Crew Eats Food by viaconflictu is one of my favourite mods, but I find the flurry of notifications every time food is consumed by the crew quite distracting (three are shown in quick succession).

I made some suggestions to improve this a while back, but seeing as the author has not been active for two years, I figured I may as well implement them myself. Fortunately, it was easy to do with a patch.

This mod patches Crew Eats Food (required dependency) to make the UI less intrusive:

• Suppresses the notifications by attaching an empty Message to the mod's script. • Adds a live count of total remaining food and drink items to the magic effect description, visible in the Status Menu, to compensate for the removed notifications.

Overall I much prefer it this way, as I can quickly glance at the Status Menu at any time to see how much food and drink remains in the cargo hold.

I decided not to add counts for the mod's Ultra / Premium items. Apart from adding clutter to the Status Menu, counting them requires iterating through multiple FormLists, which is considerably slower than counting all food and drink using the generic vanilla keywords.

A full count of a stocked cargo hold takes around 0.1 seconds using the keyword-only approach, compared with around 2 seconds when the additional FormList counts are included.

TLDR: I tried it and it works, but it's not worth the performance cost.

A burst of item-added/removed events can occur when transferring multiple items, so the count is debounced with a very short delay to avoid repeating unneccessary work. Totals are then updated after inventory events have settled.

No other changes to the underlying functionality or FormLists have been made. The original mod's forms are only overridden where absolutely necessary.

I'm open to suggestions for further improvements, provided they're possible to implement as I don't have access to the original mod's source code.

Unfortunately I can only upload for PC and Xbox, as the original mod is not available on PS5.

Mod is also available for download on my NexusMods profile.