why does my character eat so much?

[Spartan5364 1]

Seriously... it's the apocalypse and all I ever hear is "I'm hungry" "i'm thirsty".

I'll take a few sips of water, eat a can of sardines... 5 minutes later it's the same deal.

Does my guy have a tapeworm?

[dayzintel 39]

haha, here's a tip - eat and drink absolutely everything you come across until you have both 'energized' and 'hydrated' status. This normally consists of a full water bottle and/or a couple of tins of food. Make it your objective to keep these statuses instead of keeping the negative statuses away.

[Martmital 436]

Comfort eating bro...

[Kushko 36]

Some people stress eat...you should try to calm your character down. Sit on the beach and watch a sunset or something. ;)

[byrgesen 1341]

Also, when you spawn you are borderline starvin/dehydrated and thats why its important to eat and drink as much as possible, the first 30 mins :)
After this, you can go for a very long time, as long as you have the green "Energized" and "Hydrated" flags.

Edited February 13, 2014 by Byrgesen

[Disgraced 1123]

Because you are infected and cannot slake your thirst nor assuage your hunger until they code EATING BRAINS into the game.

 

I'm sure they will adjust this stuff as time goes by, but there has to be some kind of mechanic for it...

[enforcer1975 1111]

Seriously... it's the apocalypse and all I ever hear is "I'm hungry" "i'm thirsty".

 

Yeah exactly what you would feel like in an apocalype when you can't just go into the next supermarket and fill your cart with chips and beer/coke. Look at how the refugees look like in africa, they have the same problem: No supermarket, minimal supplies and KoS.

[Khalek 0]

 tip- until you have both 'energized' and 'hydrated' status

I didn't even know there was an "energized" status, thanks!.

[GpB311 236]

Your character is fat and you should feel bad.

[Hama 60]

Eat and drink everything you find, when you find it. Dont carry food in your inventory(exept when you get the "my stomage fills full" message). Check out Merino's videos, they are pinned in the New player-section.

[Element47 2481]

its not lupus...

 

 

Eat and drink everything you find, when you find it. Dont carry food in your inventory(exept when you get the "my stomage fills full" message). Check out Merino's videos, they are pinned in the New player-section.

seriously though, check Merinos video guide thread that is stickied in the new player subforum it will explain the food system.. some values have been tweaked in a recent patch but it still applies..

Edited February 13, 2014 by e47

[deepfried 95]

Seriously... it's the apocalypse and all I ever hear is "I'm hungry" "i'm thirsty".

I'll take a few sips of water, eat a can of sardines... 5 minutes later it's the same deal.

Does my guy have a tapeworm?

 

When you spawn you're basically dehydrated and malnourished, you need to over feed to get to a normal state. 

 

On top of that you're doing a lot of physical activity carrying a heavy pack, just some simple math will show you that a 300 calorie can of beans isn't going to go far.  Irl eve if you just sit on your arse all day and do nothing you still need about 2000 calories; cross country jogging with a pack is probably going to set you back 6000+ calories a day.  Thats a lot of damn cans of beans :)

[djporternz 644]

Drink til you're 'hydrated'. Eat til you're 'energised'. Eat and drink until these indicators are bright green. Run around for hours with a nice full belly.

[Judopunch 523]

There is a sticky about this at the top of this section.

[Window Licker 504]

On current experimental I've noticed that the food/water ratios seem fairly balanced, once I've done the whole eat everything in sight routine and drink till I'm stuffed, I'm energized, hydrated and healthy after that point carrying a bag of rice or powdered milk will usually suffice for a good period of time, the water runs down a bit quicker but right now that's not too much of an issue.  That might change when you can actually get sick from contaminated water.