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No Survival, Only Sandbox
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this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
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I just don't want to play games with survival mechanics. It is fundamentally just preventing bars from decreasing to zero, and the more of them they are the more annoying it is.
there's ways to do it so it isn't just a decreasing bar
Think about Valheim's food system. If you aren't familiar, if you have no food you have 25 health only and 50 stamina (i think)? You have 3 food "slots" and food has various durations from 10 minutes to an hour. Various foods give various buffs, focusing on health, eitr (mana), stamina or balanced food. Your food load-out can be customized for whatever you need (more stam for building/exploring, more health for boss fights, etc). Unlocking new higher tier foods makes you more powerful in a direct way, and you use lower tier plentiful foods when you're doing low risk stuff like hanging around your base.
That's a "positive" system instead of the "negative" system of just needing food or you don't heal/die - and it's way more fun, interact-able and interesting.