Editing Malnutrition

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'''Malnutrition''', referred to as ''starvation'' in the moodlets, is a health condition that occurs once any pawn's [[saturation]] reaches 0%. After this point, malnutrition increases by 2% per hour, with initial symptoms including a faster hunger rate, slight loss of consciousness, and an increased chance of social fighting. Advanced symptoms include loss of consciousness, and eventually, death. Malnutrition will begin decrease by 2% per hour after the pawn is fed, during which time they continue to suffer from the different stages of the condition.

Unless forbidden to do so, a malnourished pawn will eat literally whatever they can get their hands on (whether it be a [[lavish meal]], some raw [[food]], or even a human corpse) in order to prevent themselves from further starving to [[Death|death]].  Once the pawn has eaten something, the malnutrition will gradually decrease, and until it is gone the pawn will have increased [[Saturation|hunger]].

== Stages ==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Label
! Severity
! [[Consciousness]]
! [[Hunger Rate Factor]]
! [[Social fight]] chance
! [[Mood]]
|-
! Trivial  
| {{0|0.}}0 - 0.19
| {{0}}{{--|5%}}
| {{++|50%}}
| {{Bad|x1.5}}
| {{--|20}}
|-
! Minor    
| 0.2 - 0.39
| {{--|10%}}
| rowspan="4" | {{++|60%}}
| {{Bad|x2}}{{0|.0}}
| {{--|26}}

|-
! Moderate 
| 0.4 - 0.59
| {{--|20%}}
| {{Bad|x2.5}}
| {{--|32}}
|-
! Severe   
| 0.6 - 0.79
| {{--|30%}}
| {{Bad|x3}}{{0|.0}}
| {{--|38}}
|-
! Extreme  
| 0.8 - 0.99
| {{Bad|max. 10%}}
| –
| {{--|44}}
|-
! Extreme  
| 1
| colspan="4" | '''[[Death]]'''
|}

'''Note:''' Because malnutrition decreases Consciousness, it can be very dangerous to wounded prisoners, recent surgery patients, or others who may already have a Consciousness at 10% or lower and are unable to feed themselves. Dropping -5 or 10% more can kill just that quick.

== Prevention ==
Malnutrition will affect [[Consciousness]] which affects most actions a pawn can take, including [[trade]], [[movement speed]], and [[shooting accuracy]]. Thus prevention is important.

Straightforward: Make sure there's a decent surplus of food in your freezer. Don't take on more colonists, guests, prisoners, and slaves than your food supplies can handle. Remember that intensive [[Animals#Taming|taming]] will demand a lot of food. Ensure that meals are easily accessible - raw food is significantly less efficient in terms of nutrition than even [[simple meal]]s. 

Don't be afraid to resort to using a [[nutrient paste dispenser]] in certain circumstances (e.g. [[toxic fallout]], wildfire that wipes out a significant chunk of wildlife, migration); [[nutrient paste meals]] are the most efficient way to get nutrition from food out of any meal, yielding 0.9 [[nutrition]], the same as a simple or fine meal, from only 6 of any ingredient and you can't get [[food poisoning]] from it.

== Version history ==
* Alpha 16 - Malnutrition also increases the hunger rate and likelihood that affected pawns will start a social fight if slighted or insulted.
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* [[Version/1.0.0|1.0.0]] - Minor starvation (below 25% severity) no longer causes miscarriages.