Here’s your realistic configuration recommendation for the Desperate Hunger mod, formatted with Steam's supported BBCode:


Goal: Increase immersion with desperate behavior that aligns with real-world animal and human patterns – brutal but believable.

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• Feature enabled – ✔
  Keeps the mod active.
  
  
• Desperate predators ignore size – ✔
  Realistic: Starving predators may attempt larger prey in desperation.
  
  
• Desperate prey ignore size – ✖
  Herbivores may snap, but they don’t go after thrumbos.
  
  
• Desperate animals ignore combat power – ✖
  Even desperate creatures avoid suicide fights if possible.
  
  
• Desperate herd animals eat own kind – ✔
  Cannibalism in herd animals (e.g. pigs, deer) under extreme starvation is documented.
  
  
• Desperate animals attack allies – ✖
  Real packs rarely turn inward unless one is dying already.
  
  
• Desperate humans – ✔
  Historically accurate (Donner Party, sieges). Makes RimWorld even more morally gray.

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• Prey target max relative size: 0.60x
  Only smaller or similarly sized prey are considered. No squirrels eating elephants.
  
  
• Minimum malnutrition to hunt wounded: 35%
  “Moderate malnutrition” – desperate enough to try an easier target.
  
  
• Minimum malnutrition to hunt healthy: 55%
  “Severe malnutrition” – a last resort.

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• Ignore fertilized eggs – ✖
  Desperate animals eat whatever they can find.
  
  
• Desperate prey select random targets – ✖
  Keep predator-style logic for immersion.

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1. Hardcore survival:
   Lower wounded hunt threshold to 25%, turn on "attack allies".
   
   
2. Softer gameplay:
   Raise thresholds to 40% / 70%, turn off “Desperate humans”.
   
   
3. Biome realism:
   Lower thresholds in desert/ice biomes where starvation is common.

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Summary: With these settings, you’ll get realistic desperation without turning the game into a chaotic bloodbath. Balanced for survival tension, but still grounded.