What? That's almost not different than what it already is. Food decides your focus. You wanna be a dodgy character that can run, jump and dodge constantly? Focus stamina food. Want to tank everything? Health food.

The concept is that food has tiers similar to gear progression. As you progress the game and get better gear, you can make better foods.

Dunno what you're on about with making potions a thing. They are. They're called mead for flavor, but they're literally potions.

Like, I don't want to get nasty or anything but I really don't think you thought this through before posting. It very much sounds like you're venting frustration more than anything. Might want to focus on that first.

Originally posted by Raven:

Eat more food you get more health.
Hey why cant i eat till i get so full no one can beat me?

Make the health skill based, getting hit often, u get more health to a certain max.
Food make u regain health faster, outside combat.
Make potions a thing, you already touching the alchemy, might as well add it.
if potions regen health or give insta, well i dont care

If you're asking it to be like other games, then just play other games. I've been playing for years and I like their take on it. It's a fresh "viking" take on it. Food makes you more "powerful", eat a hearty meal, be stronger. Eat a sustaining meal, run for longer.

Sounds like you're new. Wait till you get to mead brewing, then you really experience the power.

the only issue i see with the current system is how your health and stamina will decay over time and the fact that different foods can have different durations. these things add an annoying level of micromanaging that doesn't reward the player, but rather punishes players who choose to ignore that frustration entirely.

Originally posted by Sturmgewehrz:

the only issue i see with the current system is how your health and stamina will decay over time and the fact that different foods can have different durations. these things add an annoying level of micromanaging that doesn't reward the player, but rather punishes players who choose to ignore that frustration entirely.

Yeah, I'd much rather see food not decay at all for the first 50%, then have the system they have now take place. So you'd have full effect for the first 50%, at 60% duration the boosts would decay to 90% effectiveness. At 70% of the duration the effectiveness would drop more substantially to like 60% and so on.

Having a full delay to the decay would be nice. The time it takes to let your health bar fill up after you pop your best stuff can be awhile and you're already looking at decay before you've even healed up. It wouldn't be so bad if there was a Tasty Mead but for health instead so it isn't as useful in combat for replacing the healing mead, but can be used for rapid healing after a meal, kinda like something to wash it down.

"Hey why cant i eat till i get so full no one can beat me?"

this makes me laugh for sooo many reasons :-) one of the more polite... "Sumo Vikings!!" good luck with the corpse run.

But humour aside.. you eat two types of food to balance your abilities. and wear armour to reflect damage. eating while "in combat" has its risks.. i think Valheim does this quite well "challenging indeed"
Potions are alchemy, not sure OP's boss level .. But to quote
“Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.”

― Sun Tzu

agree