I love the fan boys just going on the attack. It's like looking at the comment section of a news site.

The Regen is very slow. Particularly in the early game. You can eat all the food you like but when you are cutting wood and you chop down 3 or 4 trees get a nice chain reaction and have about 600 wood to chop in the early game with a flint axe having 120+ stamina is the following.

Chop Chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop wait regen starts wait wait wait wait Chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop....

it is a significantly long pause to let your regen fully refill. It is almost better to have lower stamina about 80-100. You will have to stop more often but you still have enough to fight and the waits are shorter so you don't feel as though you are wasting so much time.

That is when I notice it the most. Fights in the early game are always going to be a lot of kiting because if you have 10 greydwarfs, a Shaman and a Brute chasing you stopping and using all your stamina is not a good idea. You stop, knock one or two down and start moving again. So it is just the running... and by the time that starts you will have your buff to help with that.

(Also I haven't died... no trees, no large groups, no accidental falls, no drowning... so I'm not complaining that it gets me killed... the regen slows the play down to a point that there is a noticeable down time often enough to be frustrating.

Not everyone speed runs. My first base I build before doing a boss usually takes 600 wood for the walls alone not including the long house and the workshop or the 300 -400 stone for the reinforcing. The boar pen is needless they respawn really very fast in the wild. I generally play slow... and when you are building like that early the poor stamina regen is really noticeable.

and cue people dismissing this as playing wrong...