Due to crop failure for several years in a row,
a sack of wheat began to cost more than a sack of gold.
Chronicles of Tangaria
Press E to eat food from your inventory. You must eat regularly to survive. You can find a variety of food in the dungeon, although eating strange food can be fraught at times.
Starving and overeating is quite dangerous. If you don’t eat for a longer while – hunger can kill you. At the same time – if you overeat, you will become slow and easy prey in the battle.
You will see satiation indicator below the status bar on the left side in the main window. When you just start your character it will show Fed 70%f which means that you are well. If your satiation drops below ~10% – a yellow Hungry appear, then it will change gradually to orange Weak and red Starve and you will start getting paralysed by the lack of food! Finally you will start losing hit points and eventually die from starvation.
If you overeat and your satiation will become more than 90% – you will become slow; use the Rest command to remove excessive satiation faster.
Satiation continues to decrease much more slowly when the player is WEAK, FAINTING, or STARVING from hunger.
Drinking
Drinking restores some satiation if you are WEAK, FAINTING, or STARVING from hunger. The hungrier you are, the more nourishment you gain. You can drink:
- Water from fountains or other sources (even puddles) restores a certain amount of satiation. Fountains provide more satiation, but may have magical side effects (not always beneficial).
- Potions (any type) — restores a small amount of satiation (again: only when you are WEAK, FAINTING, or STARVING!) – except Vampires, Undeads, Golems, Wraiths and Djinn.
Healing potions might sometimes reduce a bit of satiation, but not if you are WEAK or FAINTING; in that case, they even provide some.
💡 Water in potion gives a better result than drinking from open source of water.
Questions & Answers
Where to get food? It’s very rare in the dungeon!
Bosses that dwell at certain depths will always drop food when defeated. So try to take them down — you’ll have plenty of food that way. How do you know there’s a boss on the level? When entering such a level, you’ll see the message: This place belongs to someone…
In Deeptown mode, I consume more satiation. Why?
Because in this mode, there are no Dungeon Brackets, and it’s much easier to clear out all bosses with food. In no-mode, you often skip bosses and end up with much less food.
My character can’t hit anything, he always misses! Also his parameters (to-hit) went down.
Maybe you are hungry? You will fight better on full stomach 😉
Is it very bad to be Hungry or Weak?
Being Hungry doesn’t affect anything. Being Weak slightly reduces some of your stats, but not by much. It’s totally fine to play while Weak.
🍒I’m dying from hunger, food is too rare, what to do?
1) you won’t lose satiation in town – there you can calm down and think what to do next;
2) don’t forget that mushrooms, booze, and some potions gives nourishment;
3) there are some monsters/traps and objects which could steal your food or make you hungry. Some of them could be invisible. Take care of that, there are specific sounds for such attacks:
…If you hear these sounds – run or kill it ‘blindly’. Also you could detect invisibility with a scroll or potion (later on you will find equipment with this property).
4) if you didn’t manage to find food for a while – it could be just bad luck. Don’t hesitate to buy food from other players, it’s often situation when someone got too much and someone got none. Ask about food for sale in-game chat and Discord. Also, buying food from players could be 3-4 times cheaper than from the Black Market;
5) Take note that you spend a lot of satiation when Resting after fights;
6) Some races could need more/less food than others;
7) some actions and spells can reduce satiation, for example, mining stone outside the dungeons or if you breathe fire as a dragon or identification spell by Sorcerer class;
8) do not carry all the food with you, so that all of it is not eaten/stolen/burned/dissolved by monsters; store surplus in your home or warehouse.
🐢I’m gorged (90+% Fed) and my speed is low. What to do?
Don’t over-eat 🙂 You could Rest till satiation will normalize (happens quite fast).
🤔Why am I finding crops in the dungeon? this makes no sense
They are stolen from people.. If you will read NPC dialogs you will know… they appear only at shallow depths
Notes
- Your satiation reduces faster if the character has high speed; eg character with 30 speed bonus will have to eat much more often.
- Some races got different hunger mechanics – eg Vampires get nourishment by killing humanoids, Ents got it from drinking from fountains, Lizardmen got additional nourishment by eating insects. Vampires and Ents don’t get nourishment from common ‘human’ food, while Lizardmen can eat it too.
- Golems gain satiation by drinking oil (from flasks or lamps), Djinn by breaking magic wands or staves, Undeads by consuming corpses (in all cases using the
_key). - Keep in mind that Nazgûl Rings of Power initially require extra nourishment, but the longer you wear them, the less additional food they need.