Carnivorous

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This information is reliable as of patch 2.0.201.44.

Carnivorous (D)

	Physical defect
	-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.

Carnivorous (D) is a physical defect that prevents the player from eating plant or fungus-based foods or ingredients.

Despite what the description says,

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
• Arguably, 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
• Causes the player to become ill for 2 hours when they eat non-meat foods, halting natural regeneration and making healing items half as effective

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)