Cannot eat enough

[Techbane #FreeHK]

Okay I'm a little late to the party but I have the general idea of things now, I've wrangled the interface, set up my tent, hitched a horse, started to flatten land (it's a royal nightmare trying to establish a mine but that's something for another time) -- and I've even figured out the cooking system. I'm making enormous casseroles out of cow meat, chicken meat, pumpkins, barley, wheat, berries, mint, thyme, etc. and yet something that weighs in at 2 kg+, with every food type included, eaten hot, fills my hunger bar by about 2 points and doesn't move any nutrition categories at all. Not to mention this is with the first-day need-less-food buff. Is this normal? Am I bugged? Am I Kirby??

[axeblade346]

This is 100% normal. Filling up the CCFP bars is about a balance in the food, enough of each type in the food, type of food (Pizza and Pie's are better) and quality of the food.
A Good idea in the start is to make a knife (NOT craving or butchering) and use it on the food items to chop / mince them as this ups your cooking skills and gives better CCFP.

I can reccomend you make Kielbasa for the start as its decent CCFP.
Minced Meat + chopped garlic + fat in a sausage skin. You can add a seasoning too.
Sausage skins are knife on a bladder.

Good Wurm cookbook - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LMTxeUbsoQfucPcextHj7fNEYFXcmWU7wyrzB_UTDug/edit#gid=0

[Nettlesprout]

*Hunger bar* is different than the CCFP bars.

(CCFP stands for calories carbs fats and proteins. Each of those has a different impact on gameplay, and yes a balanced CCFP is best once you get out of "beginner range".)

If your HOT FOOD COOKING skill is still low, and you are playing semi self sufficient, I would *NOT* focus on CCFP or multi ingredient meals just yet, but instead work at getting your hot food cooking up to 10 or 15 or so.

The easiest way to do this at start is by 1 or 2 ingredient casseroles or Breakfasts. The breakfast recipe must be "discovered" but an easy way to learn it is putting one meat or vegetable (potato pumpkin etc) in a pottery bowl, in either a campfire or oven (not forge). If you are still scrounging for food ingredients, mushrooms or berries in a bowl with either a meat or vegetable will make a casserole. Resist the temptation to stuff as many ingredients as possible in one bowl! Many small casseroles will help you more than one big one, because you will not get SKILL from the big one and you need skill to get higher quality food. Use right-click LORE to right click a bowl or container and find out what its "difficulty' is, and maybe aim for 10 or 15 points higher than your current HFC skill. The difficulty will change depending on what cooking source you use (campfire/oven/forge), how many ingredients, etc. Once you can make 10Q casseroles or breakfasts, you will find each one is filling up your hunger bar much better, and you can start to make more complex foods. You do NOT want to make an overly complex meal at first as this will not increase your HFC skill. Making a dozen potato-in-a-bowl Breakfasts (or similar simple recipe) is the easiest way to raise the skill. LATER, you can start making more complex meals that fill your CCFP bars, but I would not focus on that till you get over 15-20 HFC.

I usually eventually progress up to Fullhouse pizza, but there are a number of other popular recipes such as bangers and mash, shepard's pie, and various sausages. Fullhouse pizza requires a marble baking stone, and marble might be hard to find if you are new, but the nice thing about Fullhouse is it's difficulty is capped at 40 which means you can start getting skill from it as low as 15-20HFC or so, and you can add tons of small ingredients to give better CCFP scores without the difficulty fluctuating. So you can get skill from it for a long time even as you make it increasingly more complicated.

Staying well fed gets a LOT easier once you get to at least 10 skill in hot Food Cooking, as each kg of food fills more based on quality, which depends on your skill level.

If you make huge elaborate meals that are high in weight but -extremely- low quality, you will end up wasting ingredients without filling your belly as well. At that point you might be better off eating high quality raw meat, if your top goal is filling the hunger bar.

For more info check Wurmpedia:
https://www.wurmpedia.com/index.php/Cooking

[Kitsune Dzelda]

TL:DR Yes, you *are* Kirby. You suck, but youre an adorable kind of suck. XD

No worries, youll get better eventually. :)

[bob_2059]

The easiest way to do this at start is by 1 or 2 ingredient casseroles or Breakfasts.

meat in a frying pan makes fried meat.
Doesn't get much simpler than that for starting out!

[SpeedFreak3]

You need to increase the quality of your food. Sub 20 Q most food you can cook will give you almost nothing.

As other said, try to increase your general cooking skill and your hot cooking skil.

Additionally you will need some way of aquiring ingredients with increasing quality as well.
Farming would be an easy way for you to produce great amounts of food and the quality increases with your farming skill, so over time you will get much better food.

[MTRamey]

I've found using a frying pan helps a lot compared to a pottery bowl. And once you reach a certain level, using larger items like pumpkin and certain meats can give you more food, which I think helps you fill up better. Still much to be said for quality, but quantity can help, too. A 1.20 kg beef will fill you more than .30 kg from a wild cat.