Even though crafting, hunting, grilling stuff is absolute fun for me, its use in the current form is pretty much zero...

Like I said above my mate should shoot me in the chest once and I was dead. After returning he shot me in the leg with a pistol and everything was pretty much black and white. So I ate cooked meat in order to check if it would give me some blood, like in the mod or like a saline bag. But neither it gave me saturation back to my screen, nor it was really nutritious! I just freshly got the yellow hungry status message, a minute ago it was "neutral". Then I ate 6x60% cooked meat in order to get the bright green "energized". I could have achieved this by eating one lousy uncooked raw rice! So all the hunting and cooking seem to be not worth the effort in the current state.

I love the fact that cooking/grilling really requires some tools, space in the inventory, time, timing and monitoring. But that this whole effort isnt pretty much rewarded at all is pretty poor and inconsistent in my opinion. My hopes therefore are that meat at least makes you energized very quickly, but another thing I hope for is that it gives you some amount of blood/health, so that if you really put some time into hunting and cooking you could save one or another saline bag.

Another suggestion to support hunting would be to massively reduce the amount of regular food and also possibly reduce its nutritive value. So that if you spawn as a fresh spawn, you wouldnt just think about where you could find your first meal, but also where you could find tools to hunt and cook to really get energized without searching for cans for hours. THAT is survival to me! And because it really takes some time to get hungry again after being bright-green energized, it wouldnt be too present all the time or gets in the way of your other plans. But some times it would become simply necessary and maybe it would get exciting if you dont manage to find a deer for some time! I get a chickenskin if I think of that. (Just google "Gänsehaut" to get that german phrase).