Diet

In Prehistoria, as in real life, different animals eat different things. Herbivores always have multiple food items, Berries always being one of them. Carnivores currently only have carcasses and meat piles to eat.

Meat, and mayhaps eventually plants, can be grabbed with the T key (PC) or the Take button (Mobile).

## Meat

Food that carnivores eat, meat is obtained through the killing of players (and eventually AI and some sessile foods). Illuminated by a surrounding red bubble with scent.

Meat scent bubble
### Meat

Meat drops from players upon death as a carcass. Upon eating it, the flesh will decrease in size. The bigger the creature, the more can be eaten from its carcass. Meat can also naturally spawn across the map. Carcasses and meat chunks despawn after 5 minutes without interaction.

* All Carnivores

CarcassPartially eaten carcassMeat chunk
## Plants

Plants, unlike most meats, are completely sessile and always regenerate at the same specific locations. They tend to leave a notable sign of their existence after being eaten such as the stem and twigs of a sapling or the remaining bush of a berry bush.

### Berries

Berry bushes can be found all across the map of Prehistoria and are very abundant, though Berries have the lowest food value of any plant. Their scent has much more duller color than other plants. The berry bushes are the only plants that every single herbivore in Prehistoria can eat. They are not meant to represent any particular species of berry.

* All Herbivores

Full and depleted bushes
### Acacia Saplings

Can be found in Grassland.

* Tenontosaurus

### Araucaria Fruit

Monkey Puzzle Trees, Araucaria araucana, are found throughout and around the grassland biome, like Acacias. Their green fruits surround their parent's trunks.

* Camptosaurus
* Styracosaurus

Araucaria fruit around the trunk of an Araucaria treeReal Monkey Puzzle cone
### Birch Saplings

Birch Saplings are found amongst their parents in the multiple Birch tree groves across the map.

* Parasaurolophus

Birch sapling among adult BirchesDepleted Birch Sapling
### Cycads

Cycads can be found in Forests. They are included in the diets of all ceratopsids.

* Ceratopsids

Orange and Red CycadsRarer green variety
### Guarana

Can be found in Tropical.

* Iguanodon

### Mahua Saplings

Mahua saplings are tall saplings of the taller yet Mahua trees at the coast. They notably have a peculiar, cuboidal scent bubble.

* Kentrosaurus

### Mangos

Mangos can be found in Coastal.

* Machairoceratops

### Oak Saplings

Oak Saplings are found all across the vast Oak Forest.

* Kentrosaurus
* Parasaurolophus

Oak Saplings
### Redwood Seeds

Redwood Seeds can be found in Redwoods.

* Camptosaurus

### Redwood Saplings

Can be found in Redwoods.

* Tenontosaurus

## Food Piles

Food, though currently only meat, can be grabbed and placed on top of another of the same food type to create a pile. Food piles can be used to store food, as they can be stacked up to a decent size, and take 10 minutes to despawn rather than the 5 minutes of food chunks and carcasses. The more it's filled, the wider the radius of its scent bubble is, and as this is actually its range of interaction, food can be grabbed, eaten, and stolen from farther away. Both plant food piles and fish piles are planned, though plant food piles are possible to not come to the game.

### Meat Piles

Meat piles are created upon placing multiple meat chunks on top of each other.

* All Carnivores

## Future Foods

### Fish

Fish will be AI that spawn in bodies of water. They will flee the player who can grab them by biting and subsequently killing them, and also place them in a unique food pile type. This may introduce a new Piscivore diet type to the creature select menu.

### Washed-Up Carcasses

Beached carcasses of ancient sea life will spawn along Prehistoria's shorelines. They are a planned food source for Bary.

## Removed foods

### Reeds

Reeds, based on Cattails, existed in Pre-Alpha. They were a food source of Para's, and appear to have been removed with the addition of Oak Saplings.