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oh i see,, thank you for the heads up.. now i just need to figure out how to find and make food. dies from hunger all the time. i just now opened a door with a battery and the guy on the other side died just by the door.
Kill enemies and cook the meat they drop. Eventually you'll get access to better ways of making food, but that is what you'll be eating during this early game stage.
Alternatively, if it's an emergency, you can also purchase snacks from vending machines.
Oh and don't kill all Pests with nets, otherwise they'll only drop Bio Scrap. Once you have a weapon, use that to kill Pests and they'll drop meat.
Super Tomatoes are a much better source of food than potatoes and you can get the recipe for Super Tomato Seeds very easily too.
Sure, you get more Potatoes, but Super Tomatoes are still a lot more filling. Also, how is making Bio Scrap a factor here? Bio Scrap is very easy to get and one of the least important resources, there are far better ways of getting Bio Scrap than having to rely on farming.
Let`s get white and nerdy: super tomatos give you 20 hunger and 20 thirst fill. Potato gives you 15 and 4. At first glance it may seem like tomatos are better, but that is not true. Thirst is easily combated by having a lot of coolers or simply boiling like 4 pots of tainted water, and if we do some multiplication we get that potatos (15x4) fill 60 hunger, while super tomatos (20x2) only fill 20. If you get a ♥♥♥♥ ton of plots for growing super tomatos then you may say that it`s better, but if you planted potatos in those same plots you would have a filled hunger bar all the time.
Getting back to bio scrap. Some items need it for crafting. But if you`re simply killing aliens and scrapping them for bio scrap you won`t get much, nor will it be efficient/enough to sustain you. I spent most of my time in the start of the game scrambling to get more because of how much i needed it for crafting anomalous fertilizer, healing syringes and soil bags (soil bags need 2-3 per pop). Potatos solved that problem for me, now i am playing with a friend who really is not good at not dying, but even the problems of others can be adressed by the glorious potato.
Also yeah just use the super tomatoes, even if you don't make soup they're just good in general without giving you radiation poisoning. Potatoes you either have to make into a soup or get your cooking high enough to make an oven, which by then you probably don't need them anyway.
You're only considering water for direct consumption and not taking into consideration how much water is needed for agriculture, which is quite a lot. If you're playing solo? Sure, you can hoard water to yourself, but you still have to consider water needed for agriculture. By using Super Tomatoes, you can make up for some of the water you spend on growing those tomatoes when you eat them.
Also, just plant 2 Super Tomatoes, bam. Now you have your food AND your thirst topped whenever you harvest.
Some items need Bio Scrap for crafting, sure - but still not as many to require a large amount of it. I have a LOT of Bio Scrap in store and hardly ever use it.
You can use Bio Scrap to make compost, but only if you have Anomalies to use, which is rare. You can use it to make Glowsticks, but I don't see why it'd be needed. You also need some for Soil Bags, sure, but it's not like you're gonna need a huge stock of Bio Scrap for them, and maybe some for Peccary Sausages, but still not a lot of Bio Scrap is required for them. You'd mostly use them to make Healing Syringes.
If you're playing in a group and needing a large stock of syringes to heal everyone, sure, I could see a higher need for Bio Scrap, but there are still better ways to acquire it. You don't need agriculture just to generate Bio Scrap.
I don't even go out of my way to make any either but still end up with a lot of it. Some comes from food that eventually spoils, some from enemies, I'm now even getting some from Canned Peas since I already have a full crate of them so now I'm just salvaging any extras.