Firstly, forgive me if the wording in my title is confusing. What I mean by "hunger rates" is the passive decay rate of a citizen's hunger stat. In most of my modpacks, I've included a food mod that allows me to increase the player's passive hunger decay rate, so that I would have to eat 2 or 3 meals per day in the game to keep my hunger bar full. It would be nice if I could do the same for the citizens in my colony. I would enjoy making the mod harder, especially in the early game, by increasing the demand for food.

Is this something that would be feasible to implement, and would the dev team find it a worthwhile endeavor?

Cool, is it something the dev team would find a worthwhile endeavor, or should I make a pull request? I only have a little experience creating mods for Minecraft, and the little experience I do have comes from 1.7.10, but if you guys have your plate full, I could try my hand at it.

solved in #3631