The files contain a disabled food system with debuffs and three modes

Nexus user claramercury found a disabled food-consequence system in the Crimson Desert files. About 50 skills in 15 categories, from plain regeneration to attack speed. Cold food raises fire resistance, hot food raises cold resistance. The skills could have grown with the character.

Three difficulty levels sit beside that: a safe Adventure and a hard Iron Gut, where food can apply serious debuffs. In the released game the system is not active.

Whether Pearl Abyss will return to it is unknown. One reading is that it was switched off because there were already too many systems.