Food
Food is a crucial Item which can be bought as a Provision before entering a Dungeon. It costs 75 Gold each, but can also be looted from certain Curios.
Food is used:
- while camping.
- to eat when your party gets hungry.
- to heal the party member selected (which is discouraged, unless your hero is at Death's Door, due to its inefficiency.)
Due to Black Reliquary's expansion of the dungeons, it is recommended to take 16 Food on a short mission, 28 Food on a medium mission, and about 44 Food for a long mission. Additionally, you can take more amounts of Food for missions longer than a short mission in order to benefit from feeding your party 8 Food during camping (if your current party consists of 4 heroes without any trinkets or quirks affecting food consumption) for more healing and stress healing, otherwise it would be suggested to take less Food to save more money but still be able to give your party Food through camping to use camping skills and also keep food tiles at bay from starving your party.
Food and Hunger
Occasionally, the player will receive a popup message alerting them of the party's hunger. The exact mechanics of when the alert might pop up can be found on the Hunger article.
The "Eat" option will heal your party members by 5% of their HP, while "Starve" will have your party members suffer 20% of their maximum health in damage, and 20 Stress damage.
The party usually requires 4 Food per meal, 1 for each hero. A variety of quirks, diseases and trinkets modify this value.
Do note, if you do not have at least enough Food for the entire party to be fed, the entire party is forced to starve, and no Food will be eaten, regardless of any Food you may have below the threshold. Remember to set Food aside for everyone who needs it.
Trivia
- It is possible to receive more healing from eating Food by increasing Healing Received (with buffs like Experimental Vapours from a Plague Doctor, or Battlefield Bandage from an Arbalest) on the hero that is going to consume said Food.