I really like playing public servers.
However, I really struggle with food when the server is running 24/7. Even if I preserve all my food with jars, fat, a food cellar, my food can still rot if I stay off the game for half a week, which with school and all is very common. IME this discourages me since I can spend a lot of time gathering and preserving my goods but ultimately leave the server for a day or two and come back to rot.
AFAIK there's no way to make it so a player's stored food doesn't rot to inedible goop while they're offline. It would make supplies management easier IMO.
I know there's an option to make it so the server pauses operation if there's no players on it but the servers I like typically always have a few so that's not possible.
Maybe this is a suggestion? If anyone knows if there's a mod that does this that'd be great. PS sorry for the repost, this was originally in the wrong subcategory.