Beware the stock levels and supplies!
Beware the stock levels and supplies!
Earneag Wulfcyn of Waedheald, County of Isilme (Friend code: 973BBC)
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Your stock levels of food is based on how much food your farmers produce. If you don't have farms you don't have food thus that city will not fill up your hunger. Same goes for a settlement that hasn't built a well. You can't regain thirst if there is no water.
As Alteogre and LegendofStein said, you don't simply not have to eat while in a town.
The tavern is what makes this mechanic work. Your farmers produce food, and the tavern has a stockpile of food in it which goes up and down over time.
Were you at war and they trampled fields and food stopped being produced then you would slowly lose food and have to pay attention to your hunger mechanic again.
Likewise if a catapult hit the only tavern in the city, and the stockpile mechanic was wiped out you would likely have to manually get food from the farmers, although this nuance of the mechanic I don't think has been addressed. Kinda just 1+1=2 type stuff I'm doing.