The diet system

[Trippy Crawl]

I've been tinkering around and trying to figure out the best diet system for my dino's, and I was originally told that for most of the smaller dino's, like PT and troodon, the "two dot's and one line" diet was the best, as it gave you the bonus\special of Stamina decay decrease, as seen in this post: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2907344501

But I found it strange that the special diet did not show up in my stats, and after looking at other pages and comments like this one: https://www.evrimaquickguide.com/gameplay/survival/diet-nutrients , you can see that it either has been removed, or does not work.

I'm wondering then why people keep insisting that the +15% stam increase\sprint cost decrease and +10% Scent\NV range increase is superior to the +25% stam regen and sprint drain?
Am I missing something? If the extra Stam decay decrease they list as a "special" in the first steam post is there, why is it not listed?

[rustyOkin]

The diet system is hot garbage anyway, don't even think about it

[Madkou]

They don't even have a good handle on grouping ATM, and that's gonna screw everything else up anyways (bc it's all connected to grouping) so I wouldn't worry much about this, OP. Not yet, anyways.

It was probly an oversight, or bug.

[Gruffigummi]

As far as i have seen those % are all added to the base stats. Wich means that you can barely mess them, when fully grown. If you want to test whats best for you the results are much more clear when you are juvie. I never felt the need of testing it...

[Gloofin]

pure hexagons is the best, whatever guide you were looking at may be outdated as pure hexagons was changed in this recent update to be so very overpowered.
every playable needs stamina, some more than others, but of course pure // is a waste of time and pure S barely speeds up anything, only giving one buff instead of what the two hexagons give. also happens to be the most common for carnivores, with 2 lungs and the hexagon giving creatures being common, and starting out with one.

[Senjak]

lol play a Carnotaurus where more than half your prey just has to jump on a rock to counter you... and a boar gives you maybe 10% of your belly, not to mention the diet hexes. Oh, and youll run across 1 field and run out of stamina, you cant turn either and you need huge stamina for your ram ability.. so not only can you not traverse distances to maybe find something whenever the engine decides to spawn something, if you do manage to kill something... 1/10th of your size that doesnt just... out maneuver you... youll get 10% of your belly. 45 minutes hunger drain, so youd have to kill... around 7 boars per hour and you wont even fill your hexes with that. And yes its the fastest dino in a straight line... cant turn... and not significantly faster than anything on your player prey list. 1+ton carn with... galli as its diet? Ive never seen one in 50+ hours, not to mention even a fully grown one would be what... 5% of my stomach?

[Trippy Crawl]

Originally posted by Senjak:

lol play a Carnotaurus where more than half your prey just has to jump on a rock to counter you... and a boar gives you maybe 10% of your belly, not to mention the diet hexes. Oh, and youll run across 1 field and run out of stamina, you cant turn either and you need huge stamina for your ram ability.. so not only can you not traverse distances to maybe find something whenever the engine decides to spawn something, if you do manage to kill something... 1/10th of your size that doesnt just... out maneuver you... youll get 10% of your belly. 45 minutes hunger drain, so youd have to kill... around 7 boars per hour and you wont even fill your hexes with that. And yes its the fastest dino in a straight line... cant turn... and not significantly faster than anything on your player prey list. 1+ton carn with... galli as its diet? Ive never seen one in 50+ hours, not to mention even a fully grown one would be what... 5% of my stomach?

You're talking about Dondi's favourite dino to buff. You're complaining about the one dino that just keeps getting constantly buffed. I don't even get why you're ranting about it here, as this was a diet question, not a dino question. Why are you ranting on about this at all?
You have nothing to complain about, out of all the land dinos, carno is the most balanced and favoured one. You're even getting ANOTHER huge buff when gateway comes out. Come back to me once you've played cerato, or troodon for a bit.