Running out of food ?

[Dreadknott]

Amost out of space food where do you get more have looted the chests 4 of them scattered around where do you find more ?

[wmled1]

grow your own beans

[killerskull]

This is my starting issue with the game. Im rushing to unlock farms because of this. O2 and water is easy to find and craft. Food you can only find as loot.

[TJ136]

A food grower will help. If you have seeds you can grow and not depend on any space food.

[jshepler]

I see this as an issue early game. Some people want to mess around with building and stuff and so don't go exploring/looting early enough to get food. We've seen a number of people complaining about running out of food before they even find seeds, let alone unlocking the t1 food grower.

I think the starting chest should include a single food seed and the food grower unlocked a little sooner. It might be wasted for people who go exploring/looting early and get a bunch of space food, but for those that want to mess around building a base before exploring, they need something to help get them by.

[Darth Catalyst]

I was worried about the same thing, but if you explore and find some wrecks, food packets will come with them. I had several extra and then unlocked the food grower, prioritize those and then you have self sustaining food. I built 5 and it's more than enough, for now.

[Kryzzk]

you can find food in the crashed ships, I make small bases that let me refill my o2 along the path to the ships and then loot them. I am playing on "Standard" and I have found enough food in the ships to last awhile other difficulty levels might give different amounts of food in the ships, but that is still where I would look.

[Labradog]

I think I would have survived my first game if food growers didn't require aluminum. I wasted too much time at the start. I subsequently ran out of space food. I used my last aluminum to get one grower up and it managed to finish growing an eggplant just as my food level went critical. I was dismayed to find that the eggplant only restored 25 food level. So I'm basically going to starve to death and need to restart. : \

[Darke]

Originally posted by Albedo:

I think I would have survived my first game if food growers didn't require aluminum. I wasted too much time at the start. I subsequently ran out of space food. I used my last aluminum to get one grower up and it managed to finish growing an eggplant just as my food level went critical. I was dismayed to find that the eggplant only restored 25 food level. So I'm basically going to starve to death and need to restart. : \

If you die, unless you're playing on a harder difficulty level you revive with 25% food or so. It's more annoying than anything. :/

[Shawn]

i honestly don't know how so many people are having trouble with food within the first 10 minutes of the game i managed to get a full chest of space food... just from the first 8 starting chests... if you go into the wrecks you so much food... what are all you guys doing trying to build a big base right off the bat without looting? default spawn as you pointed a gaint ship wreck for a reason, loot it

once you have food grower plant beans it gives 60% by the time you down 50/60% they have already regrown plant 2 if you want but you really don't need to

if they make o2 water and food any easier they might aswell just remove the whole system IMHO


But if you really in a pinch and don't mind cheesing it just save and reload food/water back to 100% o2 25% or if not on hardcore just die you drop a few items that you can re pick up anyways theres no real death plenty

[Labradog]

Originally posted by Shawn:

i honestly don't know how so many people are having trouble with food within the first 10 minutes of the game i managed to get a full chest of space food... just from the first 8 starting chests... if you go into the wrecks you so much food... what are all you guys doing trying to build a big base right off the bat without looting? default spawn as you pointed a gaint ship wreck for a reason, loot it

once you have food grower plant beans it gives 60% by the time you down 50/60% they have already regrown plant 2 if you want but you really don't need to

if they make o2 water and food any easier they might aswell just remove the whole system IMHO


But if you really in a pinch and don't mind cheesing it just save and reload food/water back to 100% o2 25% or if not on hardcore just die you drop a few items that you can re pick up anyways theres no real death plenty

Because I'm playing this game for the very first time and I know nothing about it. Telling me "just plant beans in a food grower" when I only just unlocked the food grower recipe and have only found squash seeds is not helpful information.

Not everybody is a veteran like you who can master games in the first ten minutes.

[Deadly Peanut]

early game, if you don't mind exploits, you can get around needing food until you unlock the food grower... when you save/quit and then immediately load your save, your water/food top out at 100%. you can save with your food/water at very low levels, and the game tops you out to 100% when you reload.

i rarely use this exploit because generally there is plenty of space food to get by until you unlock the food grower if you start cranking out O2 immediately, but the exploit works if you need it.

[Labradog]

Originally posted by Deadly Peanut:

early game, if you don't mind exploits, you can get around needing food until you unlock the food grower... when you save/quit and then immediately load your save, your water/food top out at 100%. you can save with your food/water at very low levels, and the game tops you out to 100% when you reload.

i rarely use this exploit because generally there is plenty of space food to get by until you unlock the food grower if you start cranking out O2 immediately, but the exploit works if you need it.

Yeah, seems like a bug to me. I don't like it being there, myself. I did find more food, btw. The issue, I think, isn't there not being enough food scattered but more a case of first-time players not being able to locate it quickly enough. Food and especially thirst drain pretty fast.

[Shawn]

Originally posted by Albedo:

Not everybody is a veteran like you who can master games in the first ten minutes.

i'm not a veteran just use some common sense "barren wasteland?" better go looting for food and work on a way to get more... same as it is in every survival game first things you should work on is food/water base building is secondary

Edit: though the dev should add a note to the "to-do" list the puts up saying something along the lines of "search for food in nearby wrecks" (assuming it doesn't say something like that already)

[Tactical Democracy]

Originally posted by Albedo:

Originally posted by Shawn:

i honestly don't know how so many people are having trouble with food within the first 10 minutes of the game i managed to get a full chest of space food... just from the first 8 starting chests... if you go into the wrecks you so much food... what are all you guys doing trying to build a big base right off the bat without looting? default spawn as you pointed a gaint ship wreck for a reason, loot it

once you have food grower plant beans it gives 60% by the time you down 50/60% they have already regrown plant 2 if you want but you really don't need to

if they make o2 water and food any easier they might aswell just remove the whole system IMHO


But if you really in a pinch and don't mind cheesing it just save and reload food/water back to 100% o2 25% or if not on hardcore just die you drop a few items that you can re pick up anyways theres no real death plenty

Because I'm playing this game for the very first time and I know nothing about it. Telling me "just plant beans in a food grower" when I only just unlocked the food grower recipe and have only found squash seeds is not helpful information.

Not everybody is a veteran like you who can master games in the first ten minutes.

Pro social tip: Instead of giving mad at someone for giving you answers you don't understand, search on your own to find more information about the answers, and/or ask clarifying questions

[Thunder Muffin]

i have too much food, i haven't ran out of the packs of food that you find and im growing my own and im eating like a king.