[2023] Food and Water....

Actually...the design is based on cooking meals for filling food that make it so that you don't have to eat or drink as often. If you eat the basic stuff like eggs or grilled meat as separate food items you will be eating all the time and barely keeping up with your stamina draining your food bar. But put the egg and meat together into a bacon and eggs meal and suddenly you don't have to eat all the time. Stews, pies, and dishes like spaghetti and steak and potatoes will give you even better results. Canned food is low tier and will result in you needing to keep finding more and more and eating all the time if you only eat that stuff.

The same with drinks. Make goldenrod tea and you will stay hydrated a lot longer between drinks but just drink water and you will be drinking a lot more frequently.

So you are supposed to progress in this game from basic to high tier. It is the same with weapons and tools. Using a stone axe the whole game or a wooden club the whole game is not going to give the best results which is why we upgrade to steel axes and steel maces. You need to do the same with food and water which means someone in the group needs to perk into cooking.

Originally posted by ShadedMJ:

Originally posted by Fatum: ...with the base food decay rate ...

You might be complaining about a mod because the base game does not have food decay.

I think he meant the "decay" of the food bar meaning it depletes too fast for his taste.