Lets be honest many posts with the same title and details will have been made but i think we can all agree its because its one of the most highly requested Ideas in the entire community in my eyes. And lets be honest i imagine rare will have looked at these and probably started to create alpha versions of food or drafted ideas into how they would be implemented and everything etc. This is probably going to be a long post sorry, ill explain the main points though:
Food is a big part of pvp and basically the whole game with it giving money as well as health so more types should be implemented
Examples, that ill explain further down the line.
Coconuts
Fish
Pineapple
also, the ability to cook types of food.
now onto the actual food post
So food at its current state is quite basic and realistically easy to understand. eat a banana gain health, store banana in a crate and get money once its full. This is great and all but i feel like after a while bananas get boring with added issues about the actual life in the whole map i feel like adding different types of food would bring some life to the mostly quite dead map because it shows that not only bananas are being grown around the area. before the barrel patch as well it was quite easy to get health through eating bananas, to the point in pvp it wasn't just who had the best aim/skills but who could board the other ship the best, but thats a discussion for another time. Adding different fruits would realistically work how the cursed balls work due to limited room on the quick bars which are most likely already planned to be certain items. anyway back to the actual post, adding more food would mean that it would make a player actually think about what they eat and whether it would be efficient to eat say a banana over say a cooked fish, which ill go into detail later. So what food types would be added? ill explain my ideas now about that.
Coconuts
so coconuts as well all know is quite an exotic fruit and grown in quite tropical climates and islands like the sea of thieves, so why not add them, it would be quite easy in my eyes to add them as you could get them through barrels or a cool feature would be if you went up to a certain tree and pressed X or the key for PC (idk i play Xbox so dont at me)
and it would say fall off the tree and you could pick it up as if it was on the floor.
This is how it would work in terms of health
Eating it would give you health close to the same as banana, in terms of how this works, you eat the banana with the skin why not eat the shell of a coconut. in terms of percentage of health gained about 25-33% return once ate
in terms of money it would work the same as bananas as in terms of bananas and wood planks where you fill up a crate and sell it for money, maybe bout the same as current prices so about 500-1000 gold.
Fish
Now we all can see fish throughout the shores of the islands and lets be hones they look quite tasty, and why bot implement the feature to eat them and catch the with fishing rods. I've made a previous post about this here https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/73055/fishing where i talk about how it would help to gain money and how it would happen. Which is just casting a rod into water and with a prompt a fish would come out once reeled back in, this combined with the new rowboats would be quite a peaceful way of gaining money.
now in terms of how it would help with food i feel like i would now need to explain cooking, an action i feel should be implemented to aid and increase food types due to it making it able to combine foods to make better versions.
such as say a coconut with a banana would make a drink of some sort that would increase your health for say 50-60%. to make it, it would have to be a separate piece of equipment and would be made straight away due to the fact it would be quite complex pieces of code and might cause memory issues with the game as well as how long its their for and other variables for that puzzle.
But in terms of fish i would say it would become a cooked fish, and would increase your health by 40%-45% on consumption. in terms of money as i have previously mentioned in the post about the fish it would be a quest you got from the merchant guild.
Pineapples
pineapples would be a cool addition to the food lot as it would be in my eyes the only one that would be only gained from actually finding it in the wild and grown(besides from fish, but thats from the sea not land) as pineapples would be a much rarer source of food and better due to this. also, once again due to this being the sea,the sea of thieves you would eat the pineapple whole because lets be honest why not bananas with skin coconuts with the nut and pineapples husk.
eating said fruit would give you 35-40% health return and realistically base not added with anything through the cooking feature.
altogether this would create a hierarchy of food and its benefits to the player
it would go like this:
The Best
food made through cooking
Fish
Pineapples
bananas and coconuts
The Worst
Altogether mind i feel like some of these ideas are ones that have been suggested a lot and realistically should be added into the game if not thought about at least. If you have any thoughts please say like because this is a subject i feel community input is quite important in.
