Metabolism

[open thunder]

This mod introduces two essential stats: Food and Water. Each stat is refilled with a gadget component for easy food and water creation.

Food: Decreases by .013 every 30 seconds. Starvation damage begins after it reaches 0.

Water: Decreases by 2 every 30 seconds. Dehydration damage starts after it reaches 0. Once hydration reaches 20% or less, you can no longer sprint until you replenish the stat above the threshold

The mod is plug and play with any conflict scenario that uses US and USSR Factions.

[astral spade]

Wonderful mod, brings back ACE Ration memories

[astral spade]

Now we're getting somewhere

[open thunder]

Im trying to figure out how i can add a slow screen shake lol that gets worse as you drink

maybe a random ragdoll here and there

[lime flax]

hell yeah

[oak perch]

I was running the mod and only could find the water bottle and apple, where would the alcohol be located?

Also was having issues with consuming the water is there a specific button that needs to be pressed, or do I need to have some of thirst meter down before attempting to drink the water?

Sorry for the questions, I know it’s a new mod, I’m just curious.

[open thunder]

will be adding hints to let you know you drank and for PC its R to use. For controller It would be the same button as if you were holding a flashlight and turned it on

items will also delete on use so that also will be a indicator

also forgot the alcohol prop lol

[still relic]

Can we do this in vehicles @open thunder

[open thunder]

should be able to. i'll check in the tools. you can verify use using the logs

[still relic]

Hell yeah

Drinking and flying

[rocky lantern]

Does it still work in pve scenarios?

[rocky lantern]

rather, it works in some specific scenario or it can be in any mode, where it works

[open thunder]

any mode that uses the Base character

[rocky lantern]

ok, ok

Great!

[sterile hare]

Does this mod add text saying “Sandy Shores RP” into the top left of the screen?

[sterile hare]

Defo need some sort of animation or something to determine when an item has been used as I believe spamming it causes crashes

[open thunder]

Not suppose to lol

[sterile hare]

Pretty sure it does at the moment

[open thunder]

pretty sure its a mod you are running causing it to show 😉

you most likely have a mod that also uses the Everon Life HUD

or there is just conflictions but anyway i'll have all the issues sorted soon

[viral nebula]

Nice... getting KCD Reforge vibe 😂

[fast root]

No it does lol

[open thunder]

ok thats on me lol i thought i removed that part of the HUD

HUD fixed

[fast root]

Lol hell yeah

[dreamy mortar]

What are the effects of starvation and dehydration?

[open thunder]

death

[still relic]

https://tenor.com/view/no-way-skeleton-bruh-gif-26457034

[rocky lantern]

Still work on GM?

[open thunder]

yes

working on animations right now so might have them in by friday

[rocky lantern]

Awesome!

[sterile hare]

Our unit is honestly waiting to implement this, we’re just not sure of any current bugs?

[open thunder]

only known issues are items dont delete on use and if you spam the item when you hold it it crashes you

but when i fix the delete on use then that crash issue should be gone

[sterile hare]

Can’t wait we run a British long range patrol unit and we want to account for food and water weight as well so this is perfect

[rocky lantern]

Is another mod necessary for this to work? because I have tried it in GM and I have not seen it reduce hydration or hunger

[open thunder]

as of right now it takes 100 minutes for it to kill you and about 15 or so before you notice a change on the HUD maybe a little longer

i might change it but i also dont want the food and water to be annoying

[rocky lantern]

you are absolutely right

[warm condor]

BEER

can i drink a billion of them?

[sterile hare]

https://tenor.com/view/star-trek-cigarettes-the-orville-bortus-500-cigarettes-gif-12658448946227274013

[warm condor]

https://tenor.com/view/one-trillion-beers-one-million-beers-one-billion-beers-trillion-beers-million-beers-gif-15392607188515463731

[terse plank]

I haven't seen either the food nor drink bar go down so far.

