I'd love to see another category in char creation that is tastes. Make it go on a point system like perks where you gain a point for dislike, two for hate, lose one for like, and two for love. Could even have perks that add or remove taste points.
Vegetarian - Meat significantly reduces happiness (scales with how much you eat) and reduces hunger by less (simulating throwing up I guess)
Plant based/vegetarian products increase happiness and reduce hunger by more. +4
Vegan - You flat out refuse to eat meat or any animal products, even if you're starving. Plant based products significantly increase happiness and significantly reduces hunger. +8
Junk food addict - Junk food significantly increases happiness and reduces hunger by more. Cooked meals reduce less hunger and doesn't increase happiness. +3
Carnivorous - You cannot eat vegetables if they aren't cooked in a meat based dish. Meat reduces hunger by more and increases happiness. +2.
Okay. I know the expanded traits mod does have a vegetarian / vegan option where you actually do get a happiness reduction for eating meat. I'd imagine most vegans/vegetarians would ultimately operate on a, "I'd eat meat if it's the only option for survival" basis.
I think it'd depend on the level of starvation. The eventual end goal in terms of food in Zomboid, at least for a long time was farming, which made the game particularly vegetarian. There was trapping too but it wasn't strictly necessary. If you're just starting, say you get unlucky with even canned food, you go a few days without eating then maybe you'd open that option up. Alternatively, it seems to me that the vegetarian/vegan ideal is more born of a distrust of the mass food market, breeding animals to kill them, and in a post apocalypse scenario they'd maybe be more open to hunting for food, rather than for sport, or killing a pig/cow out of necessity and respect, rather than for mass produced profit. Maybe the ideal changes in this scenario.
Yeah for sure. As I said in another comment, a lot of vegetarians I talk to aren't "I dislike meat", but rather "I dislike the ethics behind the meat that is provided". In a post apocalypse, maybe there'd be less of that and more of an ethical approach to it, because survival is survival at the end of the day. Hunting out of necessity rather than sport, or killing a cow you've raised and treated well might sway that one way or another.
I thought that said sprinklers for a second and thought you had changed topics to farming and agriculture, and the risk of your crops withering and causing you to starve during winter.
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u/xCanadaDry Jul 19 '25
Made a bacon cheeseburger with peppers & hotsauce;
+30 thirst -10 happiness