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Nutrition Extension

This mod makes a number of changes to Kenshi's nutrition system:

- Starvation time variable is doubled, it now takes five days for nutrition to decrease by 100 at baseline encumbrance, or 15 days without food to go from fully fed to death by starvation.

- Fed recovery rate is doubled, as it is directly linked to the starvation rate. Eating will replenish nutrition at the same rate as before.

- Food quality is reduced by half, along with price. Individual food items only provide half the usual amount of nutrition but only cost half the usual amount.

- Food items are made stackable, the extent of this varies. Thinfish are stackable up to eight, some can stack to four, and others (like bowls of rice and other "bulky" items) are only stackable up to their vanilla nutrition limit.

Net effects summary:

- Players must eat at the same rate to maintain their nutrition levels, but it takes twice as long to completely starve.

- Food is more scarce, since shops offer half the usual amount of nutrition per day. It's still possible to feed large squads with only bar food, but it isn't as easy.

- Stackable food items slightly reduce micromanagement involved in butchering / transferring food.

- Efficiency of food production is reduced, since the same amount of work is required to produce half the usual amount of value/nutrition.

- It is more difficult to enter a malnourished state, but also more difficult to get out of it.

The goal is for hunger management to be a bit less urgent and micro-intensive while still keeping it a relevant mechanic (I've found that just increasing the hunger time slider renders the food clock trivial).