[stiff hedge]

Are the food items set up as consumables in the GadgetComponent? That should make them delete after use

[open thunder]

Making progress

[open thunder]

this has been fixed. when i pulled this from my RP it was checking for a specific component EL_Quantity before it would delete. now it no longer checks

[open thunder]

I'm using the metro props for now until i get my assets done. I added a beer, whiskey, and MRE

you now go uncon when drinking too much.
10 beers or 5 whiskey you pass out.
MRE refills 45 food and apple only 25
water refills 50 (adding a canteen next that can be refilled)

all items are in every arsenal. USSR might have a ton due to the metro props. i tried disabling them

[stiff hedge]

Btw there are actually some vanilla food assets for whatever reason in prefabs

[open thunder]

do they have MRE? i know of the canteen

found them! i'll use these instead

[sterile hare]

Can’t wait to add this

[stiff hedge]

They have meat and bacon I think..they might have American mre.. You can find them in Assets

As well as field kitchens for both factions. Other clues indicate they may have been considering a metabolism system in vanilla already

[still relic]

@open thunder does anything happen if I eat all the rations?

[open thunder]

the field kitchen i can probably set up for cooking and create something cool for the battlefield

[stiff hedge]

If I was at my PC I could help you..

[open thunder]

got the canteens set up and the metro props removed

[open thunder]

im gonna use mikes cooking framework to set up the field kitchen

i made raw and cooked version of the vanilla food items

[stiff hedge]

Yay you found them

Holy crap they're huge hahahahahha

[open thunder]

you can cook or grab a MRE from US arsenal or crackers from USSR arsenal both replenish the same amount 25 hunger
Cooked Steak (the big one) fills 75 hunger
cooked meat fills 50 hunger
canteen fills 50 hydration
water bottle fills 25 hydration
beer (red bottle) fills 10 alcohol

[sterile hare]

May I suggest, flatulance if you eat too much so your character will fart and burp loads if you eat too much too quickly

[still relic]

Extra if you eat beans

[open thunder]

yeah let me see what i can do

[stiff hedge]

If it's replicated it's not a bad idea as it gives you away

[sterile hare]

Yeah that was my thinking, you can’t exactly make vomit like dayz for example so farting and burping is probs next best as clownish as it sounds

I’d defo make it an option tho as I know for a fact milsim units will be trying to do shit and a group of new guys will purposely be making their guy fart and burp all along the way

[obsidian spindle]

Would there ever be a way to edit the behaviors in gm?

[dreamy mortar]

Sure, but i meant if you suffer effects during the process that leads to death, such as blurred vision, reduction of stamina, effects that force the use of water and food to maintain a state of performing activity!

[stiff hedge]

You definitely can make vomit by spawning a particle triggered by an animation event

Not easy though cause you also need to make the animation

The particle already exists in experimentsl

[open thunder]

no its just simple. thats up to someone to take it and make it better. im just creating a framework for it

[obsidian spindle]

@open thunder sorry for the ping but didn’t know if it got overlooked

[open thunder]

I'll look into but cant make any promises

[obsidian spindle]

Good enough lol

[stiff hedge]

Really cool use of the field kitchen. Do those dials have bones by chance? I could probably do a simple proc anim for you if you wanted

[open thunder]

they are the base game kill switches

[exotic scarab]

dayz 2

[tough karma]

Hey there! Loving the mod @open thunder - adds a fun new dynamic to our server.

Question: is it possible this mod is starving our AI to death overnight? Or does it only impact players?

[open thunder]

it is starving the AI lol i'll have it fixed today

[open thunder]

https://github.com/Hydr05kunk/Metabolism

[wicked jetty]

Hi, congratulations! I've been waiting for someone to do this for a long time. I also used food in Survive Everon, but I could only replace blood loss, I made food based on the saline bag, which is available in the reforger.
I started using your mod, which gives a great extra experience in a survive scenario.

