Starving - death

[Majix]

How long time does it take for a starving person to die?

[EchoMan]

A few hours if you are truly starved. 20 days if you are just beginning to get hungry.

[Chris]

With the new stomach mechanism, can you eat food between the food tick and the death tick and avoid a starving death? That is, you have no food for 20 days. You are still alive because the death-by-starvation tick hasn't happened yet. You find food. Can you save yourself?

[Doug R.]

Yes, but that will be changing once the newest changes go into effect.

[SekoETC]

No I don't think it's going to change. It may have been the plan in some point but as far as I can remember, the new system also allows healing from 100% hunger instantly.

[Doug R.]

Thanks for the clarification.

[SumBum]

That's good it won't change! One of the things I really liked about the stomach implementation was being able to heal hunger instantly. Really sucks when a char wakes up right after the eating tick, grabs food, then dies 2 min later.

[Majix]

I should have waited with my question a couple of hours, he died right now. (insert happy and/or sad smiley here)

I have been checking him rather frequently but it was only some days ago I saw he was really hungry. Maybe the "hungry only" isn't visible for me, only at the bar for the person himself.

Now I have some dragging and burying to do. And some exciting locks to open.

[SumBum]

I think the "looks very hungry" message appears 3 days before they starve.