Nutrition points and food parcels

Water lilies, rotting wood, crystals, carcasses and other species-specific sources can become food parcels when collected. The parcel is then universal: any species may carry, eat or store it in a nest. Its earlier origin remains neither a restriction nor a form it can revert to. Mushrooms are suitable for all species even as a natural source. Nectar stays outside this cycle and never becomes food.

Displayed NP are rounded up to whole points. A visible parcel always contains usable food; at zero NP it is spent and disappears. Several slimes can eat from a large natural source at once, visibly and numerically reducing it.