What do the symbols on the Fatigue gauge mean?

In The Long Dark, pressing F (on PC) brings up the status page:

This includes the Fatigue gauge:

Sometimes there's a yellow exclamation mark on top of it, and sometimes part of the meter is red - what do these indicate?

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Best Answer

It seems the exclamation mark appears if you have been starving for a long amount of time. It means your stamina will drop faster than normal.

The red part of the meter represents a reduced maximum, it has the same cause but appears later and slowly grows.

Eating doesn't immediately fix this. Eating and then sleeping cures it.

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