Food going down Waaaay too quick

[BanditWarBoss]

My food goes from full to empty in like 5 mins.

I am not on a volcano or moutain.

What goes??

[=яενєηąŋŧ=]

Sprinting and anything else the makes you recharge your stam or health costs a lot of food. Also, cold makes it much, much worse. Hunger needs to be toned down a little.

[Alakki]

*bump*

[=7CAV=PVT.Binks.J]

About 20% percent would be perfect. Wouldn't be so bad if we could breed dinos for food though. A breeding herd of Phiomas would be awesome.

[Zourin]

Originally posted by =яενєηąŋŧ=:

Sprinting and anything else the makes you recharge your stam or health costs a lot of food. Also, cold makes it much, much worse. Hunger needs to be toned down a little.

Pretty much.

If you have a 'cold' indicator (snowflake), your food will drain rapidly if you sprint, and only slightly faster if you're walking or not moving. If you are freezing (ice cube) your food will drain rapidly regardless of if you are sprinting or not (and even faster if you sprint).

The same is true for 'hot' and 'burning' with water consumption.

The takeaway is to not be an impatient prick, wear comfortable clothing, and pick a suitable activity for the weather, such as fishing in really hot weather or staying inside if it's stupid cold out (or wearing leather and/or buffing your Fortitude). Save sprinting for emergencies unless you're 'comfortable' (no icons)

[BanditWarBoss]

I see, I see, well it's not playable for me right now because of it

[Father President]

I agree and hear you OP.

I love everything about this game, but the food consumption (especially when you are offline) is simply no fun and demotivates me to play.

[De Kus]

If you starve in 5min, you are not idling around in a house. You can go AFK to take a shower and come back not having starved enough to eat a steak. Cold and recharging stanima are usually the main reasons for having to eat more. Freezing can depleet your food in a few minutes (for example when you are mining in the freezing cold river).

As mentioned elsewhere, it's really easy to feed yourself. Dodos, Dilos and Coals are really easy hunting targets. Bushs don't even move and need nothing but a free hand to grab some berries (tipp: holding a torch allows one to gather berries in the dark). Pets help a lot to hunt even more ressources especially food. I can especially recommened Raptors for taming, the effort/benefit is really good. Attack a "pork", wait for the raptor to kill it and loot for ~20 raw meat.
With a preservation bin you can even store up food for when you relog, or in a tribe some can go hunt for food, store in the house and everyone else can just take some steaks with them when they bring in their share of work.

Conclusion:
Feeding yourself is rather too easy than too hard.

[=яενєηąŋŧ=]

If anything, food should drop less and feed you more, imo. It's pretty ridiculous that I have to eat 30 steaks in 10 minutes in a cold cave to keep fed.

[Fenton]

Originally posted by =яενєηąŋŧ=:

If anything, food should drop less and feed you more, imo. It's pretty ridiculous that I have to eat 30 steaks in 10 minutes in a cold cave to keep fed.

*sarcasm* But its very realistic *end sarcasm*

[Xuhybrid]

They just balanced it already and it was fine before. Stop sprinting at every opportunity.

[Fenton]

Originally posted by Xuhybrid:

They just balanced it already and it was fine before. Stop sprinting at every opportunity.

Whats funny is they are going for realistic, you don't need to eat that often after sprinting... Water I will give you but not having to eat every 2 seconds after a sprint is just plan dumb ESP when your chugging down steaks.

[Jcyrus]

Originally posted by TitaniumGamer:

Originally posted by Xuhybrid:

They just balanced it already and it was fine before. Stop sprinting at every opportunity.

Whats funny is they are going for realistic, you don't need to eat that often after sprinting... Water I will give you but not having to eat every 2 seconds after a sprint is just plan dumb ESP when your chugging down steaks.

Sprinting is only really an issue when it's cold. I run pretty much everywhere, rather than ride dinos, yet a lot of my food spoils because I don't need to eat it. It's at the point where I only carry 2-3 cooked steaks with me and leave the rest on my mounts at my base.

When it's cold, put on warmer clothes and/or hold a torch. If you're still cold, get indoors. Unless you have a lot of food on you, don't sprint around when you're cold.

Also press 'Z' to manually poop when your food icon is light green. It seems to decrease faster (and increase slower from eating) when it is light green.

And lastly, there are more things to eat than just steaks. Whenever you're running around press 'E' when near bushes to snatch a few berries as you go by. You'll barely need steaks at all if you use those berries. They have the added benefit of replenishing water too.

[JasonB]

I thought they patched this like 3 or 4 times? I've only ever had a problem with water in my experience.

[Fenton]

Originally posted by Jcyrus:

Originally posted by TitaniumGamer:

Whats funny is they are going for realistic, you don't need to eat that often after sprinting... Water I will give you but not having to eat every 2 seconds after a sprint is just plan dumb ESP when your chugging down steaks.

Sprinting is only really an issue when it's cold. I run pretty much everywhere, rather than ride dinos, yet a lot of my food spoils because I don't need to eat it. It's at the point where I only carry 2-3 cooked steaks with me and leave the rest on my mounts at my base.

When it's cold, put on warmer clothes and/or hold a torch. If you're still cold, get indoors. Unless you have a lot of food on you, don't sprint around when you're cold.

Also press 'Z' to manually poop when your food icon is light green. It seems to decrease faster (and increase slower from eating) when it is light green.

And lastly, there are more things to eat than just steaks. Whenever you're running around press 'E' when near bushes to snatch a few berries as you go by. You'll barely need steaks at all if you use those berries. They have the added benefit of replenishing water too.

Yeah there are more things to eat but lets get real. I never see any runner chugging down berries/meat during a long run. IF anything water is needed. Remember these devs are going for realistic. And its pretty dumb to see a hunger bar drop that quickly.

[wiz12268]

Its too extreme on the ends. Sitting around in a house you can not eat or drink anything (150 on each) for about 3 hours and still not die. Go in a cold or hot cave and you need to eat contantly, water not so much. So its the modifiers that are not close to being balanced. A cooked meat is about 40 points of health, but with hot and cold you have to eat them constantly to stay even, which is way over doing it.