite manageable to keep your weight average. You can even become overweight. You need to eat several good meals a day, even if your cores are full. Hunt gators and deer, cook them (plain is fine), and eat 3-4 times a day. Sleep occasionally and before sleeping cook and eat 2-3 pieces of whatever stuff you are cooking — game, fish, venison, pork, mutton etc.
That’s what I do and my Arthur is average.

Craft satchels with Pierson in chapter 2 so you can carry at least 40-50 plain big game to eat and donate plus thyme-minty-oregano big game for missions.

[Trespasser07]

Originally posted by Ellorien:

It is quite manageable to keep your weight average. You can even become overweight. You need to eat several good meals a day, even if your cores are full. Hunt gators and deer, cook them (plain is fine), and eat 3-4 times a day. Sleep occasionally and before sleeping cook and eat 2-3 pieces of whatever stuff you are cooking — game, fish, venison, pork, mutton etc.
That’s what I do and my Arthur is average.

Craft satchels with Pierson in chapter 2 so you can carry at least 40-50 plain big game to eat and donate plus thyme-minty-oregano big game for missions.

thats the point! why go through all that to be average and then lose it w/ 1 day w/o eating. Its ridiculous.

[Metadjinn]

i heard if you eat like 30 chocolate bars and 90 bottles of moonshine you can get nice and plump

[Ellorien]

Originally posted by Trespasser07:

Originally posted by Ellorien:

It is quite manageable to keep your weight average. You can even become overweight. You need to eat several good meals a day, even if your cores are full. Hunt gators and deer, cook them (plain is fine), and eat 3-4 times a day. Sleep occasionally and before sleeping cook and eat 2-3 pieces of whatever stuff you are cooking — game, fish, venison, pork, mutton etc.
That’s what I do and my Arthur is average.

Craft satchels with Pierson in chapter 2 so you can carry at least 40-50 plain big game to eat and donate plus thyme-minty-oregano big game for missions.

thats the point! why go through all that to be average and then lose it w/ 1 day w/o eating. Its ridiculous.

No, you only risk to become overweight due to all those juicy gator steaks, not underweight. Why would you go without eating? Food is all around you.
You need to eat regularly to maintain average weight, that’s it. You won’t lose weight, ever, if you eat your breakfast, lunch and dinner and maybe supper if you had a lot of riding and fighting that day. And if you lose weight for some reason, it is easy to regain it within one-two days. And I mean, REALLY easy.

[admos]

I barely ever sleep, but I make sure to keep my cores maxed out every single day by eating simple big game meat.

I've only ever gone underweight after not eating for a couple of days, though I don't check every day so it's hard for me to notice either way.

My advice: hunt anything, and everything, always have your food stores maxed out for both cooked and uncooked meats, simple cook is enough. Use herbs only for the best foods so you don't need to farm them as much.

Even 1 star game is fine, just carve the meat. This is especially true for small game which you just keep in your pocket and don't need to stow the pelt; since they stay in your inventory even after death unlike medium or larger pelts.

[idiotdoomspiral]

There is a mod that extends the length of days, the base time is like 45 min for 1 day, it's way to short. This will help with weight gain. Fat Arthur has more health, good if you play with hardcore/survival mods.

[Man o' War]

The issue with weight mechanics is there's no prompt to know if you're hungry.

Added to this is the time mechanic.

For example you can spend ten or twenty minutes of real life time perusing say the Trappers wares but in game time the clock has moved on a day or more and now you're thin and so is your horse.

[Ellorien]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2916294547

No mods.