Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Okay, ignore that part.

I forgot I'm using a mod that fills much of the available space inside my boat with graphical renditions of sausages and loaves of bread.

The food gradually disappears while I'm on patrol, and starting a new one fills the boat up again. I've gotten so used to it that I forgot it's just eye candy. So no, you can't run out of food and die, my bad.




The game is actually very generous in this respect - if you dock at a resupply ship, you get another full loadout of eels. It works this way IIRC because the resupply vessels had to be modded in like additional bases, and there was no way to distinguish between them and an actual base in this respect by setting up an alternate loadout scheme just for them. So you get the same full loadoat there that you would at home.

In RL this didn't happen - resupply ships didn't have enough spare eels on hand to fully re-arm every u-boat that came calling. One or two was probably all they could provide.