Noob question, how to get food easily?

[-Snoopi-]

I know this might be a noob question but how the ♥♥♥♥ do I get food to eat in FO4?

I am playing on survival with a bunch of other difficulty increasing mods, so I save often by sleeping which in turn makes the player hungry all the time.

I find certain meats around places, but not too much. I have some of flowers, leafs etc but they don't satisfy the hunger very much.

I have planted crops in Sanctuary and saw one of the settlers working on it, but still they don't give me any food even after many days passing ingame.

Is there a special way I can always have food without having to purchase it?

[Lifeisagame]

Well i usualy go to the Sunshine Tidings Co-op and get the Wasteland Survival Guide Issue #9 early in Survial because you Permanently collect more meat from animal kills - what comes damn handy in survial, then just go do some hunt animals - they usualy not that hard to kill and you get every time 2 Meat off it, cook it and your usualy good as long you keep pick up the meat.

Other thing are some "settlements" if you dont take em over they farm nearly every day food you can collect for free - Greentop Nursery, Abernathy Farm and so on are good examples and as long you dont show up to often (that prevents the cell from respawing) on same places that shoud give good amouts food too..
Remember in Diamond City are a lot of tomato and mutfruit plants you can get for free too ;)

[DouglasGrave]

Any food beyond the daily requirements of a settlement that you control should be separately getting placed in the workbench, even if nothing is visibly displayed on the plants.

I don't personally play survival, but I hear that noodle cups are a solid staple; easy to make since they only need razorgrain and dirty water (which you can easily bottle in survival), effective at relieving both thirst and hunger, and no rads, since it's a cooked item.

[Hedning]

Having crops being worked on isn't enough as the settlers will eat some of it. You need to overproduce to get free food harvested. You can always harvest plants yourself for food though.

If you want to go the settlement building route then using supply lines you'll have access to all of your overproduction of all of your settlements in all of your workbenches. Pretty handy.

Otherwise as suggested meats are great and food you scavenge should last even with frequent saving.

[Mio Rin]

Cook your kills. Always carry a few empty bottles to top up on water from clean sources.
Learn to make herbal remedies at the chem station, they help with when you're forced to eat bad food.

[Stardustfire]

at the first few levels it can get a litle tight with food, but after u get the survival book from sunshine tiding cooperation (doubles looted meat from wild animals, means 2 units from dogs and u can loot 1 mirelurk meat from mirlurk larves than as examples) it gets much easyer.

[Ficelle]

First, you dont need to sleep to save in survival
Just hit escape right after you have clicked sleep
No time is wasted this way


Cooking is the way to go

Meat from animals (especially once you the book from Sunshine tidings for double meat)
Noddle soup is great too as it works for both food and water and is dirt cheap and easy to make
There is eventually the lead belly perk that lets you eat/drink anything without any drawback (early pick or pass)
You can quite easily make Sanctuary a farm settlement right from the start (1 Settler can work up to 6 plants)

[Stardustfire]

its 12 plants, what u mean is 6 food, only muta is 6 plants because its only plant where u produce 1 food per plant instead of 1/2 food.

[RTiger32]

Go hunting
go farming
get cooking

Best corpses tend to be over a third of your kills, followed by humans

if you really don't want to worry about rads, get lead belly perk.
If you want to worry even less about food, get cannibalism. Theres no shortage of human corpses

[Cphrm]

Originally posted by Ficelle:

First, you dont need to sleep to save in survival
Just hit escape right after you have clicked sleep
No time is wasted this way

To be more specific, your game is saved regardless of how many hours you sleep. You can sleep one or 24 hours, the game gets saved either way.

[-Snoopi-]

Originally posted by Cphrm:

Originally posted by Ficelle:

First, you dont need to sleep to save in survival
Just hit escape right after you have clicked sleep
No time is wasted this way

To be more specific, your game is saved regardless of how many hours you sleep. You can sleep one or 24 hours, the game gets saved either way.

Wait are you saying that I can save at a bed without sleeping all together by pressing exit? Or do I need to sleep atleast one hour to save?

Because I always do the 1 hour sleep to save, but the player gets tired easily when you keep sleeping for just an hour, so I am eventually forced to sleep long hours, which in turn makes me hungry/tired quickly.

[zafire063]

1) Make a settlement provide tons of Mutfruit. You can get this early on at Graygarden. They are lightweight (0.1 carry weight), minimal radiation damage, and can't make you sick. Two of them fills you up.

2) Get the Wasteland Survival Guide at Sunshine Tidings Co-Op that provides double meat from kills. If you know a few good places to hunt, you literally never run out of meat. Can use cages at settlements to help this.

3) Become a cannibal. It sounds horrible as you immediately go to ravenous when you're hungry, but you stay satisfied twice as long as normal. I actually found it more convenient. There are always respawning humans near Hangman's Alley, which is the best hub in Survival anyway. Their respawn time is extremely quick. Resting or zoning generally respawns them. Cannibalism also completely ignores the parasites disease, which is one less thing to worry about.

4) Noodle Soup. Make a farm with tons of wheat, collect dirty water (easy, lakes and empty bottles are everywhere), and make some. It's 0.5 pounds per, but it has the added benefit of hydrating you as well as filling you up...Which means you don't have to carry water anymore.

I generally just use Mutfruit or Noodle Soup, but being a cannibal is great as it saves carry weight.

[Ghadaro]

As for clean water take some empty bottles to vault 111 if you don't have your own supply.

[zafire063]

Originally posted by Ghadaro:

As for clean water take some empty bottles to vault 111 if you don't have your own supply.

You can fill empty bottles up with clean water at any settlement at a water pump :p

[Ghadaro]

Originally posted by zafire063:

You can fill empty bottles up with clean water at any settlement at a water pump :p

Ah thats a good point my survival mod limits the water supply for regular pumps in a settlement. I forgot that wasn't part of vanilla survival

[Ficelle]

About sleeping...

No, you dont need to sleep to save
Hitting sleep, then escape before an hour has passed, saves the game without wasting an hour (and using an hour worth of food and water)

Also makes sleeping bags and matresses more usable as you dont get their debuffs because you dont sleep on them