Once you aren't healing, you cannot gain energy without sitting at a table.
Moreover, you lose energy much faster than normal as long as you remain logged in
Assuming starvation hasn't changed, this has the potential to kill lots of new characters and new players. Who builds a table before they even have a claim up?
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Note: this is a repost with a better subject line.
(The details I noticed *first* were apparently part of an intentional change for world 16. The (presumed) starvation side effect on the other hand, seems to me to be a serious bug.)