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Frackin Universe - Vanilla Food Patch

"FU being FU"

Hah!, but yeah, pretty much exactly that.

I see, that makes sense now. However, why bother with adding a "complex" and all encompassing diet system for them to then decide to half-ass it because they didn't feel like putting the extra work to finish it?

I guess it's FU being FU.

I think they got about half-way through making it before realizing that no-one would pick a race that could not eat the high-end foods (the one's that give 5-minute buffs), due to those foods violating the diet system as it was envisioned.

And they weren't about to make any "new" meals to fill the gap, so the exceptions started.

IIRC, Chocolate and Milk were semi-deliberately left out of the "diet" system because the person in charge of it at the time wasn't going to deny Chocolate to anyone, and Milk was a requirement in far too many meals.
(the "why keep this in my valuable 'fridge space if I can't eat it" problem)

That said, I'm fine with the changes you've made, if they're going to do a restrictive diet system then by god do a restrictive diet system and don't make exceptions.

Exception-making is what mods are for.

I apologize for my typos in the comments, I'm sleep deprived but hey! I can finally sleep well by confirming (again) that FU is a mess and not my fault.

Done, tell me if it is indeed working as it should. I just hope that FU puts their shit together in this totally important nitpick.

Hey, I checked FUs diet config and it seems that the chocolate uses the "sugar_food" effect and, although that effect exists, it is unused in the diet system !
The system works like this, there is different "xxx_food" effects, and those effects are grouped in each diet type. However I noticed that "sugar_food" is not even in the file, just the bonus effects for ingesting it (which is called "HIGH_GLUCOSE", and looking at the file its a diet group used for "Candavasians" according to the comment on the file). This explains why you get no penalty for eating the chocolate bar, meaning tha either FU forgot about that or is a left over that they didn't care to fix (which is very plausible considering that people still need to use my patch for this stuff...).

Anyways, I'll add those items back and I'll change the chocolate bar from "sugar_food" to "plant_food" as it's the closets diet that can eat sugar stuff (omnivores have no problem to eat either type of food).

That's kinda like how Chuckle fish is with Starbound's huge ass bugs like even avian's beaks when it comes to hats and how random generator monsters change colors when captured.

I think Starbound has been filled with bugs that they just don't want to hot fix for some time now.

TL;DR: Long rant aside, you should report it to the FU team to fix them, as it's their responsibility in the first place to check this basic stuff is indeed working. Sorry for any inconvenience.
If you want I could add them back but It could cause problems in the future.

In the latest update I removed the .patch from those items and a couple more as I noticed that they are already included in the newer version of FU and it may cause problems to patch already patched items. I assumed that they were working as intended because I checked their code an it seemed fine.
It appears that the FU team doesn't quite care about their own diet system if they keep changing and breaking stuff and not adding all the vanilla items I patched, this patch has been around almost a year now and I originally created it as a temporal fix until they decided to add at least all vanilla items but It seems I was wrong. What this patch does is to add the diet effects already existing in FU to the items they for some reason haven't patched, so if the effects is not working as intended I can't do much about it.