eating the lizards

[CHEEEN]

why is there no option to eat the lizards? if i can kill it i bloody well can eat it. this would alleviate problems with karma gate hells as well, since an apt slugcat could just farm the enemies.

dead lizards could drop meat when sticked with a spear. even if it's just one pip of food, let us celebrate killing those bastards.

[Blackenblood]

Slugcat can't metabolize meat.

[Blennox]

Originally posted by Blackenblood:

Slugcat can't metabolize meat.

Slug cats can eat bats, and a few other creatures, so that's probably not the reason.

[Blackenblood]

Originally posted by Blennox:

Originally posted by Blackenblood:

Slugcat can't metabolize meat.

Slug cats can eat bats, and a few other creatures, so that's probably not the reason.

Every single creature the Slugcat eats, is either insectoid, or aquatic, and is not really fleshy like most of the creatures in the world.

[Normal Primate]

lizards taste terrible! leeches too, yuck

[CHEEEN]

Originally posted by NormalPrimate:

lizards taste terrible!

tasted like... victory.

[solamon77]

Yeah, I wondered this too, but I guess it's just not on a slugcat's menu.

[Sparksoldier]

Well, to be fair, there are carnivores in the wild that can only eat plants, fruits, and insects

[solamon77]

Originally posted by Sparksoldier:

Well, to be fair, there are carnivores in the wild that can only eat plants, fruits, and insects

Wouldn't that make them omnivores?

[Sparksoldier]

Originally posted by Solamon77:

Originally posted by Sparksoldier:

Well, to be fair, there are carnivores in the wild that can only eat plants, fruits, and insects

Wouldn't that make them omnivores?

No!
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Yes..

Shush

[Thlayli ♪]

Slugcats just decided meat wasn't necessary through evolutionary jargon. I believe it's due to natural selection, where too many slugcats died fighting beasts 5 times their size.

[MadArtillery]

Originally posted by CHEEEN:

why is there no option to eat the lizards? if i can kill it i bloody well can eat it. this would alleviate problems with karma gate hells as well, since an apt slugcat could just farm the enemies.

dead lizards could drop meat when sticked with a spear. even if it's just one pip of food, let us celebrate killing those bastards.

Only some subspecies of sluggy can eat meat in general. Some are fully herbivores as well that can't even eat batflies, some are full carnivore and can't eat plants at all, the average slug is an insectivore. Eating batflies, small centipedes, and those blue insect cocoons. Usually seems to take genetic modification to make them do eat meat as only slugs turned into weapons seem to be able to. Outside of gourmand who's story is less reliable

[RCMidas]

Worth pointing out that even our chunky boi doesn't get as much nourishment from true meat as the genuinely predatory slugcats do. I hypothesised elsewhere that it's less that slugcats cannot eat meat as they are extremely averse to doing so - it may simply taste foul, for instance.

And the downside of intelligence and free will is that occasionally the ability to make choices will get in the way of doing what is necessary to survive. An animal operating on pure instinct will not think twice about cannibalism, for instance. Humans have starved to death with intact fresh corpses beside them.

[MozarteanChaos]

Originally posted by TI-Nspire CX II CAS:

Slugcats just decided meat wasn't necessary through evolutionary jargon. I believe it's due to natural selection, where too many slugcats died fighting beasts 5 times their size.

five years.

[cat68]

would make game too easy

[Shame]

This was necro posted with very little new info. Expect either Valve moderator or someone else to lock this pretty soon for that very reason, it's kind of strange.

The base game allows only Hunter to eat most of the killed creatures. The DLC has several others which can too. It just depends on the slugcat, The Spearmaster for example can only eat meat and by a very specific method from what I've seen and heard.