Food and Water needs

[Euri]

Can the timer on this get cut in like half and or the food we eat and drink give a larger amount of the gauge? I have never felt thirsty and needed to drink 5 glasses of water to feel normal again, nor do I need to eat 3 steaks 2 baked potatoes and 12 berries every 4 minutes.

[Zarlexsia]

This. I am loving this game so far but it feels very aggressive with regards to food and water depletion rates. Eat.. drink.. read a lore note.. eat and drink again.

Pressing ESC, while in solo mode, to go afk for a minute or two does not pause the game either, which is not helpful with those of us who have children and need to divert our attention over and over again; basically turning the game into an eating and drinking simulator and not getting very far with anything else.

[Jake]

The player character is clearly just taking their hydration needs seriously.

On a serious note I agree, shovelling gratuitous amounts of food into your gullet is funny in the MMO but still serves the purpose of healing/buffing the player but given that's not present in Dragonwilds so I feel like we could do with the foods/drinks recovering more, especially since we for some reason need 2 raw chickens to make one cooked chicken.

[Shack Ti 1]

+1

[Anwinity]

Yeah, the food/water requirements definitely need some balancing. I feel like I'm focused on food more often than anything else. Maybe it gets better later on idk.

[Etzion]

100% agree. I shouldn't need to spend a full minute eating and drinking just to be sated enough to make a coffee IRL. I get the depletion rates are probably so you use as much food as you cook for 99 cooking and don't just have 2000 steaks sitting somewhere but damn slow it down.

[PocketYoda]

Totally agree, these up time bars are ridiculous.

[Rain62]

!00 % agreed the hunger and thirst is ridiculous. I don't understand why developers get so hung up on implementing such a horrible game balance. Let's put in something to be realistic to survive but make it unrealistic on functionality. Yeah you need to drink 4 glasses of water and 8 steaks every five minutes to make it thru a day. Oh and lets also make to where a whole cow only yields 2 pieces of meat and will take 2 chickens to me one chicken breast. biggest dislike of the game by far.

[VeiL]

Ok hmm, last straw, read way too many threads indicating amateur, bad game design now.
Watched Asmon play it for a bit and there is so much fog in the air like as if there is a nearby forest fire burning constantly lol. And the lighting looks way way way too bright lol. Way too annoying to play for me. No buy. Bye.

[Get Worm'd]

water becomes trivial 3 minutes into the game, as soon as you can boil water.

food is almost the same thing buy it takes maybe 15 minutes, just grab berries and cook em with cabbage / potato and it makes cookies that do 30 hunger points.

if yall cant be bothered to do that idk why you are playing a SurvCraft

[Tachyon]

The recipes seem pretty reasonable. Stews, soups, berry glazed meat, mixed grills and so on, all very easy to make. The berry drink is pretty good, it seems. Better than just boiled water.

[ZeroKarma]

Outdated and terrible mechanic in games. A lot of games have moved to food giving buffs, not being a time/money sink. Valheim is one that comes to mind. Forcing a player to spend time collecting food, prepping food and eating is pure busy work considering all it does is reset a timer until you need to do it again.
This is why gaming is stagnant and regressing. Devs are making the same game as everyone else but not innovating or trimming outdated systems.

[valcan_s]

+1 , it be great to set the Food and Water scale factor to what ever you want so like: 0 - 0.5 or what ever you want as the scaling factor. If someone wants to turn it off like you can in NMS then why not, at the very least let us do this is Solo mode and playing with friends or on a dedicated server. V Rising is another good example that lets you set you world how ever you want.

In short options are good and that is my two cents

[Fable Neptune]

+1 The rate of needing to eat and drink it just to fast. It needs to be slowed down.

[Dragongirl]

Yes eat and drink is ridiculously to much! I love the game . I know it’s the beginning of a good game and they need our input to improve the game . I sure hope they do something about the eating and drinking water way too much. Thanks 😆