Ruffles_RainWorld from YouTube here! Instead of using a lot of food to control a creature and it being advantageous to NOT control a creature and just be a normal slugcat. It doesn't feel right to me that the main mechanic of this slug cat can be avoided by simply not dying. I feel like the whole game-play loop and difficulty of this slugcat should be TRYING to get eaten by creatures at the right time.

It does this in order to take over a creatures body to take food from them as you control and eat another creature so you can jump out like a chest burster with a full belly and hibernate in a nearby shelter.

Making the slugcat require more food pips or not get as many from eating creatures or fruit can balance this and make the risk/reward of controlling multiple different creatures in a single cycle interesting.

In this case players would have to think about when and where they want to get eaten and control a creature so they can make sure they get their next meal before a rain storm (Instead of it being just an optional borderlands second wind kind of deal that can be avoided)

Maybe also restricting spear use/making spears much weaker and making it so controlling different creatures gives you more or less food pips depending on the type controlled or eaten while controlling another.

I was planning a YouTube video featuring your mod and had these ideas pop into my head while recording.
It's your mod so you don't have to do any of this if you don't want or if its a bad idea of course. I love your mod the way it is already and it's super cool :D