Example; I ate an energizing stew. Ingame message said that I received 1400 gain to energy, level 2 energize, and “fed up”.
What does level 2 energize mean?
What does “fed up” mean and which icon on my HUD is it?
Moreover, what is the point to eating energizing stew, meaty broth or something similar when I can just eat cooked meat, which is faster and more convenient?
I went to chop wood and my energy drain on an iron axe is still 14 per action. So this obviously doesn’t reduce energy drain as someone had said earlier. And if it buffs energy hp, then it’s not clear by looking at the bars on my HUD nor can I decipher the exact number or percentage buff with the words, “energize 2”
I’ve put 200 hours into the game and I feel the UI doesn’t do a great job of communicating what the effects are. Or am I just dumb?
Energise food gives you a buff that stops your energy bars zero point from decreasing if you get my meaning. So while it’ll temporarily decrease while doing actions it’s maximum value won’t decrease for the duration of the buff
The energy bar has two ways of decreasing, 1: is the temporary decrease from using tools which will fill back up when you stop doing the action and 2: is a permanent decrease over time which needs food to refill.
The energizing food stops number 2
Unless I’m completely mistaken
Edit for clarity: It stops the hunger bar from decreasing but the stamina still gets used
Wow. I was unaware that my max alloted energy hp will decrease over time. I simply assumed that energy drain would occur when taking an action but never would’ve thought my max energy hp will deplete too. This really is an obtuse UI especially when the effects cannot be easily quantified by the user. I can deal with bugs and lag but bad UI just makes me want to leave a bad review.
Stamina is just stamina, it’ll regen by standing still. The overall bar represents hunger and you can starve if it gets too low. Running depletes your hunger bar, BTW.
The better foods prevent your hunger bar from depleting for a length of time, level 3 recipe food is 30 mins this buff is called “well fed”. Hunger is your current maximum energy pool.
When you have the “full up” buff, this means your hunger bar is full and you will start to regenerate life. You can have “full up” and “well fed” independently of each other if your energy is high enough from putting points into energy.
Starving is when your hunger bar is very low, at this point you take damage periodically until you eat to remove the debuff or die. You also have very little usable energy at this point and must rest more frequently.
Between starving and full up you have no buff or debuff just a limited maximum energy you can use before it’s depleted. When depleated you must wait for your energy to regenerate aka rest.
So I’m short;
Eating food increases your maximum usable energy between resting. This is hunger.
Using tools depletes your energy, resting will recover it back to its current maximum determined by hunger.
Using tools and running also slowly depletes hunger, limiting your maximum usable energy between resting.
Low tier food relieves hunger, but does not give a well fed buff. Is only useful if your higher tier food did not relieve all your hunger to top off your hunger bar.
High tier food relieves hunger, and also prevents you from losing any hunger for 30 mins. Meaning you eat less often.
I do agree that the UI is lacking in this department. It would be nice if they included an active buff section in the character profile with more detailed descriptions.
Energize food gives you a buff to increase your max energy, but your max can still decrease. It gives you the buff after it fills your energy bar, so unless you already had the energize buff before you ate the food, you won’t be full up or regenerating HP, or in any way benefitting from the buff.
Most foods that don’t indicate some special buff give the well fed buff, which keeps your energy maxes for 10, 20, or 30 minutes.
Also to add. The Zeal attribute skills and the attribute bonus skills will both increase the length of time the food buffs last for along with increased energy.
We really need food/brew stats in the UI
I’m trying to sell high tier food/brews but people have no idea what they do so they are afraid to spend any coins.
I have to set up signs explaining with the shop stands what they do.
Without that referenced thread we will have no idea what they do too.
e.g
‘Learn Faster’ - How much %?
‘Temporaly’ - How long?
edit:spellin