[wicked jetty]

Hi! We've been playing a lot with my own Survive Everon scenario in the last few days, which already includes your mod.
The first 0.5 - 1 hour is very balanced, only after that we had to get water. Later we got hungry, so in about 1.5 hours we had to drink at least 2 times and eat once. That was good. What was really distracting later was that we got thirsty very quickly, we had to drink about every half hour. We play for 3-6 hours at a time, which means we had to spend a lot of time drinking.
Can I change this so that the character gets a little thirsty later? I was thinking 45 minutes instead of 30 minutes, and I'll adjust the meals accordingly.
Thank you very much for this mod, fantastic plus realistic experience!

[open thunder]

Feel free to edit the scripts for your specific scenario i just made it as is, even on my DayZ server its nothing like the mod i published. I've removed the alcohol and just made it food and water. If you use the GitHub you can run it without my mod and have way more freedom to change it

[wicked jetty]

Thank you very much, I will use it!

[dense latch]

Hello, would you be open to making the food/water items stackable? Not a big deal by any means, just helps with inventory management

[dense latch]

Also, there's a few print scripts that are flooding the server logs. If you want, I can dm you the console logs. But other than those, this is an amazing mod man, keep up the great work. I can't wait to use the field kitchen

[open thunder]

i'll post a updated version here

[open thunder]

you can duplicate it and feed it to ChatGPT or Bing AI and tell it to remove the prints until i can update it

[open thunder]

I'm updating the mod to only use:
USSR and US Canteens
USSR Crackers
US MRE
I wanted to make the mod more simple also wanted it to be plug & play for conflict modes without all the AI starving

[stiff hedge]

Hey Skunk, how is the metabolism node handled? Is it a custom component? If it is, then you came assign the component to only the campaign_player_base prefab for each faction and the AI will not need to eat!

[open thunder]

thats what my new update uses

[stiff hedge]

Awesome man! Isn't Reforger modding so much better than DayZ once you get it?

[open thunder]

ive been modding reforger since before 1.0. ive never touched DayZ lol

[stiff hedge]

Oh really? I thought I saw you there

[open thunder]

nah i made a DayZ for reforger tho

[stiff hedge]

I must be confusing you for someone else, my apologies! I have played your DayZ and liked it, it has the highest potential of all the DayZ's that dayz'd on Reforger haha. It's great fun

[dense latch]

With you wanting to keep it simple, do you still plan to make a field kitchen?

[open thunder]

I did but it required other mods to work. as soon as i can make my own cooking scripts i'll revisit it

trying to make this mod have no dependencies

[stiff hedge]

How do you wish for it to function?

[open thunder]

basically if you have specific prefabs in your inventory, you press F or Y (for xbox) it deletes the prefabs and after a set time it spawns a new "cooked" prefab either on the kitchen or in your inventory

[dense latch]

Also, if you're not aware, the food/water hud is not appearing

[open thunder]

are you in conflict?

[dense latch]

Solo gm, no other mods loaded

[open thunder]

might have to put a spawn point down first

I'll do another version tomorrow for GM

[dense latch]

I did that as well and still no hud, but much appreciated boss man

[open thunder]

try now

[dense latch]

Waiting for my Xbox to register the update lol

[open thunder]

never mind im going to have to make a separate GM version

[dense latch]

All good man

[open thunder]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/64DC1D98BF48F411-MetabolismGM

[dense latch]

Hell yea, getting ready to this. Quick question, is there a way to to edit the player food/water rate while keeping the AI rate separate?

[open thunder]

not at the moment no. it takes roughly 35 minutes for it to drain completely and another 10ish to die

i'll see if i can make it where the GM can disable it for the AI after they place them

[dense latch]

That would be nice, I made a mod that increases the drain rate and I definitely wouldn't want the AI to die at the same rate lol. But don't stress over it to much, it's not a big deal

And the gm version seems to be working as intended now

[terse plank]

Needs some sort of semi obnoxious screen fx like ace medical has to tell you you need to drink some mf water.

