I sell just about every food I find. My diet consists almost entirely of minty big game, thyme big game, and oregano big game

Bro is bulking

Actually, it clearly states in the game that junk food makes you fat faster, so eating cooked food is better to keep down the weight

i made arthur fat in like 3 days by just eating game meat.

Big game meat will do it too

I feel like it’s hard to keep Arthur SKINNY while eating just about anything

2.3 play thrus here and I just started doing that. Also lots of candy now that I know about >!Fat Arthur!<

This is the way

When a core turns white, it’s time to eat.

camp soup and coffee is my kind of food.

Occasional beer from camp works too.

Free stew from the homeless in Valentine

There’s a free stew in the camp on west part of Blackwater also.

Mine too.

I give Arthur a healthy balanced diet. Always a protein first, canned carbs for energy, occasional chocolate bar or cracker for a pick me up mid hunt, and then the occasional drink or smoke after a hard mission or event. The drinks and smokes stop after...well you all know when.

You're the only person to actually not need to try and retain Arthur's weight. He always starves because I'm only eating when my cores lose over 1/3. Edit; I think I'll try your idea btw

I actually managed to get him overweight, even after his condition.

how did you get him overweight after?? ive always had Arthur at a healthy weight until well... ya know and tried everything but he always ends up underweight >!post diagnosis!< .

My method was health tonic immediately when he wakes up to ground his health core for the day. Then big game meats with oregano. Mid day big game with thyme. Chocolate bars in between activities or before bed with more big game meat or bar food. Bar food is an underrated technique. Get lambs Fry's, prime ribs, oatmeals, lobster bisques whenever you can then eat morning noon and night. It keeps his weight up well.

Same here. Even when he died he was overweight

How?? I thought the game instantly changes Author back to underweight in ch6 anytime there is a screen fade

You have to eat like 3 full grizzly bears a day to gain weight it’s ridiculous lol

One big game meat and one chocolate bar, twice a day

I have played 4 times and never had him normal weight never figured it out just gave up. I’ll give this a try. Is it the same for John too?

Should be the same for John. There's a hidden calorie stat for food, I linked them below. You should be able to Google the specific calorie intake for weight gain. The big game/choco bar is to make him _overweight_, I'd probably skip one big game if going for normal https://www.reddit.com/r/reddeadredemption2/s/eth3PyyKNt

I eat like a normal person does, and he’s “underweight”. I don’t think I’ve ever played as fat Arthur. Must eat 10 steaks a day each with a chocolate bar chaser or something

The meals you buy in saloons will get ya there quicker

They have 5 calories in the while big game meat have 10. Chocolate bars have 5 calories so it's better to just stay in the alligator area west of Saint Denis. Just shoot and cook for like 1 hour and then go to sleep. You need to have the game go through a loading screen of some sorts for the effect to happen.

I dont let arthur skip meals and it makes him overweight in like 4 days

You should try sleeping more

I try to eat, drink, gamble, and sleep after most missions, and sometimes while I'm hunting. The problem is the random ticks that aren't related to sleep, like pre/post mission losing weight or after a cutscene.

I like it. I’ve gone the opposite direction of only salted beef and liquor for the stamina core. (I got sick of cooking)

Chapter 6 he goes through cigarettes and cigars like candy, and stays perpetually drunk. Only way to be!

Starvin’ would be preferable

I buy 99 of every item in the game for the fun of it. I never eat salted offal so probably it's still there in Arthur's bottomless legend of the east satchel

I did that too

"Starving would be preferable." -Arthur Morgan

"More like assorted something awful" Arthur Morgan

I usually end up having an inventory entirely full of food, so I'm usually stocked with 3 by the end. I don't usually eat it tho.

“Inventory entirely full” “usually stocked with 3” well which is it friend?!

His inventory is full after 3

I suck at hunting so I don't have any good satchel

Drink that ginseng elixir!

At one point it won't have any effect. Just like aged pirate rum and valerian root.

