Why aren't Rose Hips edible?

[Bogatyr]

Rose Hips are an excellent source of vitamin C (even though they taste awful). Why are they only under crafting materials.

[Mystix]

I believe you need something like around 25 of them, then when you're at a fire use the Cook option and you can then make some rose-hip tea from them. If I recall correctly, aside from bumping-up your thrist bar some, they will give 100 calories plus can act as a natural pain-killer too.

[pazartesi_gorusuruz]

I think he knows it already but asks why they are not edible when you first collect them. Or?

[IFIYGD]

IRL 1 cup of rose hips have around 260-275 calories. So it would seem to be more beneficial to just make the tea, and use it as homeopathic medicine, than to try to collect enough to get any caloric value from them. Just my take on the reasoning behind it, can't say if that was the reasoning the Devs used.

[terryt3535]

Something else for the Vegans to eat.

[EN16M471C]

Originally posted by Gecko-GER:

Scurvy is no game mechanic, so why should they be edible?

Beeecause for the sake of diversity? Freedom of choice?

[reggiedunbar]

Because game.

[athikers]

Yep, they are food. When I was doing the achievement that doesn't let you kill anything I drank a lot of rose hip and mushroom tea. And cleared out all the cat tails as well

[Bomoo]

Originally posted by Gecko-GER:

Scurvy is no game mechanic, so why should they be edible?

The question is why shouldn't scurvy be a game mechanic? One argument against I can think of off the top of my head is the profusion of pine needles you can boil for tea, making any kind of scurvy gameplay inclusion mostly for realism for its own sake, and not necessarily producing much of any kind of interesting gameplay.

So, if you'll follow along with my reasoning, eating rose hips raw because of their vitamin C doesn't seem necessary to prevent scurvy since it's easily cured by other means.

Maybe if you proposed some interesting gameplay ideas around scurvy.