Food and satiation

Your character carries a satiation value from 0 to 1000. New characters start at 700.

• Decay: 1 per 20 seconds while online. It does not decay offline.
• Recovery: eating adds the item’s nutrition, capped at 1000.
• You cannot starve to death: it stops at 0 and only the Weak penalties remain. Respawning after death resets it to 300.

One game day is three real hours. The tuning anchor is one meal per game day.

The bands

The system is framed as a buff: the baseline is ordinary, being well fed earns a bonus, and penalties only exist at the extremes.

State	Range	Move speed	Attack speed	Max carry	HP regen
Stuffed	851–1000	—	—	—	—
Well-Fed	300–850	×1.1	×1.1	×1.15	—
Hungry	100–300	—	—	—	—
Weak	0–100	×0.75	×0.75	×0.6	stops

You should spend most of your time Well-Fed — monster difficulty and the rest of the balance are tuned assuming it.

Stuffed isn’t a penalty, but it isn’t a bonus either

Eating below 800 clamps the result at 850, so a single piece of jerky can’t knock you out of Well-Fed; the excess is simply discarded. Only eating at 800 or above pushes the overflow through into Stuffed, which digests back down. At 1000 you can’t eat at all.

The carry multiplier applies to STR × 15. Losing the Well-Fed buff or going Weak can put you over the limit — that doesn’t stop you moving, it just refuses new pickups and purchases.

Food list

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Name	Nutrition	Lasts about	Weight	Nutrition / kg	Shop	Nutrition / copper	Source
Grilled Sturgeon	900	40.0 game hours	4 kg	225	15s	0.6	Grill a fish you caught
Lembas Wafer	600	26.7 game hours	0.15 kg	4000	60c	10.0	Shop
Bread	540	24.0 game hours	1 kg	540	20c	27.0	Shop
Grilled Salmon	480	21.3 game hours	2 kg	240	2s	2.4	Grill a fish you caught
Jerky	300	13.3 game hours	0.25 kg	1200	30c	10.0	Shop
Grilled Trout	300	13.3 game hours	1 kg	300	60c	5.0	Grill a fish you caught
Cheese	180	8.0 game hours	0.4 kg	450	12c	15.0	Shop
Grilled Perch	180	8.0 game hours	0.5 kg	360	25c	7.2	Grill a fish you caught
Grilled Minnow	90	4.0 game hours	0.2 kg	450	10c	9.0	Grill a fish you caught
Apple	60	2.7 game hours	0.3 kg	200	3c	20.0	Shop

What to carry

The two efficiency columns above answer it:

• Nutrition per kg — the bag has a weight limit, so this is the column for long trips.
• Nutrition per copper — the column for when money is tight.

Among shop food, Lembas Wafer is the most weight-efficient and Bread is the most cost-efficient.

Grilled fish generally beat shop food — but you have to catch them and you need a fire.

Campfires and grilling

A Campfire Kit (30c, 2 kg) lights a fire in the field and burns for ten minutes.

Grilling a fish removes the poisoning risk, raises the nutrition sharply, and raises the sale price.

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Raw	Raw nutrition	Raw risk	Grilled	Nutrition	Multiplier
Raw Minnow	40	Can cause food poisoning	Grilled Minnow	90	×2.3
Raw Perch	40	Can cause food poisoning	Grilled Perch	180	×4.5
Raw Trout	40	Can cause food poisoning	Grilled Trout	300	×7.5
River Salmon	40	Can cause food poisoning	Grilled Salmon	480	×12.0
Golden Sturgeon	40	Can cause food poisoning	Grilled Sturgeon	900	×22.5

Food does not restore health — that’s the potion’s job. Fish are the exception: they keep their healing effect as well (see Fishing).

Food poisoning

Eating raw fish can cause it. It lasts five minutes:

Effect	Multiplier
Move speed	×0.6
Attack speed	×0.6
Max carry	×0.6
Satiation decay	4× faster
HP regen	stops

These multiply with your current satiation state: Well-Fed still leaves you at ×0.66 (1.1 × 0.6), and Weak at ×0.45. Re-infection only refreshes the duration; it doesn’t stack. It deals no damage — consistent with the rule that hunger never kills you.