Food / Anvil+Furnace / Pickaxe newb questions...

[Hardsun]

Im pretty new to the game and could not find info on following:
1) when you eat raw meat it says that it would taste better salted or smoked, does that mean there is a way to salt or smoke meats ? (dropping meat in salt water did not do anything, droping on campfire i managed to burn my meat bright lol)
- i see different types of food have different text color, does it mean anything (licke qudzu stem is red, some foods got white text names, some brownish and i think i saw purple once... same with corpses text names btw)?

2) Sometimes i find anvil + furnace(looks like burning star) in depth ususally with several bronze ingots around. The anvil weight is 2500 so no chance to move it and furnace cant be interacted at all. Ive tryed to drop bronze weapons on furnace to see if it would smelt in ingots but not ... so is there any use of those or is it just flawor objects ?

3) If you explore underground surroundings connected to Red Rock you usually manage to find pickaxe and miners helmet - i suppose you need to have pickaxe equiped to autoattack walls and big stones. But i cant find what is the difference since i can force attack objects with any weapons holding Ctrl+movement ?
And some strange parchment looking like dead miner's log - something about he could not find Jasper (gem or man with such name?).

[57E]

1 Just literal flawor text.
2 No use, just props.
3 You don't need the pick axe to damage walls (just high strength and a weapon with a good penetration score), but unless you have burrowing claws -mutation, it's way better at digging than any of the weapons.

[Hardsun]

Originally posted by 57E:

1 Just literal flawor text.
2 No use, just props.
3 You don't need the pick axe to damage walls (just high strength and a weapon with a good penetration score), but unless you have burrowing claws -mutation, it's way better at digging than any of the weapons.

Thanks! ... but they could play around such things heh. Still confused about food.

So it seems like pickaxe has a good bonus penetration vs walls and stones ? Im a True Kin so no mutations. Purge em all :D

[amimai002]

my 6 armed supermutant dosent need no pickaxes, hulk smash!!!

[57E]

Different food items have different nutritional values. Only easy way to check this in game is to see how much water they cost on merchants.

More costy food is usually better than cheap food. Vinewafers are exception as they weight nothing and that is a big advantage.
I don't think name text color has any purpose other than aesthetic.

[Hardsun]

Well i dont think qudzu steam or lover's blossom are more nutritional than crab meat.
But it costs more and its red colored - probably a rare ingridient with some specials (like honey or yuckwheat stem can help preventing some diseases) ?
The problem is game does not give much of clear info - its either abstract like yuckwheat description or hidden in books. Or players are supposed to make tests to figure out ...

[davidb11]

Qudzu stem and Lover's blossom are both used for certain tonics, and that's why they're worth a lot of money to sell at merchants.

[Hardsun]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Qudzu stem and Lover's blossom are both used for certain tonics, and that's why they're worth a lot of money to sell at merchants.

Nice to know - i thought only "Bits" being used for craft.

[davidb11]

Yeah. Pretty much every tonic needs a special ingredient.

[Hardsun]

Now top skills in Harvesting and Butchery (ability to collect special items) start to make sence to me :)