Proposing AutoEat

[Erk]

The idea of a “stomach” tab in advanced inventory is awesome. I’m totally down with that.

I’d also love it if it was possible to sort food by expiry date, joy, quench, and calories. And, to go the extra mile, “optimal quench” and “optimal calories”, ie. Higher joy: quench and joy: calories ratios.

[Invalid_Username]

The idea of a “stomach” tab in advanced inventory is awesome. I’m totally down with that.

Only if it acts like it does when you move stuff into a fire via advanced inventory, i.e. some things get automatically destroyed, some things immediately begin to dissolve, etc. Otherwise you run into Unawares’s quantum bulimia problem.

[Erk]

I have no idea what you mean there.

I assume you’d move them into your “eat” inventory and then when you close the interface your character would start eating them

[Unawares]

Currently when you use the advanced inventory time passes as you make changes in the menu. So handling of potential interruptions etc is already built in. Probably an advantage for implementation. My original autoeat idea would have to be able to handle that too, perhaps in a way similar to batch crafting.

[Unawares]

Only if it acts like it does when you move stuff into a fire via advanced inventory, i.e. some things get automatically destroyed, some things immediately begin to dissolve, etc. Otherwise you run into Unawares’s quantum bulimia problem.

Maybe it needs no inventory list for the stomach at all. Just display updated character info on that side. Hunger, thirst, morale, etc.

[nameless_survivor]

Hell, if the eat menu just didn’t close each time you ate something, it would make things a LOT nicer. Shift-e, a couple keystrokes, and eat eat eat.

[Unawares]

Hell, if the eat menu just didn’t close each time you ate something, it would make things a LOT nicer.

Ha! So very true!

[TheZoneWizard]

Personally. I like to choose what I eat. I only eat crap I would eat irl too…unless my toon is hard up of course. Auto as an option please. Leave the manual as default =)

[Stone]

Lowering portion sizes and compensating by increasing the nutrition would be okay too, but your idea sounds more preferable to me.

[Trigon]

Being able to leave the eat menu open and just eat tons of stuff is also a pretty good idea. Nice one @nameless_survivor

[nameless_survivor]

Thank you. The question is will someone who codes the game think it is too, and will they notice? Can we summon the devs by saying their name three times or something, like Biggie Smalls?

[Malkeus]

If you want, you can write your suggestion as an issue on github. That’s the very best way to get it to the eyes of the devs. This link will take you right to the correct page, choose Feature Request and start typing.

Build software better, together

[TheZoneWizard]

No idea how I misinterpreted this. But ok. I got it a day later. Yeah having a toggle option to leave open the eating menu and garble whatever until full is a novel idea.

[nameless_survivor]

I don’t have a github account, so that link just brings me to the sign in page. Aren’t the devs migrating to somewhere else anyway because GitHub has been consumed by Microsoft?

[Malkeus]

Well, there’s your first step. Any suggestions made there will no doubt make the migration if they ever do. I’m not holding my breath.

[AcarpousAcumen]

I’d love to be able to automatically eat food I’ve preselected while I’m doing other lengthy tasks like reading and crafting, the same way we designate a firewood source. As soon as you have hunger enough to eat the next item, nom. But it’s only on while you’re doing a prolonged task, just like the firewood source.

[Erk]

Dude, that is a phenomenal idea

[Stone]

Wait, we can designate a firewood source now??? Like it refuels automatically?

[Unawares]

Wait, we can designate a firewood source now??? Like it refuels automatically?

Aha, that’s what that does! Learned something new. Basicly you can designate a floor space as a wood source for a fire, so that if you are reading or crafting you won’t get interrupted by your fire going out. You automatically put more fuel in as needed.

It only works while you are doing something interruptable like that though. If you just wait there it will go out as normal.

[Treah]

@Unawares
You just taught me what this does now too,