Also, the items need UI action indicators. I know it says it in the description but there's no UI action on the bottom left.

A question I have while testing the mod. Do the water and food indicators work seperately towards death time? Or do they have to both be bottomed out to start a death timer?

[open thunder]

when they reach 0 you will slowly begin to die. Dehydration kills you faster than starvation.

[open thunder]

My new update the AI will no longer have metabolism only the player. im doing some last minute tests and then i'll push the update

[dense latch]

Hell yea, sounds good man. I'll be able to test it later tonight

[open thunder]

Ai no longer starve and i added the ability to drink from the wells around the map or any map thaty uses the base game well

[open thunder]

Animations next update

[wicked jetty]

Hi, could the campfire be used for grilling meat?

[open thunder]

yes, just need some raw and cooked food props

[wicked jetty]

Is this working now?

[open thunder]

sorta i added a burnt option and now it skips the cooked option and goes right to burnt. might just make the burnt option the cooked and release it like that temporarily

but im not planning on updating until the animations are ready and then i might have time to fine tune the cooking

[wicked jetty]

Then campfire cooking will be included in the next update, if I understand correctly.

[open thunder]

yes correct which should be tomorrow or the following day

[wicked jetty]

Sounds good! I'm using the github version, will you update that too?

[open thunder]

yes the new version changes it to where the metabolism component is no longer needed on character prefabs. instead its a modded CharacterControllerComponent. but you will need to add the HUD to the Base Character tho

[wicked jetty]

Thank you very much for the info, the campfire update will be really cool! I'll keep an eye out for when the update comes out.

[open thunder]

If its easier for you you can just use my mod on the workshop. its plug and play for any scenario

its APL-ND when it should have been APL. feel free to tweak it if needed. im changing the License in the next update

[wicked jetty]

I used the editable version because I adjusted the thirst and hunger so that we could last about 1 hour without thirst.
I also added food and changed the values, now in Survive Everon This is how I use it.

Sorry if what I write doesn't make sense, I'm using Google Translate! 😄

[open thunder]

yeah i made it 35 minutes for thirst and 38 minutes for hunger

[open thunder]

no youre good im just tired as its 3:43am for me lol

everything doesnt make sense right now even the tools

[wicked jetty]

Life is really hard in that scenario, there's not much loot. Also, sometimes we're adventuring for 4-6 hours straight, so it would be a lot to drink and eat every 30-40 minutes.

you created a great mod!

[open thunder]

I need to come check it out sometime

[wicked jetty]

Where are you from?

[open thunder]

almost done

[open thunder]

Florida in the U.S.

[wicked jetty]

I am from Hungary. We had our honeymoon in Florida and the Caribbean.

[terse plank]

[obtuse current]

i dont see ingame icons for food and drink any ideas ?

[open thunder]

Which version of the mod are you using? Conflict? Or the one that just says metabolism

[obtuse current]

Conflict Version

[open thunder]

use the one that just says Metabolism

i'm pulling the other version as there is no need for it

[wild root]

Is there US and Soviet MREs?

[open thunder]

yes

[wild root]

Furthermore, do the field kitchens have a purpose now?

[open thunder]

this was removed until i finish my own cooking system and it will be different mod that uses the metabolism as a dependency so people can have choice to have cooking or not. I'm just trying to make or find the right models for raw and cooked food. People can use Mikes Cooking Framework and set up the field kitchens in their scenarios kind of like what I did originally but it has too many dependencies for what i'm going for so I removed it. This mod is pretty much a core mod so people can build upon it and make things around it

[wild root]

Alright, cool

[normal trail]

Will there be more MRE options later on?

[open thunder]

Will probably do a retexture of the current one but thats as far as i'll go with it

[lavish mist]

Is this compatible with gm modes? I run an rp server and I’d love to use this once it’s done

[turbid nexus]

Hey Hydr0

Awesome mod !

