Carnivorous

This information is reliable as of patch 2.0.201.44.

Carnivorous (D)

	Physical
	-2
	Photosynthetic Skin
	Carnivorous
	no

Carnivorous (D)

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You eat meat exclusively.

You get no satiation from foods that aren't meat.
If you eat raw food that isn't meat, there's a 50% chance you become ill for 2 hours.
You can't cook with plant or fungus ingredients.
You don't get ill when you eat raw meat.
You can eat raw meat without being famished.

Creatures with the Carnivorous defect cannot eat plant- or fungus-based foods or ingredients.

Advantages & Disadvantages

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

• Can be useful for those who do not intend to dip into cooking, but would like to occasionally get bonuses from their food.
• Arguable, it is easier to stay satiated, because you can simply eat the corpses of many creatures that you kill, rather than taking time to build a campfire.
• Makes it a bit easier to get the Eat an Entire Bear achievement.

Disadvantages

• Prevents the player from gaining access to many powerful Cooking effects. For example, the player cannot gain Psychometry by cooking sun-dried bananas.

Trivia

• Carnivorous replaced the Ravenous defect as part of the cooking and hunger rework.
• Carnivorous was previously a 1-point physical mutation (not a defect), but was changed to a defect after the mutation balance overhaul (Patch 2.0.201.44)