Dst hunger quirks (POLL)

[marshyds]

Dst makes use of various hunger quirks, I'd like the community opinion on who's downside/upside is the best.

Personally, my pick would be Winona, as her hunger downside is the most intuitive and doesnt ruin any crockpot foods selections.

Plus if you have hunger to spare it can speed up tedious crafting.

If i forgot someone then that goes to show how irrelevant their downside is to me.

[Gashzer]

Wurt is the perfect blend of a noticeable downside of being able to not eat meat but also a reward for embracing certain playstyles like farming with the 33% boost.

Warly is the worst, 20% extra hunger drain without the single player 33% bonus means even if you are making different crockpots meals you still have a net downside.

[arubaro]

Wormwood and warly.

Wormwood because cant heal from food but doesnt affect the sanity restoration.

Warly because while can heal from food, you cant use rely on the same dish for long and works the same for sanity making you look after cooking different and with the higher stats healing and sanity dishes. Also the restriction of not being able to eat ingredients makes his early game way more interesting than most characters, including wurt which can eat mushrooms

[Edible Coal]

is really hard to even define what you mean by Best Hunger perk , like what is best ?

Wormwood force player to use less unconventional ways to heal like bat bat or salve

warly force you to learn more recipes and cook more food that force you learn more diet

 

i think wigfrid has probably the most boring hunger perk ? like she lose nothing from only eating meat and she can just fight stuff to get sanity back, plus most healing food are meat based...

[Echsrick]

you forgot something, webber not only is able to eat monster meat, but he dont care about any raw meat, and if i remember he dont care if raw meat is spoiled red

[NoodlemanNed]

pre rework wolfgang had the best hunger quirk. Tripled hunger drain was far most significant than people gave it credit for, and it gave worthwhile stats in exchange. Current state wolfgang has so much less depth since you get his buffs for free pretty much.

[aidankocherhans]

2 hours ago, Gashzer said:

Warly is the worst, 20% extra hunger drain without the single player 33% bonus means even if you are making different crockpots meals you still have a net downside.

I really like Warly's mechanics, but it really is a whole lot of work for not much reward.

[Wormboi]

2 minutes ago, aidankocherhans said:

I really like Warly's mechanics, but it really is a whole lot of work for not much reward.

In SW he used to gain double the stats from food but they remove it in DST for some reason

[aidankocherhans]

2 hours ago, arubaro said:

Wormwood and warly.

Wormwood because cant heal from food but doesnt affect the sanity restoration.

Personally I dislike wormwood (and Wanda's) food mechanics. It reduces the depth of food, and it's especially a shame that wormwood can't use all the healing options his crops give.

[Radicaljoe]

I see the vision of Warly's intended way of dealing with his no repeat downside, but in practice it doesn't work as well. So many crockpot foods are not enough for their effort it's easier to just starve for 3 days then eat like 2 meaty stews. I really wish they would add a whole second roster of food to his crockpot, 11 dishes is not a suitable amount of recipes for a so called "wandering chef." You're telling me this man has his own line of crockpot and cookware? BUT only knows 11 more dishes than the fish child or the sentient root from the moon?

[arubaro]

34 minutes ago, Radicaljoe said:

I see the vision of Warly's intended way of dealing with his no repeat downside, but in practice it doesn't work as well. So many crockpot foods are not enough for their effort it's easier to just starve for 3 days then eat like 2 meaty stews. I really wish they would add a whole second roster of food to his crockpot, 11 dishes is not a suitable amount of recipes for a so called "wandering chef." You're telling me this man has his own line of crockpot and cookware? BUT only knows 11 more dishes than the fish child or the sentient root from the moon?

Why people focus that much on the hunger aspect of his downside??? The interesting part is restoring health and sanity

Is hard to make anything interesting about hunger without nerfing dumb dishes like meat stews

[GetNerfedOn]

i like warly because my inventory looks more or les like this for bosses

and i find it really fun and silly to play like this and subject myself to the torture of being unable to eat jerky or dried kelp or shrooms

[Evelo]

If Moqueca and Meaty stew didn't exist Warly would be the standout by far. Super unique and really focuses on food. Though Wormwood not healing from food is why I love him so much.

[Radicaljoe]

On 10/8/2024 at 6:05 PM, arubaro said:

Why people focus that much on the hunger aspect of his downside??? The interesting part is restoring health and sanity

Is hard to make anything interesting about hunger without nerfing dumb dishes like meat stews

As Warly I just use Tams and Honey bandaids, not really too different from how I play Wormwood. For something like fuel weaver I can see the downside being a big issue, but that's about it.

I assume people focus on the hunger aspect because that is the main thing you think of when you're a chef character, making food and filling people's hunger.

[Mojmaowo]

It is funny how a fish that never tasted meat makes as good of a meaty stew as the best chef of the constant

[grm9]

22 minutes ago, Mojmaowo said:

It is funny how a fish that never tasted meat makes as good of a meaty stew as the best chef of the constant

possibly because you just put stuff into a pot for it to get cooked with out interacting with it while it's getting cooked

[Kevinnator]

Warly is the most interesting one. To some his downside can be pretty annoying and that's understandable, but to me it heavily encourages you to learn to cook more than just meatballs. Having a variety of ingredients growing at base can give you plenty of options for cooking. Even if the food is technically a net loss in terms of hunger with the ingredients used, that doesn't matter much for Warly as he can't eat ingredients anyway so any dish is good for him. And if you're growing a ton of food, "wasting" ingredients on dishes really doesn't matter. It's that or several stacks of rot that you probably already have too much of anyway.