Fullness is how much the Wanderer has eaten lately. It shows as three small bars under the stamina ribbon, one for each meal. Three meals and you're full: you can't eat again until you've spent some stamina. Hunger itself is your stamina: it runs down as you act and only food fills it.
How it works
- Each thing you eat, a cooked dish or a raw food, fills one bar.
- With all three bars full you can't eat. Try, and you see "too full", with how much more stamina you need to spend.
- Every 50 stamina you spend empties one bar. The last full bar drains as you spend.
- Only spending counts. Stamina lost to blows doesn't empty a bar.
- While you're starving, the health your moves cost still counts toward emptying a bar.
- You can't overeat: there is no penalty for eating a lot, because the game simply stops you at three meals.
Eat your best food when you need it most. A small raw snack fills a bar just like a big cooked dish.
Hunger
There is no separate hunger meter. Your stamina is your hunger:
- Above 70% of your stamina cap (the hunger line) you are well fed: every 25 stamina you spend heals 5% of your max health.
- At 0 stamina you are starving: you can only walk, swings are slow, and moves cost health (see Stamina).
- Being sleepy lowers how high food can fill your stamina, and cuts what food gives you (see Sleep).
Badges
| Badge | Means |
|---|---|
| FULL | You've eaten three meals. It says how much stamina to spend before there's room for one more. |
| WELL FED | Your stamina is over the hunger line, and you heal as you spend it. |
| STARVING | No stamina left. Eat something. |
Changing it
- Some charms help: Hearty makes fullness empty more slowly, and Full Belly keeps your stamina full for a while after you eat (see Charms).
- When you make a new world you can turn Hunger off. Your stamina then never runs down, but food still heals you and teaches XP. Fullness still limits you to three meals at a time.
Tips
- Eat when you are low, not when you are nearly full of stamina: a dish's stamina can't fill you past your cap.
- To level stats quickly, eat cooked dishes, then work or travel to make room for the next one.
- You can eat several of the same food at once from your pack (EAT with a number). It stops when you're full.
In online play each player has their own fullness.
