manual eating?

[ANGRYSNOWMEXICAN]

Is there a mod that will let me eat manually? I was going to buy the game today but apparently eating is automatic? it's an odd deal breaker but that's a lame hunger/eating system.

[Reno Story]

why would you want eating to be manual?

How eating in this game works is that, at certain hunger levels, your crew will eat up to 50 points of food. 50 points is a full meal, which will keep them satisfied for a long time. Anything less and they will eat more often.

The reason it is automated is probably so that players won't forget to eat their rations while they are multitasking, since you won't always be paying attention to hunger. Moreso if the members of your crew are automated workers working halfway across the world. It would be frustrating having to make sure they eat food in between working your machines while the rest of your party is trying to fend off an army of bandits.

[Rusted Cake]

Kenshi is an RPG RTS hybrid. You can still eat food while playing the video game if you feel like it. The characters in the game itself will feed if they have access to food either on them, a friend's backpack or in a food storage container that they own.

Your characters in Kenshi function much more like units you can control rather than a personal avatar.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

eating can only be done via auto.

but there are settings to lower it, or raise it
or mods that disable it.

[ANGRYSNOWMEXICAN]

thought the game was supposed to be difficult.... This game is too easy. everything is done for me. It's nice Kenshi has a demo available. Avoids having to go through that whole waiting period of refunds -_-

[NZL]

too easy? have you even tried https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1619600173&searchtext=hard

[Rusted Cake]

Kenshi's difficulty depends on how hard you want it to be, crank up the stats that will make the game harder if it is too easy for you on it's default settings. Same as can be done with most other video games.

[ANGRYSNOWMEXICAN]

Originally posted by Inquisitor:

too easy? have you even tried https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1619600173&searchtext=hard

if i decide to buy the game later, i'll def be installing that mod.. Still would be nice to have food/sleep actually mean something in the game though.

[ANGRYSNOWMEXICAN]

Originally posted by Rusted Cake:

Kenshi's difficulty depends on how hard you want it to be, crank up the stats that will make the game harder if it is too easy for you on it's default settings. Same as can be done with most other video games.

That's the lame Bethesda way of doing things... And it doesn't change the fact that everything is automated for me. I'm happy with the game aside from having nothing to do... Can't decide when to eat.. sleeping means nothing.. Every review is "YOu wanna do this? You sure can" but I can't even spend the night in an Inn... It's sort of an unimmersive world.

i undertand this is the way the game is.. i was just hoping the game had some mods that could fix what's bugging me. Prob gonna still buy the game regardless, it's still fun.

[NZL]

its worth getting the game even if you dislike the eat and sleep mechanics the amount of high quality mods make up for that. when you get your ass kicked you will be spending plenty of nights in INN Beds healing lol. by the time you even come by food it will already be down your throat

[ANGRYSNOWMEXICAN]

Originally posted by Inquisitor:

its worth getting the game even if you dislike the eat and sleep mechanics the amount of high quality mods make up for that. when you get your ass kicked you will be spending plenty of nights in INN Beds healing lol. by the time you even come by food it will already be down your throat

Is there a short list of mods you can recommend? That first mod you shared is a perfect start.
I wanted to use one of those mod guides on the workshop but it looks like there's a lot of conflicting mods being used together.. It would be such a pain to subscribe to a ton of mods and run into problems somewhere down the line, however many hours into a play through lol

[NZL]

Originally posted by 🤡Stogie🤡:

Originally posted by Inquisitor:

its worth getting the game even if you dislike the eat and sleep mechanics the amount of high quality mods make up for that. when you get your ass kicked you will be spending plenty of nights in INN Beds healing lol. by the time you even come by food it will already be down your throat

Is there a short list of mods you can recommend? That first mod you shared is a perfect start.
I wanted to use one of those mod guides on the workshop but it looks like there's a lot of conflicting mods being used together.. It would be such a pain to subscribe to a ton of mods and run into problems somewhere down the line, however many hours into a play through lol

i recently been playing the complete base game with no-mods before hand i played around with tons of mods overlapping, its really personal preference just go dive into the workshop look for what you want install it all and start from there but for a baseline i recommend all the mesh fix mods. i mean there is some really good ones and some really cheese ones. you might want to go download a custom start if you think the default ones are too easy as well.

[Locklave]

This isn't a 1 character game, you might have 20 or more people. It'd be like if in Rimworld you needed to manually feed everyone every time they got hungry, that's wouldn't be fun.

You can build a town in this game, Farms/mining/smith.

Seems like you got the wrong idea of the general game play.

[Rusted Cake]

Originally posted by Locklave:

This isn't a 1 character game, you might have 20 or more people. It'd be like if in Rimworld you needed to manually feed everyone every time they got hungry, that's wouldn't be fun.

You sir have spoken my thoughts. Though you can play Kenshi with 1 unit it's not a Elder Scrolls title. This game is intended to have many units slaughtering or being slaughtered in brutal fashion.

Hints why I told OP that this is a RPG RTS hybrid, cause it is true. :D

[verybigcat]

Originally posted by 🤡Stogie🤡:

thought the game was supposed to be difficult....

Manually maintaining one hunger bar in a single character game might be considered "difficult," but having to manually maintain 50 hunger bars is just bad game design.

The difficulty of hunger in Kenshi isn't the process of remembering to click a food item every 30 minutes; the difficulty is establishing and keeping track of an automated resource system where your demand isn't exceeding your supply, and all the while surviving raids, exploring, recruiting, expanding your base, leveling your skills, crafting better gear...

If I were gonna make a list of things that annoy me in Kenshi, the fact that eating isn't MORE automated would be near the top lmao.

(Edited because I'm drunk and enthusiastic)

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

very true
as with mods you can have upto 256 people
having to manually make each one eat would be a nightmare.