Character Weight Gain

[Dr. T]

My once-strong and once-glorious warrior now sprints around on the battlefield looking like the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Anyone know how to lose weight in this? I'm assuming he gained wait while being locked in under siege for several days, but even since then I can't shake it. Any suggestions?

[Duck]

encumbrance, as in how much your gear and armour weighs, slows you down

[Ambushbob]

i dont think duck understands the question, but i noticed it right after character creation my dude turned into a tubbo.

[mad kitten]

Starving is the fastest way to lose weight.

In general, the more time you spend in towns, the faster you'll gain weight. To lose it, you have to spend significant amount of time in the field, not entering settlements at all.

[Teralitha]

Originally posted by mad kitten:

Starving is the fastest way to lose weight.

In general, the more time you spend in towns, the faster you'll gain weight. To lose it, you have to spend significant amount of time in the field, not entering settlements at all.

Is that for real or are you just trolling them? I havent noticed any figure change on my character with this new feature, and I sit in town for days on end in the smithy.

[Core]

IIRC if you get into combat personally and not "send troops", that helps. Also not always riding around on a horse etc.
This was one of the intended mechanics but I do not know how it works in detail.

[Flippy]

Are survival elements common in games like eating and sleeping also being added?

My camel wont even look at me any more so hope there is a way to limit weight gain.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2057010971

[mad kitten]

Is that for real or are you just trolling them? I havent noticed any figure change on my character with this new feature, and I sit in town for days on end in the smithy.

It's very real, although "Pillsbury Doughboy" is not really a good way to describe the result.

Thing is, there are two different effects at play here. You get more weight by staying in towns, but you also get "build" (i.e. muscle) from doing combat - and these two are orthogonal. If you do both, as is the norm in most playthroughs, your character just gets somewhat stocky.

The daily effect is as follows. If you are in a settlement, or have been in one less than a day ago, you gain 0.025 weight per day. If not, you lose the same amount normally, and 0.1 if your party is starving.

For build, it works similar, except it counts from the date of last battle or siege. If there has been one less than two days ago, you gain 0.025 build; otherwise, you lose the same amount.

(Both weight and build values are fractions, ranging from 0 to 1.)

[hypehype]

Interesting mechanic, can you see the gain/loss visually or is it only numbers

[mad kitten]

So far as I can tell, it only affects appearance. And it's not exactly a big difference.

If you are on 1.5.9 beta, you can easily see the difference in sandbox mode, since it lets you tweak both on character creation. Here's how this looks for the otherwise-default male Imperial:

https://imgur.com/a/O8EKsrD

[LUKE]

Originally posted by mad kitten:

Is that for real or are you just trolling them? I havent noticed any figure change on my character with this new feature, and I sit in town for days on end in the smithy.

It's very real, although "Pillsbury Doughboy" is not really a good way to describe the result.

Thing is, there are two different effects at play here. You get more weight by staying in towns, but you also get "build" (i.e. muscle) from doing combat - and these two are orthogonal. If you do both, as is the norm in most playthroughs, your character just gets somewhat stocky.

The daily effect is as follows. If you are in a settlement, or have been in one less than a day ago, you gain 0.025 weight per day. If not, you lose the same amount normally, and 0.1 if your party is starving.

For build, it works similar, except it counts from the date of last battle or siege. If there has been one less than two days ago, you gain 0.025 build; otherwise, you lose the same amount.

(Both weight and build values are fractions, ranging from 0 to 1.)

I always thought it was because of high combat skills/strength or diet, is this a guess or have you actually checked the code out?

and about the dough boy, its not far off if you use the tarbard from the swadian armoury mod (which I believe is modeled using the layered leather tunic) and my character is very visibly a thicc boii

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2422048887

[mad kitten]

Yep, I looked at the code. It feels very incomplete (e.g. smithing doesn't increase Build, really?) - like someone on the team had this idea and started implementing it, but only got the first crude sketch in before they had to switch to working on something else.

[Seijana]

Same thing here, from much the same lifestyle I always had. My once fierce lean begum is really filling out her dresses these days.

If it was just the three pregnancies she should have fattened up years before now, I think some code is wonky.

[Leigh]

Originally posted by mad kitten:

Yep, I looked at the code. It feels very incomplete - like someone on the team had this idea and started implementing it, but only got the first crude sketch in before they had to switch to working on something else.

Pretty much modern game development in a nutshell.

[Thunderchief]

It should be if a town is under siege you lose weight because you are rationing food.

[Ambushbob]

but im seeing this right after character creation before anything else is done.