Hunger

*Hunger* is a player-specific feature of *Ylands*.

## Description

Food allows the player to avoid dying of starvation. There is no hunger bar and the exact percent of hunger is hidden in the base game. Features involving hunger can be added to the game using Editor. Each food item decreases a varying amount of hunger depending on how hungry the player is at the time the food is eaten (more information below). Master cooked seafood meals, such as Baked Catfish and Electric Nuggets, provide the most amount of satiation, allowing the player to go longer between each time they eat. Some foods also provide a certain buff such as a Strength Boost, which allows the player to do more damage to monsters or break blocks faster, or a resistance to either heat or cold, and some provide instant healing. For more information on these buffs, visit the Food page.

## Mechanics

The player has 100 hunger points starting from 0 (not hungry) up to 100 (dying from starvation). Every 86 seconds (1.44 minutes) the hunger level increases by 1 point. Assuming full health and starting at 0 hunger and no damage is taken from other external sources, the player can survive without eating for 2 hours and 24 minutes (3 whole in-game days) before they start to take any damage.

For the base game there are three visible states relating to hunger.

* **Hungry** - At 30% Hunger, the hunger icon and a warning "I am hungry" appears, it takes 43 minutes from 0 hunger to reach this stage which is almost a whole game day (48 minutes for day + night),

* **Starving** - The player then has roughly another 43 minutes before they start starving (60% Hunger), the warning "I am starving" appears,

* **Dying** - It takes another 57 minutes to reach 100% Hunger and at this point the screen will flash red and the player will slowly lose health at a rate of 1HP per 12 seconds (1 heart every 4 minutes). It then takes approximately 20 minutes to die of starvation.

The player cannot normally eat food unless they have more than 10 hunger points ie. 10% hungry, except for if the food provides HP, an injured player can eat food that can heal, such as Cup of Tea even if they are not hungry. Hunger is only determined by real time and it is not affected by in-game time unless the player uses a bed or sleeping pad to sleep and skip time ahead in which case the hunger rate will increase to match the amount of time slept. Unless it is changed in the Editor, the player starts a new game at 0% Hungry and becomes approximately 1.44% more hungry per real-life minute.

## Hunger Satiation of Foods

The many Food items in Ylands all provide varying amounts of satiation to the player. Raw foods and basic foods cooked at the Campfire will give very little hunger points, more advanced foods cooked at a Stove or Kitchen Stove will provide a greater amount, and advanced meals cooked at the Energy Stove will provide the most satiation as well as different buffs such as heat and cold resistance, instant health and strength bonuses.

The amount of hunger points received when eating a food can also depend on how hungry the player is when eating the food. Many foods are more effective when eaten at the first hungry notification. As the hunger meter does not go into the negative, it is possible to waste food by eating advanced meals when only just starting to get hungry.

The following table shows how many hunger points each food item provides when eaten at the three main hunger levels: **Hungry**, **Starving**, & **Dying**. This table is sortable, click on each header to sort it from ascending to descending. Higher values mean the food is more effective at reducing hunger. For example: Baked Catfish provides the maximum 30 points at Hungry, 60 points at Starving, and 100 points at Dying. This means that it is 100% effective and reduces hunger back to 0 no matter when it is eaten.

### Removed Foods

This is a table of food items that can not normally be obtained any more as updates have stopped them being craftable, harvestable, cookable or they have been replaced by other items. Players who still have any of these items or finds them at random encounters or on older maps can still eat them. Some of these foods can also currently still be purchased at Traders, for example Fish.