[Feature] add blood requirement rather than directly replacing hunger

[Jackiecrazy]

What would you like to have changed or added to Vampirism

A config option to make vampires capable of going hungry, in addition to the thirst requirement. Lore-wise, it could be a "cursed" mode where your body still needs to eat to stay alive, but cannot replenish lost blood or something.

Does this make the mod experience more balanced?

It does not, but I want to be miserable. It also helps with compat for food mods like spice of life and harder natural healing, which change the food-health dynamic.

Can you provide additional resources (etc. textures or models)

Probably won't be necessary.

[Sadzony]

Spice of life still works, allowing you to eat food to balance your diet and gain the diet bonuses even as a vampire! So that makes vampires not need food for sustenance and for vitamins instead, and I feel like that is good enough :D I am by no means against your idea, just putting my opinion out there

[MarioSMB]

I think this would be a nice improvement, maybe one could take it a step further; thirst no longer replaces hunger at all but instead accounts for the extra powers vampires have (flight, regeneration etc), while normal human-like behaviour would still be governed by food, making regular farms still relevant and keeping players from just stocking up on hearts late-game.

[maxanier]

Making blood a dedicated resources used for skills would be a fundamental change of the blood system (more towards something like BloodMagic uses afaik). I don't think it would be a bad system, maybe even better, but definitively different. I don't think I want such a change at the moment

[MarioSMB]

That's fair, I have been thinking about how blood magic could be incorporated into the mod to effectively transform the progression into something more expansive and engaging in gameplay; elements of it already exist in the form of blood spikes and rituals.
But understandably there is only so much one can do and such a large change can shake things up for the worse if one is not careful!