Food and drink

Intro

Everyone is aware one has to eat and drink to stay in good shape. This little guide will explain how food and drink works in P99. Please note that most of the time I will speak about food. The same applies to drinks. Just copy/paste the following text in your favorite editor, search/replace "food" with "drink" and "eat" with "drink".

Basics

Your stomach

Everyone has a stomach, not only trolls and ogres. It can be empty (when you got messages saying you are hungry / thirsty) or full (saying you would explode if you eat any more), or even in between. When your stomach is empty, the game automatically checks whether there is a piece of food in your inventory, takes it out of your bag/box/whatever and put it in your stomach. When you right-click a piece of food it also goes in your stomach. If it's full, you cannot eat anymore. You can also eat successive pieces of food, going right-click frenzy on a stack of food, until it's full. That way, you can have several pieces of food in your stomach, and they will be consumed one after the other till it's empty.

Food and drink categories

There are seven categories describing how long a piece of food/drink will last in your stomach before it is consumed:

• snack/whistle wetter: lasts for 1-5 minutes;
• meal/drink: lasts for 6-20 minutes;
• hearty meal/refreshing drink: lasts for 21-30 minutes;
• banquet size meal/lasting drink: lasts for 31-40;
• feast/flowing drink: lasts for 41-50 minutes;
• enduring meal/enduring drink: lasts for 51-60 minutes;
• miraculous meal/miraculous drink: lasts for 61-240 minutes.

Why intervals and not precise amount of minutes? Because every piece of food has it's own digestive timer. A Bear Sandwich is 20 minutes. A Beer Braised Mammoth is 35 minutes. Starting from an empty stomach, you can force-eat (right-click) more snacks than hearty meals, for example.

Out of food

Once you are out of food/drink, you will get annoying messages in your chat. Also, as a side-effect, you will stop regenerating life, mana and/or stamina (need more investigation here).

Next piece of food

As said before, the game will locate the next piece of food as soon as your stomach is empty. If you only have one stack of food in your whole inventory, say a full stack (20) of bear sandwiches, it's easy to understand that the game will automatically take one and put it in your stomach, and that your stack will only have 19 pieces left. Something very important is how the game determines what will go in your stomach next time it's empty, aka "the next food slot". It's easy: he will scan your inventory, starting from the top left slot and going to the bottom right slot. If a slot is filled with a container (box, bag, ...) the game will look into it and scan it left right and top-down. Following is a more precise and visual description of the slot scan order. In the personnal inventory (main level where you can put bags):

1 5
2 6
3 7
4 8

In the bags (not the same order!):

1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 10

Crafted food

Food and drink can be created via tradeskills. The advantages of player-made food are mainly:

• Usually weighs only 0.1WT and can have long duration. If you go raiding for hours, just a stack of Misty Thicket Picnic, weighing 0.1, will last for 40 hours;
• May grant stat bonuses to you. Blackened Teir'Dal gives you DEX+1, INT+2, AGI+1, for example.

The benefits of crafted food are obvious: it's like having an extra equipment slot where you can put stat enhancing food. If we take the example of a single piece of Bear Steaks (STR+1), the game will add 1 to your strength if you put it in "the next food slot" (as described before). And it will only eat it if your stomach is empty. So, if you are careful enough and right-click some food now and then to keep your stomach busy, that single piece of Bear Sandwich will last forever.

--Epicentre 12:53, 28 January 2011 (UTC)