How to use food?

[Tamaster]

Okay this is driving me insane. I got water from a river, now i have to drink it but i cannot find a way to do it. How do i do that?

[^^o^^ BatCat]

This not DayZ.. water is used to water flowers / plants.

Food; nuts and other things can R-click in inventory or place on Hot Bar.
Can craft other dinners and things from plants you collect.
..or buy the odd trhings your missing in a village.

[Kazmeister]

It'd be worth adding in a "thirst" feature only if hunger didn't already increase so fast. After the first few days, eating becomes more a nuisance than anything else. I have a tendency to walk away from the game and leave it running to eat, to run to the store, to stop my kids from beating the crap out of each other, etc... And I come back to a starving player and followers, who I then have to feed before I can really do anything else. I wish they'd add a pause button for SP games.

[neofit]

Originally posted by Kazmeister:

I wish they'd add a pause button for SP games.

This!
Making players exit a single-player game just to go to the bathroom is beyond stupid.

[Kazmeister]

Yeah I carry a few turrets with me just for this reason. They cover me against baddies but that hunger is relentless.

[^^o^^ BatCat]

..a couple of hired followers go along way. (a couple Sentry guns work similar)

Not to mention parking yer butt some place safe. :)

[Cerberyus]

Try giving your followers ration bars and compressed biscuits 2/3. they don't eat till they are really hungry so give them the big foods.

once you find the earth camp, vera will teach you how to farm, as well as having a large stock of veggies and seeds and receipes to make better foods.

[Kazmeister]

Unfortunately after having to start over from scratch a couple times on story mode you pretty much only will want to play adventure anymore, and since they got rid of the "shop anywhere for anything" there are no good food crop seeds available anywhere I've yet looked. Best food crop in adventure is to lure aliens from camps and slaughter them with turrets for their puja salad, totally breaking immersion. So I walk away, come back, player and followers are starving, eat some puja and pass some to my compatriots, and continue on with slaughtering aliens for food, rather than farming rice with a colonist.

Side note: The "Shop anywhere for anything" feature was terribly immersion-breaking, but everything available through it should now be on a colonist somewhere for sale, or growing somwhere for harvest. I want food crops back for adventure mode.