Please could you update the Github version.

[open thunder]

yes it is

[lavish mist]

Do you have an idea when it would be up and functional again?

[open thunder]

its ready to go now

Metabolism can be used in any gamemode except Everon Life. It doesnt like it for some reason. The US have a canteen and MRE, the USSR have a canteen and Crackers. When yyou start starving or dehydrating you take damage every 30 seconds. The wells around the map allow you to drink as well

[wild root]

Fucking epic

[fast granite]

Cant wait to try this out

[terse plank]

Welp. I tried running an event with 120 people with this and couldn't make it through the debrief without incessant complaining. Maybe next time

[fast granite]

Damn what were they mad about?

[stiff hedge]

Probably something different lol. Humans don't like change

[lavish mist]

Is there prefabs for food and water?

[turbid nexus]

There is MRE/Crackers and both sides Canteens.

There was different meat types and apple but don't see them anymore.

[lavish mist]

Yay

[rapid gate]

Hey, man! Noticed there were two canteens in the arsenal on the US... Both looked liked canteens in the arsenal, but one put on the ground was an aspirin bottle the other was the canteen. What does the asprin bottle do?

[warm condor]

headaches

[dense latch]

Do you have any other mods loaded?

[open thunder]

it fully heals the player

[open thunder]

i can increase the decay time

[terse plank]

That might help? I think the bigger thing is the UI isn't there yet for player satisfaction across the board. Animations were a huge step in that direction. Screen FX and possibly buffs/debuffs would be an amazing expansion I think would satiate players not into it as a whole.

I'm personally very happy with the work you've done thus far. I think this is a great mod to push to and past completion.

My 2cents is this should be base game.

[open thunder]

I'm working on debuffs. Currently if hydration hits a certain percentage you no longer can sprint. I was thinking of adding the uncon screen effect if Food or water get low. Just trying to make this fit Conflict and Ops without making it feel like a Survival mode lol

Idk how to make UI's lol I used Everon Lifes HUD for this. I could lower the opacity or make it disappear if standing still

[terse plank]

With the update tomorrow I'm not in a spot to help with UI but I'll try and circle back with suggestions. The apple decal is a little off-putting I imagine.
I think the big one to making it not feel like a survival is to adjust timing. Alot of people were drinking and eating the moment their states hit yellow even if I was telling them to wait the full cycle.

[open thunder]

yeah yellow is 50% and red is 25

[silver sonnet]

Goodevening @open thunder question brother , in the dayzreforged3 im not able to eat and drink do you know whats hapening , also the zombies i see they dont atack players

[open thunder]

yeah i'll toy around with it and see if i can find something in game

[open thunder]

its because the player does not have a faction. As for food and drink i'm not sure why it wont work it worked on my test server. I don't have time to fix it unfortunately especially with the update coming the whole mode will break with the update

[silver sonnet]

How to i change the faction on ur mod brother ?

maybe the food and drink its the same problem of not having faction

[open thunder]

no it does not rely on factions and you have to add a Faction Affiliation to the roleplay character prefab

[silver sonnet]

@open thunder metabolism should be plug and play as u say brother , but in together with dayZreforged3 , function to eat and drink does not work for my side

or its anyway to desativate and keep the other type of food system

[open thunder]

The other food system was my metabolism mod just built in but I just removed it from the core and used the metabolism mod alongside it

[silver sonnet]

understand brother but together with dayzreforged3 dosent work , or need some specific configurations to make work the eating and drinking fuction

for example brother from the wells they can drink and satisfy

but to eat or drink the items dosent work

[open thunder]

Just wait for me to fix the mod. Won’t be for a few days or you can try to fix it yourself. This channel is for my metabolism mod not DayZ

[tough bloom]

So I don’t have you metabolism mod downloaded I really don’t know the effects of hunger and dehydration. I tested it on Single Play as I’m just playing Barbie’s testing other assets I do get dehydrated and hungry but I see no effects on the body really I’m not sure if there’s maybe another mod hindering I’m not even sure if there is an effect

[silver sonnet]

So its anyway to desativate this mod from the dayz while i wait for a fix ?

