Food/Water needs for Large creatures/characters and mounts

Medium humanoids require a gallon of water per day to avoid dehydration, and a pound of food to avoid starvation, as noted in the DMG and SRD. A waterskin holds 1/2 gallon, as it weighs 4 pounds when full (it's also what the 3.0 PHB lists as its capacity). So 2 waterskins will contain enough

None of this is really exactly answered in the rules, at least not that I'm aware of.

Medium humanoids require a gallon of water per day to avoid dehydration, and a pound of food to avoid starvation, as noted in the DMG and SRD. A waterskin holds 1/2 gallon, as it weighs 4 pounds when full (it's also what the 3.0 PHB lists as its capacity). So 2 waterskins will contain enough water for 1 day for a humanoid of the appropriate size category.

Saddlebags weigh 8 pounds, empty. A pack saddle weighs 15 and holds as much as the animal can normally carry (it's heavy load capacity), so it can be assumed that saddlebags will hold about half that much. Saddlebags can hold up to 5 cubic feet in volume (according to the 3.0 PHB; not sure if this is in the 3.5 PHB, but it's not in the 3.5 SRD).

From the Create Water spell: "Note: Conjuration spells can’t create substances or objects within a creature. Water weighs about 8 pounds per gallon. One cubic foot of water contains roughly 8 gallons and weighs about 60 pounds."

The Create Food & Water spell can sustain one horse for every three humans it could otherwise sustain, so it can probably be assumed that a Large creature requires three times as much food and water as a Medium creature.

Large creatures have twice the carrying capacities of Medium creatures, though, so they might just need twice as much food and drink as Medium creatures. It's not clear. I'm still not sure why the heck 1 day's worth of horse feed is 10 pounds, though. Do horses really need to eat 10 pounds of oats per day? Seriously? From the description, I'm guessing it's meant to represent enough feed to nourish and energize them for a day of hard riding, not light activity.

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