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Getting Started & Survival

Hunger & Eating

Hunger falls over time. Eating food that restores hunger fills the meter again, up to your current maximum. Keep food ready before a long trip or a difficult fight.

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Recognise your hunger meter

The hunger meter shows full and half food symbols. These are separate from your health hearts: a food can restore hunger, health or both.

A row of drumstick-shaped hunger symbols above the numbered inventory slots, with filled, partly filled and empty symbols.Hunger meterView full size
Look above your quick-access inventory slots. The coloured drumsticks show your remaining hunger; the dark silhouettes show the empty part of the meter.

The status text shows “Hunger” when your hunger is low. At an empty meter, it changes to “Starving”. Starvation damages your health and slows your movement.

What to do

Eat before the meter runs out. Check a food’s description for what it restores and any status effects it causes. A status effect is a temporary change to your character, such as Strength or Poison.

Raw Pork Chop selected in the inventory. Its description says cooking doubles its restorative effects, restores 4.5 hunger and 3 hearts, and has a 100% chance to cause Poison.Food item descriptionView full size
Read the whole description before eating. This Raw Pork Chop example lists 4.5 hunger and 3 hearts of restoration, but also a 100% chance to cause Poison. The cooking note says its restorative effects will double.

Hunger and healing are capped at your current maximums, so any restoration above a full meter is lost. If an item has nothing it can currently restore or apply, the game can show “Full”.

Choose food to suit the situation. Wheat restores hunger without granting Strength, so it can cover everyday eating when you are safe. Keep Green Hearts, or cooked meat such as Cooked Chicken Drumstick and Grilled Steak, ready for danger: they restore health and hunger and grant a short Strength boost. Check each food’s description, because not every food gives Strength.

Keep food and potions ready

Before heading out, arrange food and any potions you plan to use in your quick-access bar. Keep everyday hunger restoration and your Strength-granting supplies in familiar slots so you can find the right item when danger appears.

Numbered quick-access slots containing food, several coloured potion bottles and other items, with stack counts shown on the icons.Quick-access barView full size
Keep your everyday food and emergency supplies in easy-to-find slots. This example shows food and potions together in the quick-access bar; check each item’s description to learn what it does.

Check your supplies before a fight and replace what you have used when you are safe. Choose items for their effects rather than relying on a bottle’s colour.

Try this

If you are missing two hunger symbols and one health heart, eat an Apple. It restores two hunger symbols and one heart. If either meter has less room, only the missing amount is restored.

Items in this guide

Open an item for its description and available recipes. These images show inventory items.

AppleWheatGreen HeartCooked Chicken Drumstick