Finding food as herbivore

[Karcel]

I have no idea what I am doing wrong. I read about the update that herbivores now need different kinds of food to be happy but I am running up and down the entire map and all I can do is to survive on grazing.
I haven't found a single one of the things that would fill me up and give me bonuses after roaming the entire map for more than 2 hours.
Is this some sort of joke? Where is that food? I know about the Oasis but even there I can't sniff out anything edible.

[Khanivore]

When sniffing HOLD 'Q' for a long time to increase your scent range (if you just tap 'Q', only the compass will show), look for one of 3 GREEN objects, run to those as they are the correct nutrients, the more variety you have the faster you grow, if you see leaf symbols that are Yellow they will fill your belly but wont give nutrients, emergency use only... remember to never over eat (once full stomach, stop eating) or you will vomit out all your hard found food and nutrients

[Karcel]

Originally posted by Khanivore:

When sniffing HOLD 'Q' for a long time to increase your scent range (if you just tap 'Q', only the compass will show), look for one of 3 GREEN objects, run to those as they are the correct nutrients, the more variety you have the faster you grow, if you see leaf symbols that are Yellow they will fill your belly but wont give nutrients, emergency use only... remember to never over eat (once full stomach, stop eating) or you will vomit out all your hard found food and nutrients

I did that and I found out that holding Q increases the range but after all this time all I ever found were leafes that gave no nutrients but filled my stomach.
Is food really this rare for herbivores? I just don't get what I am doing wrong.
After running around(quite quick btw) for so long I should've found at least one of the nutrient rich foods, right?
The worst part of it is that I ran around on an empty server just to test this new feature and on an empty Server there should be an abundance of food since noones eating it anyway.

[Khanivore]

Depending on your species you may need to find the area best suited to your diet, you just haven't found it, the map is huge, but saying that currently the devs want player/species interaction for testing purposes, so much of what is need for nutrients can be found centre or south of centre, but other areas still do exist

[krufra95]

https://vulnona.com/game/the_isle/#side/cfg

https://imgur.com/a/TgROSyR

this site is useful, you can click on the foods and it shows the general area where they are located

[Madkou]

Originally posted by Khanivore:

Depending on your species you may need to find the area best suited to your diet, you just haven't found it, the map is huge, but saying that currently the devs want player/species interaction for testing purposes, so much of what is need for nutrients can be found centre or south of centre, but other areas still do exist

Sounds like their testing server stability, and player performance when hot spots, or large groups of players bunch together. If that's all or part of what their testing. I can tell them player interaction is definitely messed up in other ways. based on our current mechanics, tho.

Future mechanics may make the current setup make more sense? Or fill in what's lacking? Who knows.

[Karcel]

Originally posted by krufra95:

https://vulnona.com/game/the_isle/#side/cfg

https://imgur.com/a/TgROSyR

this site is useful, you can click on the foods and it shows the general area where they are located

Thanks man, this is great.
I have since started a ptera and I have been able to find all the foods except frogs and rabbits but fish and turtles are easy to find so I guess thats a step in the right direction.

[krufra95]

Originally posted by Karcel:

Originally posted by krufra95:

https://vulnona.com/game/the_isle/#side/cfg

https://imgur.com/a/TgROSyR

this site is useful, you can click on the foods and it shows the general area where they are located

Thanks man, this is great.
I have since started a ptera and I have been able to find all the foods except frogs and rabbits but fish and turtles are easy to find so I guess thats a step in the right direction.

Sure thing dude, yeah those two are a pain, i usually don't bother with them unless i happen to see one. From my experience the rabbit seem more common in the center plains then the eastern section, but idk for sure, and i've seen frogs at the oasis and to the right of the SE swamp where the path/road lies. Good luck hunting them, my aim is terrible so i have trouble catching either of those, and i'm not sure but i dont think you can outrun them on ground lol