[open thunder]

Currently there is no effects except for you can’t sprint when thirst gets low

[open thunder]

No

[silver sonnet]

So no way to desativate the food and water ?

[open thunder]

No. It’s a dependency that is scripted to use a component that is on all characters.

[lavish mist]

So you gotta add the component to each character prefab?

[dense latch]

It should already be added to base character prefab I believe

[silver sonnet]

So how i can fix this problem of not eating ?

[tough bloom]

Gotcha thanks

[open thunder]

Waiting for me to fix the mode

[silver sonnet]

Copy that brother

Keep up the nice work

[rapid gate]

of course. Are there known conflicting mods?

[open thunder]

none

[dense latch]

No, I just hadn't even discovered the aspirin bottle so I thought it was another mod that did that

[open thunder]

the medicine bottle is getting removed until i can come up with a way to make it not so OP

[rapid gate]

Wait wait wait wait

Make it a silver bullet

[open thunder]

Its meant to be on the brink of death pop one to give you a little more time to get medical help but currently it fully heals you and stops bleeding

kind of defeats the purpose of medical supplies

[terse plank]

Make it so it adds blood. Ez.
Well. maybe not so ez Then people would just use it instead of saline

[stiff hedge]

The balance would be to make it disable all decay except bleeding but it still doesn't make sense

[open thunder]

Yeah it is hard to find a balance for it currently, that's why i just temporarily disabled it. Its still there and people can use it if they want but I'm going to focus on the food and water for now

I want to add screen effects for when you are hungry/thirsty

[open thunder]

I changed it to where if both food and water hit 0 together you become uncon until a player with a canteen gives you water

will revisit the screen effects another time

[tough bloom]

What if they don’t come

[open thunder]

im adding a timer for this reason lol i didnt think about that

[bronze lodge]

Where do I find the food and water?

[stiff hedge]

Would it be reasonable to suggest when food gets to a certain percentage you can go uncon and then eventually die at 0%?

[open thunder]

if you have access to the tools you can change the values

[open thunder]

US and USSR arsenals

[silver sonnet]

@open thunder Does the wells still working with this update ?

[open thunder]

They should

[silver sonnet]

copy that

[frigid comet]

Is it possible in the near future that we can adjust decay time through GM?

[turbid nexus]

Is there a way to adjust the water and food decay time to 2 hours ? Is this possible or not allowed? I'm using the workshop version.

[dense latch]

Only by making an override mod

[golden anchor]

@open thunder is there a way I can adjust the drain times and damage modifiers for hydration and energy? I am seeing it in the SCR_CharacterControllerComponent scipt and I know what fields I need to adjust, but I don't know if I create my own script using Metabolism as a dependency if it will override the CharacterControllerComponent script.

Does duplicating the script into my patch mod with Metabolism as a dependency work if I adjust the fields in my duplicated script from the CharacterControllerComponent script or will it still call to the original?

[open thunder]

Yes you should be able to duplicate it.

you adjust it here this is for hydration. its currently set for around 35 minutes so you would have to figure out the math for 2 hours

[stiff hedge]

Could create an attribute and survival category to edit the base rate in the prefab

[open thunder]

i like that idea

[lavish mist]

Does the food and drink show up in bacon

[terse plank]

No.

[lavish mist]

Damn

[terse plank]

You need to sniff around in the arsenal.
But this an easy fix on the mod side. The equipment needs to be identified as equipment the same as a radio is.

[lavish mist]

Too easy Ty

[terse plank]

@open thunder Papa?

[wicked jetty]

Hi, will you share the new version on GitHub?

[open thunder]

I thought I did but if I didn’t I’ll try to get around to it this weekend

[wicked jetty]

Thanks!