I agree with LP. I'm not honestly super-obsessed with the why. If it's intended. If it's a bug. If it's cauldron.

It's the end result I'm concerned with. The current rate of decay is frustrating. May we alleviate it some. Please and thank you.


That said. My SP results were as I said pretty normal.
Food decayed over a couple RL hours at a steady gentle rate.
Raw food still died about 75% in those two hours, but properly smoking, pickling, drying food reduced that to a rate of something slightly less than a percent an hour. Not perfect. Maybe a little more than it was? But far more bearable than what's happening online atm.

As an aside for Jiro and J. I'm not trying to hound you folks as much as make it clear I'm not imagining this and it will make players pretty frustrated quickly in my opinion.
Thank you very much for the effort you are putting in here. It's appreciated.