Hunger and thirst rate

[Big Chimpin]

Any ideas on how quickly they deplete? I realize different variables would affect it, like wandering around in a blazing desert and needing more water. I personally find it annoying if it drains too quickly though. If I eat a steak I shouldn't be hungry again in 10 minutes.

[Sunrock]

No one really knows. But you will be able to put points into reducing the water and food depletion.

[[SNOW] .Penniegrim]

As I understand it. If you host your own server you will be able to set the parameters for hunger/thirst rates. No idea how fast they deplate on official servers though. They said in the first stream that if you max out the food bars there will be a grace period before they start to deplate again. But everything is subject to change I guess.

[Renjimaru]

Judging by the stream (#1) stream i believe.
Theres a grace period you get after eating/drinking, Which basically gives you a amount of time that your hunger/thirst will not decrease (The icons turn blue while in grace period)
From what i could tell it was about 5 minutes.
It also took about 5-10minutes to run out of those values after grace period had ended.
Basically this gives you 5minutes to find your next meal/drink without any worry, Due to the grace.

(I'm not sure if they are exact time values, But thats the time it took in stream/realtime of said stream)

[Cofresi]

Yes there are setting for all of it. Be mindful this changes can be change by the admin.

Player Active Thirst Multiplier PlayerActiveThirstMultiplier Scales the speed at which a player gains or loses water.
0 = No loss
0.5 = 1.0 Water loss / second
1.0 = 2.0 Water loss / second (*Default)
1.5 = 3.0 Water loss / second


Player Offline Thirst Multiplier PlayerOfflineThirstMultiplier Scales the speed at which a player gains or loses water while offline.
0 = No loss
0.5 = 1.0 Water loss / second
1.0 = 2.0 Water loss / second (*Default)
1.5 = 3.0 Water loss / second


Player Active Hunger Multiplier PlayerActiveHungerMultiplier Scales the speed at which a player gains or loses food.

0 = No loss
0.5 = 1.0 Food loss / second
1.0 = 2.0 Food loss / second (*Default)
1.5 = 3.0 Food loss / second


Player Offline Hunger Multiplier PlayerOfflineHungerMultiplier Scales the speed at which a player gains or loses food while offline.

* 0 = No loss
0.5 = 1.0 Food loss / second
1.0 = 2.0 Food loss / second (*Default)
1.5 = 3.0 Food loss / second


This bottom are my setting for my server.

Player Water Multiplier 1.000000
Player Idle Thirst Multiplier 0.400000
Player Active Thirst Multiplier 0.500000
Player Offline Thirst Multiplier 0.000000
Player Food Multiplier 1.000000
Player Idle Hunger Multiplier 0.200000
Player Active Hunger Multiplier 0.250000
Player Offline Hunger Multiplier 0.000000

Server Information

Quest for Fire - PVE - Dedicated and Updated
167.114.211.165:27071

[Cofresi]

The values I have added make it feel more realistic. In the real world water becomes the most important thing and the settings here represent such. Needing water in about 3/4 of the day and food you can do without until about 2-3 days before you start to looses it. Alos the spoil rate has been reduce. The default setting are unrealistic. so I have them last a bit longer before they spoil but not to much longer. Hope this helps.

[Badmagic]

Originally posted by Cofresi:

The values I have added make it feel more realistic. In the real world water becomes the most important thing and the settings here represent such. Needing water in about 3/4 of the day and food you can do without until about 2-3 days before you start to looses it. Alos the spoil rate has been reduce. The default setting are unrealistic. so I have them last a bit longer before they spoil but not to much longer. Hope this helps.

Curious how this interacts with day cycle length, I play on half speed so the 24 hour cycle is twice as long also with further extended nights to make them longer, not quite 50/50 but more like 70/30 I'd estimate, would you just half your numbers again to get a similar result under those circumstances?