Hunger and Thirst

Rhizome as an RPI is a simulation involving survival elements, including the need to feed and water your character periodically. Your character will become thirsty and hungry more or less quickly depending on how actively they are consuming their stamina. Hanging around a tavern socializing will make your hunger and thirst accumulate much more slowly that running around the jungle chopping down trees for lumber.

As your hunger and thirst become an issue, all of the various rolls you make to do things -- fighting, crafting, harvesting, moving around -- will become worse and worse until you'll find it hard to do anything at all.

To avoid this fate, you can eat and drink, obviously. The higher quality your meal, the more sustenance you will get from it.

You can EAT <food> to eat food from your inventory, DRINK <liquid> to drink from a potable source in the room, such as a river, or DRINK [from] <container> to drink from a liquid container in your inventory filled with drinkable liquid.