Rotten food problem

[CoLS Firestar]

It won't despawn ever. Unsure about animal carcasses but rotten food won't disappear. Fishing with it just results in more rotten food because I can't cook all the fish fast enough. Shouldn't it just despawn after a number of hours or days? Seems kind of odd that food has a timer but food rot does not.

[Owlie]

Rotten food could definitely use their own despawn timer to disappear on its own

[Melody]

I agree. Needs to disappear completely after a time.

[Cougarific]

Yeah I found a nice dark nook for my stacks of spoiled food but a despawn timer or the option to DESTROY it like you have with worn-out tools would be great.

[Thakard Gaming]

I think a lot of people are assuming that rotten food will be used in the future farming update. That being said having it disappear over time would be nice. At this point with all the spoiled food I have tossed into a pile I am probably affecting the performance of the game.

[CAPITAO_COMMANDO]

I have a huge rotten food depot in the entrance of my cave. It attracts rats and cockroaches. The cockroaches attracts scorpions and the rats attract snakes that attract harpies that attract jaguars that attract dinosaurs and it's a big problem 🤣

[Heinz]

I dump mine over the fishing spot. Sits on bottom ocean and out of site :)

[turk0gamer]

maybe in future we can plant trees and then use them... because for fishing they are useless

[Happy]

Originally posted by okruTGamer:

maybe in future we can plant trees and then use them... because for fishing they are useless

You think like Green Hell as a fertilizer

[bewest169]

too much rotten food to use for bait plus the time used to fish with a pole to get one fish meat is not worth fishing with a pole best to spear fish the larger fish get 2 meat in far lest time I have 3 large chests full of rotten food and growing

[Hardwick Johnson]

Dumping rotten food an other items into the wild will eventually create performance hits when you get within render range. Best is to make a simple large stick dump box and plop anything unwanted that can't be destroyed into it. If it's in the box, it isn't rendered, and thus doesn't hit performance. Sucks you can't just toss your trash into the ocean like we do today because we're idiots, but

[turk0gamer]

Originally posted by Happy:

Originally posted by okruTGamer:

maybe in future we can plant trees and then use them... because for fishing they are useless

You think like Green Hell as a fertilizer

yes and many other games... i think if its not despawning it has a job in future updates!?

[Happy]

We'll see how long the developers hold out.....or whether they give up because of wealth or bankruptcy, the game is doing well, I think, but unfortunately it's only a single player, which limits it for the general public. Coop would be a house number .But that won't be possible because of the time difference, the developers also admit that. Despite everything, have fun, it's such a nice game

[frillen]

Originally posted by Happy:

We'll see how long the developers hold out.....or whether they give up because of wealth or bankruptcy

I have +20 games in my library that never finished because of different reasons, I can't remember if any of them did it because they ran with the money, there might be, but I have several from indie developers who tried do everything their community wanted and failed on parts of it and in the end ran out of money, nothing with this game gives me an indication of that to be potential, time will tell though :)

Originally posted by Happy:

unfortunately it's only a single player, which limits it for the general public. Coop would be a house number .But that won't be possible because of the time difference, the developers also admit that. Despite everything, have fun, it's such a nice game

A coop feature is not the salvation that so many think it is, I have games where devs adding coop never paid off for them, and even some that ran out of money because trying to add coop to a game that wasn't build with it in mind from the beginning quite often turns out to be a bigger task than what many devs think...

Hold Your Own was a sad example of that, it was initially built as a singleplayer game, so it took the devs more than a year to make it coop, people lost interest because of no new content, and when it was finally done(sort of), all those "me and my army of friends" never showed up and supported the game, devs ran out of money and the game died, it did get picked up by a fan player roughly a year ago, he removed the buggy multiplayer part and started rebuilding the game with some succes :)

Stranded Deep got released into early access in 2015, it had a good start and was very popular, it sort of still is, but at some point in 2018-19 they began developing coop, promising tons of QoL(support for almost every language, all platforms including consoles etc.), problem was that real content for the game started to slow down to a crawl and became a MEH experience!
In fall 2021 they released coop which pretty much broke the game for both singleplayer and coop, they did get some of the worst problems solved and in August last year they went out of early access fully releasing the game, lots of things were still broken at release and today it is not in a much better place, but luckily people can choose the latest game version from before they added coop, so you can actually play it with a lot less bugs.

There are also singleplayer games that did get finished and became a huge succes...
Subnautica is estimated to have sold more than 5 million copies on Steam alone.
The Long Dark is estimated to have sold more than 3 million copies.

However there are also singleplayer games that got coop/multiplayer added and did it succesfully...
The Forest is estimated to have sold more than 12 million copies
Raft is estimated to have sold more than 5 million copies
Green Hell is estimated to have sold more than 2 million copies

Raft was a great example of where coop made a lot of sense, it is actually a better experience with friends because it can become very hard to keep up with all the micromanagement alone.

Green Hell was at launch a very immersive and brutal survival experience, it still is to some degree, but it also lost a lot of its bite and some features that made it a hardcore and exciting singleplayer experience, food suddenly became very plentiful which was needed for coop, exhaustion and sleep became very much toned down, however it still is a good game in both singleplayer and coop.

This has already become a wall of text which I originally didn't intend to do lol
What I am trying to say is that coop/multiplayer isn't the salvation for all games, for some it works and for others it takes away from the original immersion or even destroys the game.

I like multiplayer games, I especially like to play on dedicated servers in pve and pvp whether I am alone or in clan(coop), but I also like to just sit down and play a game on my own terms, whenever I feel like without having to rely on when my friends can too.

I also like a good simulation game, especially a survival simulation where it tries to add some realism, and more than often these types of games don't go hand in hand with coop - There is a place for coop/multiplayer and also singleplayer games, however I sometimes do get a bit annoyed when seeing a new interesting singleplayer game get bombarded with demands of multiplayer or it will die because no game can be fun in singleplayer and they and their army of friends will not buy it...

[Helena's Schwester]

Originally posted by CAPITAO_COMMANDO:

I have a huge rotten food depot in the entrance of my cave. It attracts rats and cockroaches. The cockroaches attracts scorpions and the rats attract snakes that attract harpies that attract jaguars that attract dinosaurs and it's a big problem 🤣

Or u put is in a Pig-tap

[fredust_air]

Originally posted by Cougarific:

Yeah I found a nice dark nook for my stacks of spoiled food but a despawn timer or the option to DESTROY it like you have with worn-out tools would be great.

Another vote here for to be able to DESTROY rotten food and remained animal skeletons too.