Food and Milk, WaterFollow

Yes, you can have food and water in backpacks, and they will be automatically used.

The reason it says you are low on drink is because you only have 1 drink left.

Lol - yes, I still do that, there is something very very spooky about walking past your own corpse.


Yes, as Aubsp said, you backpacks are considered general inventory and your food and water will get consumed from them. The thing to remember, maybe for a bit later, is that you will always consume the first available food or water.. runing down the first column and then the second.

I say this because when you progress a bit you may make or buy food that has stats on it, if it is the first available food slot you will get the stats from it - but you will also eat it, not always what you want. So sometimes it is better to force feed yourself and keep your stat food in the first slot.


(that said... I always get distracted and end up eating .. oh well)


And no there is not a general search forums type option yet, too much load - but rumour has it, it MAY just MAY come some time:)


First spells at nine if i remember right? Have fun

Net weight before cooking. Kind of like a Quarter Pounder

A whole backpack devoted to rations and milk seems a bit extreme. Especially at low levels when you tend to stay close to town to sell your rusty longswords and train your new skills. I'd just try to keep a stack of each and remember to buy some whenever you hit town.

I think they've tweaked food prices so it no longer applies as much but, if you're money conscious, look at the "type" of food and compare prices. You want food that at least says "this is a meal", so don't buy any muffins, cookies, etc that say they're a snack. Snacks only last 15min, I believe meals last a half hour and so on. Anyway, it used to be where a loaf of bread ("a meal") cost less than rations did. Since scurvy isn't an issue in Everquest, you can keep your poor paladin eating nothing but bread for months. Likewise, milk is (was?) cheaper than water which makes no sense, but there you have it. Don't ask where the milk comes from -- there's no answer that'll make you feel better about drinking it. Heck, for that matter, try not to think about the condition of your milk when you dig it out of the bottom your backpack after spending a week in the Desert of Ro and use it to wash down your month old bread

Back to food types, they go snack, meal, hearty meal, banquet, feast and miraclous if my memory serves me correct. If you have money to burn you can buy hearty meals which will last longer so you'll make less trips to the store. Or sometimes you luck out around baking vendors and find someone who unloaded a bunch of food cheap (patty melts come up often). The other side of the coin is that you'll still need to buy drink and if you're buying one you might as well buy the other at the same time. There's not much for extended duration drinks; the standard is Fizzcutter Formula sold in Freeport (which is actually a hairtonic.. this is worse than the milk situation). It's kinda pricey though. A lesser known middle ground is Jumjum Juice sold in Rivervale. Lasts longer than water or moo juice, though less time than the Rogaine. Plus you won't have to say that you should have had a V-8.

It is for that reason I buy Iron Rations and Water for my character :D

Its a lot easier to think my character just broke out a snickers and an Aquafina and weighs less heavily on my soul.

People asking "where's the milk", I feel like im back in swg... RUN AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Thanks for all the great info from everyone. This is a great forum! Everyone tries to help each other and hopefully I will get to a point I can too but right now I am plotting along building her levels and gathering goodies to sell.

Right now I have a backpack full of stacks of fish rolls and a backpack full of Fuzzlecutter 5000. To be frank, I never have to worry about food anymore.