Can't cook food, boil water or melt snow with a fire

[Prapor]

Can someone help me please? i'm trying to melt snow so i can make water and i want to cook food. I'll probably end up dying a million times if this keeps continuing...

[Prapor]

The icons don't show up at the top, that's why i can't do stuff btw

[IFIYGD]

You need to have a recycled can or cooking pot, place it on the stove, fireplace hearth or stone by a campfire. Then when you click on the cooking container, the cooking UI will open up, your list of options will be to the left on the screen.

We no longer have magical cooking, you must have a can or a pot. They added a can to everyone's inventory with the update. Hopefully, you did not throw it away.

If you have fish or meat, you can place it directly on top of a stove, or on one of the 2 cooking stones on the side of a campfire, or on a cooking slot in a fireplace. Other than that, you need the container(s).

Take your time, slow down, don't panic, and explore your game, menus, UI's, inventory screens, and such. There are a number of changes that you need to learn. And rushing won't help you learn them.

[iwasa]

Keeping the recycled can is vital, so far. I have searched Coastal Highway houses and cabins and not found any pots or pans, even in place where I know I saw them before the update. They are just gone. If I knew that would be the result, I might have taken a hacksaw to them so at least I'd have gotten some scrap metal out of them.

It took me awhile to work out just how to use a campfire and how to use the recycled can (to make water).

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by iwasa:

Keeping the recycled can is vital, so far. I have searched Coastal Highway houses and cabins and not found any pots or pans, even in place where I know I saw them before the update. They are just gone. If I knew that would be the result, I might have taken a hacksaw to them so at least I'd have gotten some scrap metal out of them.

It took me awhile to work out just how to use a campfire and how to use the recycled can (to make water).

Have you looked on the ground, beside piles of debris? There may be one or more tucked into those piles. Have you verified files to make sure nothing got borked during the update download or install? I can't believe in a Pilgrim run that you are finding none. It sounds bugged.

[Prapor]

thanks!

[iwasa]

This occurred in my newest keeper Pilgrim. I have a couple of longer Pilgrim that I have not yet gone to. Working out how to figure out New Cooking.

I was only looking for pots and pans where they should have been on the assumption that they would have been changed, at least some of them, to be useful in this.

Thanks, I'll look. Sometimes someone needs to poke someone and remind them that people used to just toss cans into trash heaps. :)

So I can assume you still saw pots and pans and such in kitchens? I'd hate to think that I'd have to throw away a sandbox or have to (yet again) start another sandbox just to get access to pots and pans. One of my sandboxes was started because the previous one never had an aurora appear and I wanted to see it. I still have both.

Everything else, so far, seems to be okay.

ETA: I have verified the game files. I have gone upslope from Townsite and checked places I generally would not expect to see pots and pans (because there is no stove or fire barrel), even the mine link though I did not go the full length and nothing. I did eat a condensed milk and did "harvest" a recycled can so that works, but as far as any area drops of a pot or pan or can I have found nothing. I am kind of amazed at how clean the Canadians have kept their roads. No trash, no cans, etc.

Since I can accumulate cans so water making is not so restricted, I guess I can soon start my foray into Pleasant Valley and check out the Crossroads to see what I find there.

[IFIYGD]

So farin my new Voyageur run, yeah. Pots and some more rare cans in kitchens, but yeah, also, many no longer there. They are not as overly abundant as they were when they were only static decals.

I have not found any in the gas stoves, fridges, or cupboards. But on stoves, in sinks, on the floor, or in piles of crates/boxes and debris, one with something stuffed inside it. But in only 1 day in Milton, only looting the Bank, Milton House, and 2 houses that were open to loot (most were boarded up near Milton House), I had 4 cooking pots and 3 cans, 1 can of Peaches in there for 1 can.

But my loot table seems odd, I have also found 2 rifles, 2 full boxes of shells, and 3 mag lenses in the same buildings. RNJesus has nasty plans for me, I know it. I expect to go back in to find 3 or more wolves camped right outside my door. Since they must know both riles ar 35% or below, and I have no cleaning kit to bring them up. I expect jams, only jams. :O

[hinterland_tech_help]

Thanks everyone for your posts!

Since this thread is more of a how-to-play question and not about a bug, we're going to move it over to General Discussions to help keep the forums organized and give your responses better visibility.