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[DG]

Please add a toggle option that makes your adventurer consume a unit of food or drink available in their backpack whenever hungry/thirsty while in travel mode or when using "wait" in the sleep menu.

[NW_Kohaku]

Make it so you can select what stack to eat from first, and then default to whatever is first in the list, just for those who want to nitpick.

[SuicideJunkie]

Don't forget the beer helmets, you get thirsty faster than hungry after all.

[aka010101]

I'm all for just having the eating and drinking commands available while fast traveling. But it's a good idea, saves you from having to drop out of fast travel just to have lunch. Plus this would be an easy addition, less work for toady, which gives him more time to give us other dorfy goodness.

[Jeoshua]

There was a "feature" like this in another roguelike (actually more of a *band) I played.  Can't remember specifically which one, but when traveling the overworld map one would eat and drink from their pack as-needed.  Once you ran out, travel would stop and the player would have to go screen-by-screen to either find food or a stream, and might eventually die.

So I deffinitely think this is a good little idea.  I've actually modded features like this into other games which have "hardcore needs" mods like Fallout 3 and New Vegas before.  It's almost required when you're playing an action game.  I mean it's realistic to need to eat and drink, but actually somewhat UNrealistic to have to be concerned with it at all times.

Hell, I'll bet a good number of you reading this post are eating food right now, and didn't even realize you'd gotten anything to eat yet*.  In real life, eating and drinking are so necessary, they can almost become automatic.

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Like me.  I have a tall glass of coffee and barely even realized it was there until I wrote this post.

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Kohaku brings up a point.  We wouldn't want adventurers automatically munching on their raw dragon meat they were lugging around for whatever reason.  Especially if diseased (interaction-laden) meat is a possibility.  It might be best to have some kind of separate "lunch box" list, where food you wanted automatically eaten could be put.  Food that was just loose in your pack wouldn't be eaten automatically, but the waterskin full of booze and the sammiches you put in the lunch box would be.

[SuicideJunkie]

For a stock example, your vial of emergency-only vampire blood.
Wouldn't want to drink that until you find yourself stunned at the bottom of the ocean or surrounded by zombies.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Why not? Vampirism is permanent.

[IT 000]

For a stock example, your vial of emergency-only vampire blood.
Wouldn't want to drink that until you find yourself stunned at the bottom of the ocean or surrounded by zombies.

So glad I'm not the only one that does this. I also keep my necromancer slab and were-elephant blood on hand.

[Blade Master Model 42]

Make it so you can select what stack to eat from first, and then default to whatever is first in the list, just for those who want to nitpick.

Allow players to mark items as snackable like you'd mark them for dumping in fort mode.

[SuicideJunkie]

Why not? Vampirism is permanent.

It also locks your attributes, so you want to transform as late as possible, after you've boosted your stats as much as you can.