How do I eat halva?

[pawelcislo]

Everything is so unintuitive and complicated in this game. I've got all those items in the backpack but no obvious way to use them. I'm low on health and get a warning that I should maybe eat some consumables (halva is one of them), but I don't see a way to do it although I've got 4 of them. The only option for halva is to drop it. Can someone explain how I'm supposed to use it?

[Zergem]

That kind of halva is just the current event item. It's only used for delivering to Gazi's Momma.

When you find food consumables in the world, you'll automatically eat them. Other than that, make some medkits and use them.

[alka]

As mentioned above, the halva dropping from virals is for the community event. You can only eat the halva you find in fridges and cupboards. Make medikits or go to bed if you are low on health.

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

1 alcohol and 1 gauze makes 1 med kit.
Or look for yellow ambulances and pick the lock. Yields 1 to 2 med kits. Will be hard to do during this week's event though.

[deek]

Or maybe, just maybe.. You're retarded.

[alexbruc]

You can keep on dropping havla to Mama. In return she gives you legend points.

[Poppi !!]

Dude, just hit every fridge and street drink cooler you can find !

Or...make some medkits. That works too. You won't really get squat from food sources.

[rexpiscator]

Ya, the Medkit blueprint is one of the very first Missions you undertake, a few floors down in the tower, some dude's brother, who turned....

[DedZedNub]

And later you will learn some other blueprints for other ways to make the Medkits as well.

Fridges and most pantries, baskets, cupboards -- will have some food. The lower your difficulty, the more the food increases your health -- the more frequent the food percentage in loot.

NOTE: If you are attacked in the process of eating, the infected may knock your food into the environment, you may see it and can pick it back up. Also, if you attack, are attacked, or sometimes move violently in the early stage of the eating animation, you may find the food dropped into the environment, and not benefit from the attempted eating of the item. Since the Virals are numerous, I noticed this happening a lot to me on Hard Mode during this Event, at less than max survivor level. So keep that in mind.

And yes, the Event's Halva and the Halva you find to eat are not using the same mechanism.

[pawelcislo]

Thanks for all the hints. I'm now prepared to take on the undead! :)