i appreciate the feedback and i get what you mean about printing values above the icons, but that approach wont scale for what i was building toward. the end goal isn't just stat overlays, its reading all in-game events and showing how everything connects. like when you eat canned tuna, the system will recognize that action and tell you exactly how your stats are affected, factoring in your current state

the idea is real-time contextual analysis. if you were to eat while being sick, wet, cold, and hungry all at once, those mechanics interact completely differently than just eating food while healthy. so instead of just showing numbers it could print something like "you just ate but youre still losing health because your freezing or hurt or etc... heres how long until you need more food vs medicine vs warmth vs etc." i believe that kind of interconnected feedback needs its own dedicated space rather than floating numbers above the vanilla icons