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Breakfast is the most important meal of the rest of your life-wait I already said this?
==Nutrition==
Nutrition, or how full you are, is a surprisingly important yet often overlooked aspect of [[IVAN]]. While this often becomes negligible if you have a happy [[Seges]] to pray to, it's important to know certain things about being too hungry or too full.
===Hunger States===
Most know about this, but it's actually not optimal to be at a satiated state. Instead, you don't want any state at all. Being at satiated, bloated, or overfed will lead to losses in agility, and overfed even causing constant vomiting that can lower all stats. On the other hand, being hungry, very hungry, and starving will lead to a loss in arm and leg strength, and starving leading to fainting spells that speed up your death and leave you vulnerable to attacks. It is okay to be satiated (and bloated in the scenario of fighting [[Huang Ming Pong]], but avoid staying in these states for too long. This means that it's okay to let food rot away. In fact, leaving food at entrances to levels will preserve them indefinitely in time to be eaten later.
===Where to get more food===
Usually runs have enough food to not be an issue. However, if you find yourself low on food, here are some options:
- Shops: all shops, with the possible incredibly unlucky exception of [[Merka]], will provide some amount of food. Sell some stuff to buy more food.
- Gods: [[Seges]] obviously provides food, but 4 other gods also provide a sustainable method of acquiring food. [[Silva]] and [[Nefas]] will feed you if you are very hungry, but you '''have''' to be very hungry or starving, just being hungry won't prompt their attention. The mistresses a happy [[Nefas]] gives you also can hold a banana (I wonder what they use it for?) or rarely the [[Holy Banana of Oily Orpiv]] (I wonder what they use that for????????). [[Mellis]] will constantly fill your cans and bottle with possible foodstuffs (and can replace banana peels with uneaten bananas!), and [[Cruentus]]'s constant bottle of troll blood serve as nutrients.
- Levels: certain levels have a higher amount of creatures that can serve as food. The carnivorous plants of UT03 drop kiwis to eat, and [[Genetrix Vesana|Jenny]] drops 3 pineapples. UT04, a.k.a. the [[Crystal Cave|crystal caves]], hold some bears and lions than can easily satiate you. The wolf room, found randomly from GC2 to GC4, provides a lot of food.
===What to avoid===
I considered putting this section at the end of this topic, but knowing how people are, I need to say this first. Do not eat poisonous creatures (unless you're abusing some exploit somehow) like spiders, snakes, and skunks. These will not only give little to no nutrition, but also badly poison you, and even with poison immunity you will constantly throw up, losing much more nutrients than you gain. Frogs are an '''absolute last resort''', as they offer little nutrition while also decreasing all your stats and making all gods angry with you. Also, just because there is a liquid in a bottle doesn't mean you should drink it. Remember to look for the keep away from children tag in size 18 gullible font in the corner, and avoid acidic drinks like vinegar, sulfuric acid, and liquid mustard gas.
===What to normally eat===
As you run around in the world, eat the food that are either heavy or rot quickly, like fruits or corpses. Most normal sounding creatures are safe to eat, including all dog variants, lions, bears, meese (wait, the plural of moose is moose? and the plural of sheep is sheep? not shoop?), buffalo, magpies, hedgehogs, cats, rats, bats, mammoths (though they usually serve better pets), and ostriches. Goblins and Gibberlings are also safe to eat, but be careful that you don't eat the zombie of one. If there isn't a scrumptious corpse nearby, meats and breads provide great nutrition while being long lasting. Finally, eat the food in cans last (pun intended?), as they last forever. Troll blood also gives great nutrition, but since it also heals the user and gives regeneration in future versions, you'll probably want to use it at a more vital time.
For foods that increase stats or give effects, such as [[ommel]] excrements, [[Carrot|carrots]], [[Blink Dog|blink dog flesh]], and [[Floating eye]], you may consume it whenever you want, or you might want to save it to clone/mirror to increase the overall stat gains or gain effects permanently
===What to unnormally eat===
Occasionally, you might be getting desperate from the lack of food, so what should you eat/do? Besides making sure you're not burdened or stressed, here are the unfortunate options you may end up deciding on if you can't do any of the above.
- Odd Creatures: This entails most of the other creatures in the game you can eat, many of which conifer negative effects. Antidote liquid is a great drink for any meal, but since it's a rarity, here are your options for a meal.
- Cannibalism:
- Praying:
==Wish==
