Diminishing nutrition?

[Daredeviler_21]

Had an issue where a botanist had to rush to the DMC to get food because berries weren't helping anymore. I ate 50 berries and was still starving. Is this normal?

[Kaaven]

Nope, not really. Depending on the time-span you ate those berries in.

There are conditions which rise your food intake (make you go hungry faster) but there is nothing in the game which would made food stop working. So if you were suffering from greatly increased hunger, due to Fast Metabolism trait or if you were affected by the Wendigo curse it is totally possible that eating only berries during longer periods of time would not be enough.

But if you ate all those berries in the span of only several turns, you should have seen the nutrition bar fill up at least a little.

[Daredeviler_21]

I did take the metabolism negative trait, but I was able to live off of berries very easily in the past. When I let my hunger fall into starving, it wouldn't go up again.

[Kaaven]

Have you eaten any human/melonhead meat during that playthrough?

[Daniel@BlueBottleGames]

Did you eat any human meat during this game? Kaaven's spoiler text above is one situation that would match your experience pretty closely.

[Daredeviler_21]

None, and only ate meat from the DMC/ATN shops and from creatures I butchered.

[Coldflame]

Originally posted by Daredeviler_21:

None, and only ate meat from the DMC/ATN shops and from creatures I butchered.

late reply, but melonheads are considered human for the purposes of cannibalism penalty

[Daredeviler_21]

I know that.

[Argbrontsterop]

does Zom Zom's barbeque count as human meat?

[Kaaven]

@Argbrontsterop
Yes, it does. Although eating one time should not make you hyper-hungry immiedietelly. It takes several "tastings" to develop the full-blown effect of the curse.