Workshop Ration

s are automatically given to compensate food/water while you're inside of a settlement, which allows you to spend as much time as you want to build freely without feeling like your survival supplies are wasting away
 * This system can be disabled in the Global Options Menu if you wish
 * As time passes, you build up "ration points" which will automatically give you a "Workshop Ration" every few game hours as long as you have at least 1 food and 1 water production in that settlement
 * Workshop Rations give you both food and water, which is most (but not all) of the hunger/thirst you lost
 * When you first enter a settlement, it takes up to a half of a game hour to kick in
 * When you exit a settlement, after a short amount of time it will stop counting ration points
 * There's a small grace period where if you step out of a settlement, you have some time to get back inside before it resets your timer to the longer duration
 * Your ration points are stored permanently until it uses them, so it will resume the next time you enter a settlement again
 * Your ration points are displayed in the Global Options Menu

NOTE: A is given every 5 hours (in-game) or 3 minutes (real-time).

Future
In the future, this system might be changed to automatically feed you the ration, but for now its better to visually see the food in your inventory to make sure its working well.