Why does honey decay in Wurm?

[ClericGunem 275]

Honey does not naturally decay.  Why go through so many realistic things, ruin food fast if we carry it, add a pantry to store food longer (if we had snow which is more rare than supreme salt for 42 days) and THEN make honey something that decays.  Seriously this one just bothers me.  

 

I feel i would lose some self respect if i had to suggest something so obvious, so i just want to know why.  So Why?

 

Edited December 10, 2016 by ClericGunem
semi-snarkiness removed

[Spolmit 644]

Honey is something of an oddity, in that, unlike most foods, it doesn’t spoil over time. In fact, the oldest known sample of honey, found in an Ancient Egyptian tomb and dated to approximately 3000 years ago, was still supposedly perfectly edible

 

Source: http://www.compoundchem.com/2014/08/21/chemistryofhoney/

 

I was not aware that honey in Wurm does decay. IF we were playing a totally life-like game then it should not, however as we all know, Wurm has its own rules.

 

[ClericGunem 275]

I had forgotten about some in a bucket in my backpack i pulled from wild hives a few days ago

 

Edited December 10, 2016 by ClericGunem

[Ostentatio 2111]

Because this is Wurm, where even a ceramic vase or a ball of solid gold inexplicably crumbles to dust when exposed to air.

[ClericGunem 275]

10 minutes ago, Ostentatio said:

Because this is Wurm, where even a ceramic vase or a ball of solid gold inexplicably crumbles to dust when exposed to air.

 

True, i was trying to limit my scope to food stuffs, but agreed.  Just bothered me a lot to see this one, would have been nice to see one food stuff that did not have to worry about

[ctaylor77 18]

I was wondering the same thing myself. I think they could let this 1 item go undecayed anywhere in game. It should only change when cooked with something. Unless the intention is to store in wax sealed containers? Kinda silly , my wife is a bee keeper in real life, and she asked me about this whole bee keeping thing when I told her Wurm was adding bees.

[Kyu 20]

I think you can preserve them with sealed containers.

 

However, the thing that bothers me the most is that honey can decay in an active hive. Some days ago, after the server updates/reboots, I found that the honey in my domestic hives had some damage on it. That forced me to clean pick them (I usually leave like 1kg honey in the hive), and feed them with sugar instead. This is insane, like the thing is not even organic. It is like if you forgot to milk a cow, then its milk got infected and kill the animal.

 

I also noticed that some wild hive also got damage too (in addition to the damage of the honey inside). But I am not sure if it is because of the server, or some wurmian just decided/tried to shake the hive.

 

 

[Matholameu 345]

+1 for removing honey decay

decay.

[Makarus 458]

11 minutes ago, Matholameu said:

+1 for removing honey decay

decay.

 

 

Realism: opened a bucket of honey earlier this year, 10yrs old, crystalized.

###### candy. Oh ###### so good.

 

 

Much like wine, honey improves with age

 

It's really the bee's knees.

Devs, the perfect mead is calling.

It needs your help.

Honeybrew Meadery has suffered enough, no?

 

Edited December 11, 2016 by Makarus
the honey tastes sweet, noble, and utterly delicious.

[Ayes 3715]

Yep, I had gathered a bit of honey and stored it in a jar in my inventory. Some random number of days later was going to add some more collected and noticed the decay on it inside. Frankly I wasn't surprised but just disappointed. Typical WO punishment for harvesting anything and then not storing in bins or some such containers.

 

It would be a sweet surprise to find one fine sunshiny day that honey no longer would have any decay. Teeth too! At least no dentists are required here. Maybe they should protest too...

 

=Ayes=

[Retrograde 12014]

This will be addressed in the next update

[Edzwarr 197]

NOTHING on deed should decay PERIOD, with over 30 days of upkeep ! But you know Chores Online likes us running around repairing things cause we dont have enough chores to do in game

[Matholameu 345]

9 hours ago, Retrograde said:

This will be addressed in the next update

Woot! xD

[Ostentatio 2111]

Strictly speaking, "decay" doesn't have to mean literal decay. Like, if I leave honey out in an unsealed container, it might not rot, per se, but it's sure going to get messed up by something, whether it's bugs or something else.

[Brash_Endeavors 4738]

Next Update: ANTS

 

 

 

Ants in your pantry

Ants in your bed

Ants in your pants ...

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 11, 2016 by Brash_Endeavors

[elf 156]

7 hours ago, Edzwarr said:

NOTHING on deed should decay PERIOD, with over 30 days of upkeep ! But you know Chores Online likes us running around repairing things cause we dont have enough chores to do in game

I should be able to like this one twice. 

So LIKE.

[elf 156]

36 minutes ago, Ostentatio said:

Strictly speaking, "decay" doesn't have to mean literal decay. Like, if I leave honey out in an unsealed container, it might not rot, per se, but it's sure going to get messed up by something, whether it's bugs or something else.

 

The only bugs in wurm are the ones causing things like embark on your cart (oops, camera freeze, relog! Hope not to die because of a bug...) 

 

The other bugs feel the wrath of my longsword.  Other than that, we are pretty safe from bugs.

[ClericGunem 275]

If we had ants in Wurm i imagine they would be 1 meter tall, travel in swarms, and if they saw you your honey becoming spoiled would be the least concern..

[Theonis 160]

Honey has a number of things that does effect it.  Like water that is in the air, or lack of.  I'm not going to get deep into it becuase its some egg head point that isn't really important.  To the point though, I would think that the decay factor is there just like every thing else in wurm that decays.  If you leave the game, there needs to be a way to have it vanish.

[joedobo 1201]

imo, the whole approach about not letting us put stuff in the FSB and that larder things is dumb. 

 

I would have just added all that stuff as a FSB item, and frankly, I'm going to mod it into WU 1.3 comes to it.

[Niki 2278]

Nothing makes sense in this game I've come to realize, some could even say this game is not suppose to mimic the real world and logic. So I've accepted Wogic in my life as it's for the best, no sense to get angry anymore, okay maybe just a little.