i thought of this while prepping for a purge but basically what if we had like a station or even an option in the thrall pot and feed box to assign different food items to specific followers. it’d be a gui that lets you go down a list of followers and be able to move food items into their inventories and have them use potions and food buffs with one click from a single place, without having to run laps around your base
i feel like it’d be way more convenient and hassle free than having to frantically run around your base before a purge manually handing out food and buffs to your followers, especially considering almost every animal uses a completely different food item, and they dont filter out food they cant eat so youll find plant fiber on a bear and meat on a shaleback. i think this would fit nicely with the upcoming living settlements update
p.s: if i posted this in the wrong place, mods feel free to move this
I guess my ultimate question in this is why? These are just guards and not followers so its not like you will get any bonus from the food attribute advancement bumps so why not just thrall pot a good HP/sec food source and it works for everyone.
However I can see it being more difficult with pets since each type of pet has different food options. I think it would be a bit difficult to manually select the food for each animal vs set a feedbox to a certain type of animal and it only feeds that type and so if you have multiple types you will need to put out multiple feed boxes. Which actually makes more sense in the reality of the situation vs cross contamination evens of mixing plant fiber with trippy lotus flowers with rotten meat with fresh meats.
i guess it couldve been better explained in the post but no worries, ill reiterate
the problem im facing is, well inconvenience really, is that before i do a purge i have to give gruel and potion and food buffs to my thralls guarding the base
which sees me run around my base up and down stairs giving gruel and buffs to each guard and archer
now, issue with using the thrall pot is if i put enough gruel for say, 10 guards and 5 archers, ill see some of them take more than they should which results in a few followers not having any gruel and i’d have to run around and individually check each thrall’s inventory which is just a big wild goose chase. its a pointless hassle
and now for the much bigger annoyance, giving them buffs. what im suggesting is a station that lets you select individual followers and remotely have them consume food and potions instead of having to run laps around your base every time you set up for a purge
and like u said yourself, nearly every pet uses a different food table so that just piles up even more, and i get what you said about the realism aspect but this is a game and it wont break your immersion because odds are you wont really actively think about it
It’s just other players that are within proximity of each other. I was watching this thread to see how the conversation evolved. I get the gist of your QoL. ttyl
