Hey PK,
Brought this to the forums. My question is about the way that health and nutrition are working in game. It seems that no matter how well I eat, live, avoid parasites, monsters, poison, and radiation, my health keeps declining. I was curious so I started a new character and closely monitored his health through the debug menu. All he did was sit around, eat a healthy diet, and sleep, but his health still declined despite having a positive “Health Modifier” score. He was not irradiated, infected, or injured.
I believe that a beginning player should be able to put together a balanced meal with low skills, and I set out to simulate this with a diet of wild vegetables, meat, and (eventually) the occasional bone broth.
Once I began monitoring the needs menu, I noticed that it was possible I wasn’t getting enough calcium, which was contributing to my negative health. I began adding bone broth to my rotation, working on the assumption that I could probably drink one a day during normal game play. Despite this, the health value remains in the negatives, and seems to be getting worse.
When I expanded beyond my meat, vegetable, bone broth diet, and spent time collecting a variety of foodstuffs it didn’t work out to well: There doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day to eat properly. I can handle pretty much everything else that this mod throws at me, but I can’t handle the simple task of eating properly.
I did another test with no PK, just the core game, and following the above I had no health problems. In fact, my health was quite good.
I know a core element to this mod is the unstoppable decay of the world and yourself, so I wasn’t sure if this was a bug or a feature.
P.S. Your mod is the reason I started playing cataclysm again. I really appreciate your take on the game, and hope you keep up the good work. I also wanted to say that I’ve been really enjoying your videos, and can’t wait to see how you handle imps.
