Food

[The Holy Goat]

Mechanically speaking there is no difference between using a 20gp fine meal or a 2gp terrible soup for resting purposes, if I am correct. I honestly haven't explored cooking much so bear that in mind.

What I thought about is if there were a way to have various dishes you auto consume at rest affect you in a minor way. Something along the lines of a couple temporary hp, a point of discipline/concentration/etc., and the hardly edible penalizing, a light disease/poison, a point of dmg, etc.

I don't know if this exists already with better cooking, but it would maybe encourage people to buy foods other than sporebread for anything other than rp reasons.

[VanillaPudding]

The problem is that it seems to select food at random, even some food items you might not want to eat are devoured by whatever algorithm it uses. It may be based upon where it is in your bags, alphabetical, or something far more random. I can't be sure if they can fix this beyond creating a conversation for resting (and hopefully leave it optional, so one might select food if they wish, or just eat whatever they have at hand without a care if they choose not to use it)

[Adhesive]

Regarding the above, giving ALL food items the Unique/Special Power feature on them and having to use said option before resting would fix such a problem. There are some items, such as Sporebread, that do not have this feature.

[CondorHero]

I've seen some pretty nifty consumables made from cooking. And as far as I know it seems to select the food items from your top inventory page down to the bottom, most of the time.

[Blue41]

I'm fairly sure that the food consumed by resting is the most recent consumable item acquired. Easy enough to test- drop what you want to eat, pick it back up, then rest.

Or, simply use the item you want to eat and then rest. No other consumable will be used up.

[Knight Of Pentacles]

I think it's eaten from left to right, top to bottom in the inventory.  Don't quote me on that but that's usually how most things work.

[VanillaPudding]

Actually, I'd wager to say that most foods DO NOT have that ability. Nonetheless that isn't an issue unless the system is changed to force that prior to resting.