Do ghouls need to eat and drink to survive?
There is conflicting information in the Fallout universe on whether the ghouls need to eat and drink to survive.
In Fallout 1, if you
steal the ghouls' water chip and do not repair their water pump, the ghouls will die of thirst.
In Fallout New Vegas, the ghoul Harland claims to live off radroach and condensation, implying that ghouls need food and water to survive.
However, in Fallout 4, the ghoul Billy Peabody
claims to have been trapped in a fridge since the Great War (for 210 years), which means that he did not need food and water to survive for 210 years.
Do ghouls need food and water to survive? Is there any canonical information to support or refute either theory?
Best Answer
Yes, but sometimes Bethesda forget or ignore this. This also applies to super mutants and even humans.
For purposes of this answer, I'll also cover super mutants.
In the non-Bethesda games, every post-human has some explanation for where they get food and water. Harland (actually in New Vegas) mentions radroaches and condensation. Dean uses the Villa's vending machines. Jacobstown has a small garden and a brahmin herd (and Marcus complains about the NCR killing those brahmin). It's clear that they need food, even if their immunity to radiation, disease, and poison makes them a lot less picky.
Cases where they survive with no supplies are found in Bethesda games. Peabody and Fawkes, for example, apparently survive without food for several years.
Megaton also has no visible food supply, besides apparently scavenging a 200 year old super market filled with raiders, who apparently don't eat anything either. Shamus Young does this rant better than I ever could.
There is no case in a Fallout game where the player asks a post-human what they eat, and is told that they don't need to. If they apparently don't, it's an oversight, not something specific to ghouls.
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Do ghouls need to eat and drink?
In Fallout New Vegas, the ghoul Harland claims to live off radroach and condensation, implying that ghouls need food and water to survive.Do ghouls eat?
Ghouls don't need to eat in the short term like humans do. They can survive for one or two months just feeding on one body. However, some ghouls eat merely for pleasure. [1] An example would be Tsukiyama Shuu, who is fixated upon eating Kaneki Ken due to a bizarre curiosity as to how half-ghoul flesh would taste.Do ghouls need water Tokyo ghoul?
While ghouls cannot eat normal food, they are, however, able to drink coffee(and eat the beans), as well as regular drinking water.Do ghouls need to eat Reddit?
In fallout 4 there is a mission where you find a ghoul child in a refrigerator named billie. When you take him along, Bullet says that ghouls don't need to eat or drink. However, in fallout 1, if you steal the ghouls water pump in fallout 1, they die of thirst.Fallout Theory Study - Do Ghouls Hibernate?
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Answer 2
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Bullet
Apparently Bullet confirms that ghouls don't need to eat if you ask him what a ghoul kid is worth.
Answer 3
In the very first Fallout game, it's a major plot point that the ghouls of Necropolis need water in order to survive. If you steal the water chip from Vault 12 without repairing their water pump, they will die of dehydration. As in, they'll be gone if you leave the settlement and return, and the epilogue will point this out to you if you missed it. In Fallout 2, the ghouls of Gecko are seen farming in addition to maintaining the Poseidon Oil power plant, proving once again that they also need to eat.
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