Food/drink
 

Food and drink always used to be consumed from top-level inventory slots before being taken out of backpacks. I have a backpack with food/drink in slot 1 and it's always consumed from here before pulling it out of any free top-level inventory slots that any food I forage may have been dumped in. Nothing to do with the patch today, it's been like this forever.

So you're saying food/drink OUTSIDE of a bag are skipped?

The way I remember it is

1 5
2 6
3 7
4 8

The game would check if you had any food or drink in slot 1, if there wasn't, it would check if the backpack in slot 1 had any food or drink in it starting from the backpack's slots which were identical to the general inventory slot order. It had nothing to do with the fact that it was inside a bag or not.

Same for me, slave.

Strange that the spaces inside of backpacks are (I think):

1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8

though.

Lol.

Ahh yes that is how they fill up, you're right. I wonder if that means that we're incorrect about how food and items get eaten inside backpacks, too. I do believe that here, that's exactly what happens:

1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8

Was this the behavior on Live? That's very hard to recall.

I recall this order on Live, within bags. Should be the same rule that dictates Arrow, Dagger, Bandage consumption.