Where to get food ?

[karmazyn1]

I have just started and am running low on yummy food.
1. Can you pick apples up in a forest?
2. Where to get food and repair tools from?
3. I have wheat but game says that I need to cook it. How do I cook food?

Thanks bros.

[Lightning]

1. Fastest way to get the best food right away is to steal as often as you can without getting caught imo, and buy the cheaper food from the vendors at the time and stock pile atleast 5+ days worth of food at a time. Yes you can go around the map looting glowy food mostly mushrooms though which I have found to be the most common.

2. The Market square and traveling merchants for food / Blacksmith for repair kits or salvage unwanted gear if you have enough money to pay wages.

3. Learn the cooking pot through the learning system once you have enough points for it then assign a cook it will give constitution at first then another stat i forgot after awhile once they level up.

[Tenshin51]

Gathering food is limited with fishing and hunting.
Check your camp there a table item call Workshop put a unit in that item. I suggest a ranger or archer unit to boast their stats. Each rest while your merc operating that gear you will receive crafting mats which repair your gear.

Personally in early game it is far better to use town blacksmith due it's cheaper. If you are planning to do beastmaster or animal party repairing armor you barely need it.

Cooking your food you need to craft Cooking Pot gear from your workshop. You need a lot of salt then another ingredient like wheat to make bread. If you unlock some recipe from knowledge you will unlock more.

If you are planning to unlock food knowledge in your game. I suggest just unlock some recipe that you can buy in the market. Hunting and fishing is not worth it. You can also buy some food recipe with the merchant. Personally best food recipe in the game I found so far is Cabbage Perch you can steal that recipe on a tracker camp near Tiltren.

All the ingredients of Cabbage Perch can be found in market.

[robtock216]

i just buy food from the markets and what i can hunt while out, if you capture a bear they also get a skill later on where they randomly catch fish for you when by water

you really want to get someone levelling cooking, the recipes for full meals are a lot more economical for feeding a large party later on, my daily food consumption is about 100 now so full meals are very important.

you can get a drying rack later on which can process an animal carcass into 4 dried meat per day, in my opinion its far too slow, you should be able to build multiples or it should handle much higher volume as i currently have like 100 carcasses waiting to be processed at 1 per night

[Lightning]

Yeah not only do full meals give a better food ratio they also have nice buffs