Rations

* Pathologic 2
* Pathologic: The Marble Nest
* Pathologic

**Rations** are the most important items in *Pathologic 2* as they are necessities for survival. Most, if not all, food and drink items can be purchased in Groceries and the Broken Heart Pub with money or coupons, and otherwise bartered for via townsfolk.

## Rations

Foods listed below are sorted by their inventory cell sizing, but can be sorted by their status effects for additional comparison. The "Stacks" column refers a food's maximum count before creating a new stack.

## Snacks

Snack foods hold a fractional amount of hunger value relative to their buying price, and should be traded to kids rather than eaten.

## Other

Foods listed below serve purposes beyond mere hunger reduction.

* \*Rotten Food reduces player health by 10% of its *current* value rather than its total.
* † Muddy Water reduces player immunity by 40% of its *current* value rather than its total.

The listed items are food and rations obtainable throughout *Pathologic: The Marble Nest.* that impact hunger and thirst. Food is only purchasable through trade with Shrew, Sticky, or the Shop.

## Rations

Anything that's baked of dough can be called bread. The local variety is greyish in color and crumbly to the touch, making one doubt if it was actually made from grain. Surprisingly delicious though.
 Canned Food | This can is completely airproof, guaranteeing that its contents are uninfected. The food itself is nutritious.
Nutritious, neatly-packed and well-preserved food that somehow doesn't require a can opener. There's no manufacturer brand on the can and it's far from obvious what type of food is inside.
 Cracker | Soldier food. There's no reason to prefer it to freshly baked bread.
Leaving bread to go stale or dry is heavily frowned upon. Crackers arrived to the town with soldiers' rations and remain unpopular despite being decently filling.
 Milk | Oddly warm and creamy, as though milked minutes ago, this common nourishing drink can often be found as an offering at cemeteries.
Often used as an offering to the dead, milk serves as a remind that all that is born must come to an end. It's so popular in the town that cream separators can be found even in the households that seemingly have nothing to do with the local Bull Project.
 Raisins | Formerly juicy berries, currently a luxurious treat that leaves one's mouth sugary when eaten.
A luxurious imported treat. The locals refuse to eat more than a couple at a time; perhaps this has to do with the fact that raisins do not spoil and thus become the only treat available during food shortages.
 Water Bottle | Seemingly sates thirst a bit. Despite the town standing on the river Gorkhon, fresh drinking water is a rare commodity here.
Fresh water is brought to the town daily from a spring in the steppe and distributed among the households by water-bearers. The Gorkhon water was proven to be clean, but the locals refuse to drink it.

## Snacks

Despite the lack of chestnut trees around, chestnuts are omnipresent in the town. Where do they come from?
 Peanuts | While nuts can be munched down, they do little to sate hunger. Why then do the local kids' eyes light up when they see one?
Used in the most popular game among local children, nuts are forbidden in the Polyhedron, where most of the kids fled from the plague. The "voices of nuts" were said to make the facets of the Polyhedron resonate in a bad way.
 Walnuts | While nuts can be munched down, they do little to sate hunger. Why then do the local kids' eyes light up when they see one?
Used in the most popular game among local children, nuts are forbidden in the Polyhedron, where most of the kids fled from the plague. The "voices of nuts" were said to make the facets of the Polyhedron resonate in a bad way.

"**Rations**" is the fourth of five tabs in the player's inventory. Rations can have a variety of effects: increasing or decreasing hunger, increasing or decreasing exhaustion, and/or decreasing health. Rations can be bought at Stores or obtained by trading with Patrolmen. Water can be traded to Carousers for bandages and tourniquets. Nuts are a special type of ration that may be traded to children for items in addition to decreasing hunger if eaten.

## Snacks

 Peanut | An earth-nut. Occupies the lowest tier in the hierarchy of the children's game of nuts. It has little value because of its fragile shell and awkward shape. However, it is often found in food stockpiles and has some nutritional value. Can never be infected.
 Walnut | A rare nut for this area. Knowing the children's love for large nuts, the adults would use it as a reward. Now walnuts have become something akin to a currency among children. Once could exchange a large walnut for something valuable. Can never be infected.