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Food & Fatigue

You can harvest meat and organics from wolves/spiders, or produce organics yourself by re-refining gravel in a basic refinery (very slow output rate from trace elements) or using a toilet (I couldn't resist.) The organics + ice can go into a planter and slowly produce mushrooms. If you're lucky enough to find an apple in a trade station, you can turn that into a sapling that will (with organics and ice) grow more apples.

Once you have mushrooms, apples and/or meat, you'll be able to make apple juice, apple pies, roast meat or the very satisfying steak with mushrooms. You can consume any of these like the vanilla drinks, and they have varying effects: for example, steak with mushrooms will regen the most health and fill your hunger bar, but will add some fatigue (food coma.) Clang Cola on the other hand will give you an immediate boost to your fatigue bar, but make you hungrier. And I'd beware of eating raw mushrooms or meat if you're low on health!

Hunger doesn't give you any negative effects by itself but if you're below 30%, your fatigue bar will start to drop (and if you're well fed, above 70%, your fatigue bar will climb.)

Fatigue under 20% is a bit of an issue - you will start to lose concentration and blink, which is more annoying than dangerous, but not great if you're in a fight or flying at high speed towards a grid. Obviously eating filling food to get your hunger under 30% is one way to decrease fatigue but you can also jump into a cryopod or bed and you'll be well rested within a couple of minutes.

Planter and kitchen require the DLC. You can buy food or harvest animals if you don't have it, but it's a great pack so go buy it!