Characters not eating/drinking
 

Food and water in containers as usual.
>Not eating or drinking. No messages about being hungry or thirsty.

Moved food and water to base inventory (not in containers).
>Not eating or drinking. No messages about being hungry or thirsty.

In both cases, mana and health regen are reduced to 0 and stamina begins to decay rapidly.

Please move this to BUG forum.

Additional info
Remove all food and drink
> You and hungry. You are thirsty. Out of food and water.
> Add food and water to container
>>Mana and health regen are 0 and stamina falling.

>Add food and water to main inventory
>>Mana and health regen are 0 and stamina falling.

Hunger strike?

you gota manually click the food/water one time, this happened to me after i died.

try logging or force feeding a few pieces. I've had times where ive run out of mana and didnt have water and wouldnt start regening til i got water and force drank a few then it kicked in.

I have force fed until full.
Once consumed, characters revert to not auto eating.

So what stops them from auto feeding?

You should be able to force feed/drink to a point until you get 'full' messages. Full state does not allow for auto feeding until you get 1 step above hungry/thirsty, and then it should maintain you at that level. All food/drink should currently be the same duration and fill levels.

People would force feed 'statless' food to protect their Hero Sandwich and Misty Thicket Picnics.

The duration of the 'full' state is an unknown however.

Is that what you were asking?

Trying to understand what the problem is.

basically op's problem is they have food and water in inventory but toon isnt eating by itself and is acting as though there is no food or water on toon but doesnt state it.