Meet Your Meat (beat those short spoil timers!)

[Raddan]

After taming my first dino I found that you have a walking refrigerator. What does this mean?

Putting raw, cooked,spoiled meat or berries (and probably anything else that has a spoils timer) into a tamed dino extends the spoils time by almost 4x. The interesting thing is that if you take it out, that timer is preserved in your own inventory.

Take raw meat for example, normal time to spoil is about 10mins. Put that in your dino and now its boosted up to 40mins. Cooked meat you ask? around 80mins.

Now I wonder if this was intentional, to make you want to have a dino follow you around at all times, or to at least own a dino, or is this some kind of thing that needs to be balanced? Either way I feel that it is pretty fair, does the mechanic make sense when relating to real life? no.

[Ultimate Fury]

It works in the game though because the spoil timer is almost ridiculously short for everything.

I would think most items should at least last an ingame day before spoiling if not more.

I kind of understand why it is short, but at the same time I believe it was made too short. Would really like to see a slider for this idealy as many people probably like the short timer.

in the absence of a slider to adjust spoil times I would like to see somewhere around a 50-100% boost to spoil time in the player inventory with the boost still in effect for dino inventory.

There would need to be a mechanic for making spoiled meat though (since it is needed for certain reipes and the scorpion), maybe combine poop and raw meat to get spoiled meat or something. Make it like 15 raw meat and 1 poop gives 15 spoiled meat. I think this would work great.