Eating food should give you increased stamina regen/cap

[QP Evergrande]

Stuff about food

Sounds pretty cool but it also sounds like it'd be a nigh nightmare to implement since it'd take tweaking a lot of values for individual foodstuffs. Maybe without the taste stuff it could work alright.

It shouldn't take that much tweaking, surely. This is mostly stuff that's being added. Each ingredient - grapes, carrots, wheat, eggs, whatever - just needs to have a baseline set of constants for nutrition and taste added. Then you factor in the plant's potency to get the actual value. (I'm thinking nutritional worth should be a straight multiplication, but increases to calories and taste should be logarithmic) After that, everything simply gets added together in the recipe. The recipe then has a "cooked" variable that determines how much nutrients are lost/effective calories are gained, and maybe also the "bites" variable depending on the volume of stuff added in... That's nine or ten more properties on top of the eight or so that plants currently have. A significant increase, sure, but worth it.