Dried Meat

[Noctoculus]

Eating dried meat in hard survival is silly. It will completely destroy your thirst, even at full, before it ever fills your hunger. Why.

You need to build a drying rack to get dried food. Drying food takes time. Animals and cannibals can steal the food during this time. That means you need to protect it, either with a base, or some traps. The reward is food that won't spoil in your bag.

This reward comes with the fine print: "Make sure you eat first, otherwise you will have to drink twice as much because I dunno trollolol".

Why.

[tr0mp]

The drying rack is also able to be filled up by Kelvin, then you can do with the food you want and if you forget about it, it first dries and then rotts.

[ConflicT Zv]

Originally posted by tr0mp:

The drying rack is also able to be filled up by Kelvin, then you can do with the food you want and if you forget about it, it first dries and then rotts.

Incorrect, dried food does not rot. I use drying racks to keep food from rotting then transfer the dried meat to shelves. You can cook it even after it's dried so it won't wreck your thirst. Or you can use the dried meat to make stew.

Edit: It's a visual bug. It looks like it's spoiled on the rack but when you pick it up it's dried. Yes, you can cook spoiled meat so this whole point is irrelevant but to try to preserve my immersion I tend to avoid bugs when I can.

[grinsekeatzchen]

Because Hardcore in many Games means, just Ramp Up the Numbers.

Hardcore? Let them have eat 5 horses a day
Hardcore? Just give the Mobs Triple the HP and Double the DMG
Hardcore? Just reduce playerarmor :D

Some People apperently Like this and want even more of this.

[Raffles_Incorporated]

I like to keep a pot and flask of boiled meat in my bag, plus a few pots of boiled water at my camp. Never needed to dry meat cause there's just so many animals around.

[Ataxio]

Originally posted by grinsekeatzchen:

Because Hardcore in many Games means, just Ramp Up the Numbers.

Hardcore? Let them have eat 5 horses a day
Hardcore? Just give the Mobs Triple the HP and Double the DMG
Hardcore? Just reduce playerarmor :D

Some People apperently Like this and want even more of this.

I find that method of difficulty increase to be tedious and annoying. But as a wise sage once said, "people have their preferences"

[Noctoculus]

Originally posted by ConflicT Zv:

Originally posted by tr0mp:

The drying rack is also able to be filled up by Kelvin, then you can do with the food you want and if you forget about it, it first dries and then rotts.

Incorrect, dried food does not rot. I use drying racks to keep food from rotting then transfer the dried meat to shelves. You can cook it even after it's dried so it won't wreck your thirst. Or you can use the dried meat to make stew.

You can cook rotten food anyway, so unless that gets patched at some point... drying food to store it is pointless.

[Legendkiller165]

Originally posted by ConflicT Zv:

Originally posted by tr0mp:

The drying rack is also able to be filled up by Kelvin, then you can do with the food you want and if you forget about it, it first dries and then rotts.

Incorrect, dried food does not rot. I use drying racks to keep food from rotting then transfer the dried meat to shelves. You can cook it even after it's dried so it won't wreck your thirst. Or you can use the dried meat to make stew.

Edit: It's a visual bug. It looks like it's spoiled on the rack but when you pick it up it's dried. Yes, you can cook spoiled meat so this whole point is irrelevant but to try to preserve my immersion I tend to avoid bugs when I can.

Incorrect, the dried meat rots on shelves, I had dried meat stored on shelves and it started rotting

[ConflicT Zv]

Originally posted by Legendkiller165:

Originally posted by ConflicT Zv:

Incorrect, dried food does not rot. I use drying racks to keep food from rotting then transfer the dried meat to shelves. You can cook it even after it's dried so it won't wreck your thirst. Or you can use the dried meat to make stew.

Edit: It's a visual bug. It looks like it's spoiled on the rack but when you pick it up it's dried. Yes, you can cook spoiled meat so this whole point is irrelevant but to try to preserve my immersion I tend to avoid bugs when I can.

Incorrect, the dried meat rots on shelves, I had dried meat stored on shelves and it started rotting

This post was from over 5 months ago. I haven't played much since full release but I'm sure a lot has changed.