Laholder

I got it to trigger by simply holding something in my offhand, exiting the world, and then joining back in. That being said, it didn't occur on my vanilla test, so it's a modded thing. I have many, many mods on this save, so that'll be a matter of investigation for another time.

Thanks for the suggestions, all! I have solved the glitch, and yes, I can confirm it is a glitch now. You all made a great call bringing up the off-hand penalty as, and I never even thought about this, I swapped tongs in the offhand to see if it'd do anything and lo and behold, the 20% went away. Thanks a whole bunch, I saw some pointers towards this same glitch but didn't see anyone mark the solution as "toggle something in your offhand to reset". The 20% penalty didn't revoke itself on restart or anything of the sort. Only by interacting with the offhand. Now, whether or not this particular glitch should be lumped in with Xskills, or added to the issue tracker? I can't say for sure. Either way, thanks once again for the directions

Right to the point; apparently I'm not the only person who's had this, however in older discussions here about this particular bug, people narrowed it down to armor, or having something in offhand, or the weather. The hungerrate for my character went from default 100% to 120% and I only noticed this after making a set of tailored gambeson. Assuming it was the gambeson, I took off my armor to observe the rate went only from 125, to 120. I've spent the last hour or so trying to troubleshoot what could cause the base increase of 20% I looked through any xskills that add hunger, and unless some stat is hidden, none of them should cause this. I don't have anything in my offhand unless I need it. It's the middle of august, with a daily average of 26 degrees, fully clothed, no armor, and I'm running Clockmaker So I'm at a loss. Needless to say, doesn't feel great to have a whole 20% toll tacked onto my 90 hour character because of ??? and ????? If I could at least know why that would be a huge plus. Fixing it is even better, of course.