Best fish for food?

[M4X1L]

I find the regular big eyed fish is the best for immediate eating. whats the best to salt? do they always take your water away?

[SealieP]

Reginalds are the best. You can store them in lockers live and then only cook the when you want to eat them. And cure them only if you are going on an expedition without a fabrictor around. Curing will remove water from them. Take big bottles of water, the ones made with bleach or the water filtration ones.

The best foods however are marblemelons and chinese potatoes. Lantern fruit are nice but very little nutrients. Bulbo trees have good water.

[M4X1L]

They arent very easy to catch, wow. I managed to get a few and yeah theyre a bit better than the peepers.

[SealieP]

If you have a base, then you can put them in an alien containment module. Put in two and they will breed for you. And they're super easy to catch in there. But you need to have the blueprints for the multipurpose room and alien containment first.

[Blergh]

Marblemelons make for a great meal, but the extra hassle to keep a crop of them going is not worth the hassle for me, IMO. Chinese Potatos are fine, though.

[SealieP]

Originally posted by Blergh:

Marblemelons make for a great meal, but the extra hassle to keep a crop of them going is not worth the hassle for me, IMO. Chinese Potatos are fine, though.

I fill an interior grow bed with marblemelons, eat three at a time knife the fourth and replant it. If I get lazy or am on the verge of dehydration and starving I have more there availble. I also have plant pots of potatoes, and both trees. I like to level it off as best as I can. I also have a three tier alien containment with reginalds and bladder fish that I never use... but you never know.

[garbagefire]

Just set up an indoor garden bed and plant a latern tree, marble melon, Chinese potatos, and bulbo tree in base and sub. Using the AC to breed reginalds and curing them gives you loads of food. Cured fish won't rot, but they do always make you thirsty. Build water filtration and you'll be set. And the coffee maker, of course. You won't get sick and you'll never have to chase fish again.

[Gatuno]

Originally posted by SealieP:

Originally posted by Blergh:

Marblemelons make for a great meal, but the extra hassle to keep a crop of them going is not worth the hassle for me, IMO. Chinese Potatos are fine, though.

I fill an interior grow bed with marblemelons, eat three at a time knife the fourth and replant it. If I get lazy or am on the verge of dehydration and starving I have more there availble. I also have plant pots of potatoes, and both trees. I like to level it off as best as I can. I also have a three tier alien containment with reginalds and bladder fish that I never use... but you never know.

Yea, my base is pretty OP now, I have loads of solar panels, 5 thermal plants powering my base, 2 nuclear reactors, 2 bioreactors (I might remove those tho) I have creepvines, blood, deep mushroom and gel sacks farms, I have potato and melons farms too. I have almost everything in my base. The only reason to move from my base is to gather minerals.

[SealieP]

Originally posted by TheLegend27:

Originally posted by SealieP:

I fill an interior grow bed with marblemelons, eat three at a time knife the fourth and replant it. If I get lazy or am on the verge of dehydration and starving I have more there availble. I also have plant pots of potatoes, and both trees. I like to level it off as best as I can. I also have a three tier alien containment with reginalds and bladder fish that I never use... but you never know.

Yea, my base is pretty OP now, I have loads of solar panels, 5 thermal plants powering my base, 2 nuclear reactors, 2 bioreactors (I might remove those tho) I have creepvines, blood, deep mushroom and gel sacks farms, I have potato and melons farms too. I have almost everything in my base. The only reason to move from my base is to gather minerals.

Other than being seriously over-powered, that's pretty standard. But do you have a lounge, lab room, and bedroom all in separate MPRs? And do you breed fish to release outside your base so you're surrounded by your favorite fauna? Must haves. :)

[Bort]

Originally posted by TheLegend27:

Yea, my base is pretty OP now, I have loads of solar panels, 5 thermal plants powering my base, 2 nuclear reactors, 2 bioreactors (I might remove those tho) I have creepvines, blood, deep mushroom and gel sacks farms, I have potato and melons farms too. I have almost everything in my base. The only reason to move from my base is to gather minerals.

And what about aquariums to contain specimens of each and every type of fish encountered? Maybe this could go in the lab?

[SealieP]

Originally posted by Bort:

Originally posted by TheLegend27:

Yea, my base is pretty OP now, I have loads of solar panels, 5 thermal plants powering my base, 2 nuclear reactors, 2 bioreactors (I might remove those tho) I have creepvines, blood, deep mushroom and gel sacks farms, I have potato and melons farms too. I have almost everything in my base. The only reason to move from my base is to gather minerals.

And what about aquariums to contain specimens of each and every type of fish encountered? Maybe this could go in the lab?

I spread the around the base for scenary. My favorites go in the bedroom. The oddest ones in the lab. The rest in the lounge. I normally make it after I collect the two from the ILZ though. Sometimes I have trouble getting those if the warpers are in full patrol.

[Fushiggy]

Originally posted by SealieP:

Reginalds are the best. You can store them in lockers live and then only cook the when you want to eat them. And cure them only if you are going on an expedition without a fabrictor around. Curing will remove water from them. Take big bottles of water, the ones made with bleach or the water filtration ones.

The best foods however are marblemelons and chinese potatoes. Lantern fruit are nice but very little nutrients. Bulbo trees have good water.

What's a good spot to find Reginalds? I've played the game for six hours, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that I've only found ONE Reginald out of all that time, It was next to one Reefback.

[Fushiggy]

Originally posted by Penis Inspection Day:

I find the regular big eyed fish is the best for immediate eating. whats the best to salt? do they always take your water away?

Reginalds are hard to find, or so I've heard from SealieP. I usually just catch Peepers with my sea glide, they're extremely easy to find and when you cook them, just 4 of those little guys can replenish your whole hunger bar!

[LadstonFelisGaming]

The top 3 edible fish as far as pure food value goes are Reginalds, Peepers, and Oculuses (Oculi?). These fish give 44, 32, and 30 food points respectively.

[SealieP]

Originally posted by Shim:

What's a good spot to find Reginalds? I've played the game for six hours, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that I've only found ONE Reginald out of all that time, It was next to one Reefback.

You can find them in the grassy plateau area (biome with the red grasses), mountain biome, grand reef, and sparse reef. They are hard to find, but they are there. As soon as I see one I go after it and keep it and when I find the second I grab that too. If I don't have the alien containment then I just keep them in a locker until I have alien containment and then let them breed to get the numbers. I've generally always found one by the beaches area in the mountain biome and then one by lifepod and wreck in the more southern grassy plateau area where it's near a mushroom cave opening. But that may have just been pure luck that my games have been like that.

[Rabcor]

It's not hard to catch them, just put a grav trap in a grassy plateau area, go do stuff and come back. For effortless food in a base tho, you just need to plant a lantern tree or two, it only gives food 10 but each tree has a lot of fruit and the rest doubles as biofuel (325 energy per fruit!) potato is potentially better at 12 food but you have to remember to replant it.

However if you're not in your base... Thermal knife is the way to go, cook whatever you can find while exploring with just 1 slash, no fabricator nonsense.

If you wanna be bringing snacks with you, smarrtest ways to do it are grav trap or alien containment, and targets should ofc be the reginald.