Recovering from emaciation / starvation

[Claytonaj 12]

I mentioned this in another thread ( http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=27048&pid=240205#pid240205 ) which was about bodyweight rather than starvation per se. I thought it deserved its own thread, since I can't find any further reference to it in the forums and it seems pretty fundamental in a survival situation.

When you're starving, and you've lost a huge amount of body weight you can't simply eat a can of pasta and miraculously feel better. You need to gradually reintroduce food into your system to avoid regurgitation. I suggest two things:

1. That food be much more scarce, and generally found in household waste, partially eaten and often rotting. So if you find a tin of beans it's likely only to contain something like an eighth of its original contents. This will already be going bad, so you have to eat it soon after finding it, or risk poisoning. You might, on rare occasion, find a whole, sealed can of something; this should be a very valuable item.

2. Now that food is scarce, starvation becomes far more likely. Referring back to the above thread about bodyweight, you will gradually become gaunt and obviously malnourished. In order to recover you must only eat a little at a time. If you eat too quickly you vomit (no HUD icons needed) and feel no benefit. This obviously requires that the game allows you to eat less than the whole of an item of food, something like: "eat 1/4 tin of beans", "eat 1/2 tin of beans".