food in winter?

[00yiggdrasill00]

whats a couple of good methods to gather food in winter? so far ive struggled just trying to stockpile food and need a way to add a bit more to survive winter.

[bug siins]

get some boomerangs and kill rabbits
or pigs, beefalo etc

[ECS]

The easiest method to get food in Winter is going after meat.
Spiders are easy to farm, and a great source of Monster Meat, which can be used in meat recipes. Pigs can also make for a nice source of big meat. Hunting for Koalafants when you see a track is also a good way, as killing one can keep you fed for a good while. Beefalos, similarly to koalafants, offer quite a lot of meat (keep in mind they might be in heat). You could also try killing some of the pengulls (but try to single them out before attacking, as these dudes are wild!)
If you aren't much in for fighting, using traps to catch Rabbits or Spiders is a nice alternative, or using a Bird Trap to catch birds.

As for non-meat ingredients.
Ice is abundant in Winter, it spawns with pengulls, you can use ice as a great filler for pretty much any recipe. Cacti grow normally during Winter.
Also worth noting, while stuff like Berry Bushes and Farms don't grow food in Winter, any food previously ready to harvest in them will remain there, so these can be used as a method to stockpile food that you can harvest at any time during Winter.

[Ozzey_Lee]

Learn to kite rabbits. It gives you extremely easy access to meat every season but spring.

Kill hounds or spiders for the rest of your meat. Eat it cooked along with blue mushrooms to manage your health everynow and then or just make healing salves.

Killing the monsters is the easiest to sustain, but knowing how to force food from anywhere helps a ton.

[Katitoff]

Monster mean from spooders and 3 ice in crock pot.

[Necrius]

Koalefants have been a good investment of my time and effort, giving both meat and material for warm clothing.

[The Nostalgia Critic]

Putting it simple, go for koalafants, I guess. Collect lots of ice and cactus flesh to mix with the meat in the crock pot.

[Wheastonian]

3 ice 1 monster meat, or a fridge.

[Blue Candle]

Tall bird eggs never spoil.

[procamcctv]

get meatballs. u can dry some extra meat also,or just cook meat soup.

[procamcctv]

And u can choose to get a bird and put in birdcage to change COOKED meat to eggs. Or simply steal pengull's eggs lol

[yung lean]

the easiest way is too find a spider nest and mine ice, combine 3 ice and the monster meat from the spiders in a crock pot and you have meatballs

[Nitaire]

Hunt for koalefant or just use ice and monster meat for meatballs (3/1 ratio). Fastest way is wait until night time and pick your berry farm you should've set up before winter.. doing this in daytime is just asking for a gobbler so that's why you wait until night or at least dusk.

[ECS]

Originally posted by Nitaire:

doing this in daytime is just asking for a gobbler so that's why you wait until night or at least dusk.

Or you put a berry on the ground and put fences around it, then all the Gobblers will try to eat it and you're free to kill them, which gives you even more food.

[dynatierchen]

1 monster meat 3 pieces of ice might be the easiest

catch rabbits with trap
kill pigs

[JPM岩]

If you can get to Lunar Island, Rockfruit is ridiculously OP, as long as you have a big supply of rot or poop; it gives you tons of easy to get fruit that grows in winter
If youve gone cavewards, Bunnyman farms are good, but farming them is really tricky