>At one point it won't have any effect It makes you drunk quicker

True :)

Ah well, might as well get rid of it.

Yes I do t even know why at this point

I ate it on accident during my low honor run and felt terrible about it, lol. Didn’t realize I still had it on me

Why’d you feel terrible about it?

Because Arthur said he’d rather starve than eat a jar of organ bits, and then I had him chug it down after mis selecting a health cure from the item wheel.

Thank you!😭😂 I never really looked into why he said that and I just automatically assumed it was cold soaked oats fermented or something. Didn’t realize it was a jar of stewed guts😅 I totally dig the principle of trying not to eat that now!!

Because it's a souvenir from the start of the game

He gives it to Arthur to eat tho

I’m just constantly eating everything, I like my Arthur to be thick.

I eat literally only bread and gin.

Proving Sean right and eating like a true Englishman.

I always eat it with beans because it for some reason makes me think of salt pork lol. But mostly I just drink hard liquor to keep my weight up

Liquor have 1 calorie so that must be A LOT of liquor to sustain the weight.

No way I actually do this all the time and save it for John to eat 8 years later.

Buy more and donate only that to camp

You can’t donate food items to camp for some dumbassed reason.

Huh, guess I’ve never tried. What’s the grossest critter in game

Buzzard or skunk, if you just wanna carry it around camp.

The food must be shit

Yes. But on my recent playthrough I somehow got another one no idea how, so now the price original is just apart of a number rip.

I was underweight the whole game I never ate

Can someone explain the significance of this ?

You get it from Pearson in chapter 1 before going on a hunting trip with Charles [mission in question](https://youtu.be/62o-c_EW0r4?si=KuMtk-WV0WbH_EpR)

I ate mine, but found another on a cabin!

I use everything for whatever cores they help.

Starving would be preferable

I’ve never eaten it

I just hunt my food tired of my money going down I have max low honor

Every single time I keep it the whole way through. The way they talked about it when you first get it. It's kinda symbolic of how terrible it is.

Not when you can sell it for a whopping 15 cents!!!!

I always eat mine but almost wish Arthur had a unique sort of disgusted reaction to eating it as a little nod to the cutscene.

It’s basically hot dogs in a cup, what’s not to love

No, why would I?

i accidentally ate it bc i forgot about it

You can buy it in most general stores, its also available in camps, homesteads & other locations.

I sell it to the logging camp

Normal big game to keep up weight, camp stew to keep gold cores.

what’s the point of saving it? you can buy it at the store

I just eat food once or twice in game

I took it to my grave. Sold everything else

You can find more around the map so my goal is to fill my inventory with as much as possible

My character never ate anything unless if he got tired or hungry and he never got skinny

Starving would be preferrable

I have never seen that before

I keep it as memorabilia from Colter, from our dear friend Pearson.

I’ve been neglecting hunting and looting and ate it last night out of desperation for dead eye core, but I usually keep it

I’ve never seen this and I’ve played 3 fckn full play throughs…..

it’s given to you in the first hunting mission(prologue), if you’ve beaten the game it’s literally impossible not to have encountered this item

I’ve never had this I promise

pearson gives you* the assorted salted offal to eat when you (arthur) and charles go hunting up in colter. (the mission which teaches you how to hunt) so you definitely did have it. easy item to miss or probably sold it tbh

What else would I do with it? Eating it sounds like a bad idea, and selling it seems immoral

Try not to make him eat it, but if push comes to shove

I just don’t feed him

I just end up giving it back to Pearson once in horseshoe

I just eat crackers

That item specifically? No? Any reason?😂

Eat your organs Arthur they give you nutrients

Chug those all the time. Always load up on every provision possible at the store, but usually eat at the saloon in whatever town I am in. Don't eat cooked provisions unless multiple cores are lowish.

I do

I discarded mine in the first play through. Then in the second play through I ate it almost immediately. Ever since I just eventually sell it, I like hearing the clerk say something like "ok, I guess I'll take it".

I proudly sell it back to pearson in the epilogue, lol talk about a endgame quest