Why do I have to eat so much food?

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Why do I have to eat so much food?

Postby sabinati » Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:20 am

I've eaten the meat from two whole cows, one rabbit, and probably 50-60 apples since i logged on about 5 hours ago and I've never gotten above half a green bar for hunger. Is it because I'm eating such basic/low-level food? I've pretty much been starving or very hungry 95% of the time since i started playing. It really doesn't make sense that I could eat an entire cow and not be full.
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Re: Why do I have to eat so much food?

Postby Ferinex » Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:38 am

You're cooking the meat, right? Here's the breakdown of foods:

http://selb.us/feri/food_chart/haven%20 ... 0chart.htm
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Re: Why do I have to eat so much food?

Postby sabinati » Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:39 am

Yes I cook it.
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Re: Why do I have to eat so much food?

Postby sabinati » Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:44 am

Hmmmm so the number on the left column of that chart is how filling it is? I guess I should be baking more bread.
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Re: Why do I have to eat so much food?

Postby Krantarin » Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:51 am

Be happy you're eating so much-eating makes you strong if you do it correctly. There's no way you could take down a brick wall if you didn't eat hundreds of bears and or boars.
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Re: Why do I have to eat so much food?

Postby Ferinex » Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:52 am

sabinati wrote:Hmmmm so the number on the left column of that chart is how filling it is? I guess I should be baking more bread.


Yes, sort of. It was made by someone less than super-intelligent, or with a worse grasp of game mechanics. It shows how much of the -full- bar it would fill up, which is 10% of your total hunger. If you divide the number by 10, that is the amount of your total hunger it will fill.
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Re: Why do I have to eat so much food?

Postby theTrav » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:33 am

It's been mentioned before that characters get hungry too quickly, I think it's pretty crazy that you need about 10 square meals a day to sustain yourself, it also leads to stat grinding. I'd be much happier if hunger was slowed down by an order of magnitude
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Re: Why do I have to eat so much food?

Postby niltrias » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:47 am

theTrav wrote:It's been mentioned before that characters get hungry too quickly, I think it's pretty crazy that you need about 10 square meals a day to sustain yourself, it also leads to stat grinding. I'd be much happier if hunger was slowed down by an order of magnitude


Seconded. I think the devs have said that they realize that there is a problem with the hunger system.

BTW, be careful about eating too much cow and bread....its filling, but you will over-raise your Con and have a hard time getting other stats up.

I find it really irritating that the most filling, easy to get foods (bread, apple pie, chorizo) all pump con.
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Re: Why do I have to eat so much food?

Postby KoE » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:00 pm

After working on my wall yesterday and shoving the entire contents of a bear and a pair of pigs down my throat and still needing more, I have to agree. The numbers need some severe tweaking.
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Re: Why do I have to eat so much food?

Postby Crow » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:33 pm

I think it would be nice to slow down food intake by about 50% and allow us to gain stats though working as well. So you get strength for killing, int for planting trees or making food, etc. So far 90% of your time is spent gathering, processing, and eating food. It should be about 30-50% at most.
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