Bad Food Item Slot Placement

[Arrhythmia]

As it stands, when your character picks up a piece of perma-food, it will not go into the "e" slot unless "e" is the only available slot. This is to keep you from double-tapping away a ration.

HOWEVER

Some backgrounds, such as Gl and Fi, start with exactly five pieces of equipment, which puts their free ration in the "e" slot. This is pretty bad, IMO, and I think we should fix this. Suggestions I have to fix this include "always assign the ration to some distant slot like z" and "remove food".

[mps]

I suggest that food default to b to streamline early game breadswinging.

[Sandman25]

I suggest to reserve b slot for weapon and never put anything else there unless it is last free slot.

Edit. Sorry for off topic.

[xentronium]

I'd like to see food be removed from the inventory and get its own special menu accessed by the 'e' key.

[archaeo]

I looked around for awhile to see if I could find a clever image or something that would say "remove food" in a neat way, but I couldn't, so all you get is this dejected string of text, in which I state unambiguously that food is a dumb mechanic and removing it is the right thing to do.

Since they're not going to remove food, xentronium's idea of putting it in a separate menu altogether is fine and good, as long as we have to live in the darkest timeline where food continues to exist.

[PleasingFungus]

I looked around for awhile to see if I could find a clever image or something that would say "remove food" in a neat way, but I couldn't, so all you get is this dejected string of text, in which I state unambiguously that food is a dumb mechanic and removing it is the right thing to do.

Since they're not going to remove food, xentronium's idea of putting it in a separate menu altogether is fine and good, as long as we have to live in the darkest timeline where food continues to exist.

sometimes I think people in this forum might be a little bit... dramatic.

[archaeo]

sometimes I think people in this forum might be a little bit... dramatic.

If I went back in time to kill Hitler, and came back to the present day, Crawl wouldn't have a hunger clock.

[bel]

Any slot is ok for food, except "y".

[jejorda2]

Typing "ey" to eat chunks is to much work. "ee" is where it's at. Hence the original post.

[rockygargoyle]

Typing "ey" to eat chunks is to much work. "ee" is where it's at. Hence the original post.

you can always set a macro

[tasonir]

As someone who routinely struggles with the 52 inventory slot limit, having food be in another menu would be nice to free up those extra 2-4 slots. Would that mean you couldn't wield bread anymore? What will the breadswingers do? Can you swing scrolls?