how to eat when you cant make food?

[BlackViper]

i havent got that far... just to a guy in wich want you to open a door where you need to make a battery and once you succeed and open it, the guy dies.. "i am chef," but i cant make anything "i dont have a kitchen" lol

[Kleo ツ]

You can use the small amount of money you've got at the start on vending machines for snackies and drinks. They run out but get restocked at night by the robots.

Probably other ways that aren't coming to mind right now due to how tired I am but others can swing those at you.

Ideally, workbench is quick to set up and a plug strip with the stove top shouldn't take long either. If I'm not mistaken as well I think the stove at the start works right off the bat so you can kill some peccaries or the smaller thingos for their meat, grab a frying pan and just cook there too...I think it's the stove closer to the pool that you need a reinforced hose to use.

Stove at the start is the one they teach you to cook with btw, the one with some rubble fallen in on it from the ceiling in the large greyish kitchen area with a freezer and all that stuff.

Now that I think about it as well I'm fairly sure you can cook meat with heaters too.

[BlackViper]

Originally posted by Kleo ツ:

You can use the small amount of money you've got at the start on vending machines for snackies and drinks. They run out but get restocked at night by the robots.

Probably other ways that aren't coming to mind right now due to how tired I am but others can swing those at you.

Ideally, workbench is quick to set up and a plug strip with the stove top shouldn't take long either. If I'm not mistaken as well I think the stove at the start works right off the bat so you can kill some peccaries or the smaller thingos for their meat, grab a frying pan and just cook there too...I think it's the stove closer to the pool that you need a reinforced hose to use.

yea i found that place, but those i kill dont seem to respawn for over 2 hours been running round anywhere and no enemies.,.
but thank you for the heads up bro!. <3

[Kleo ツ]

No problem! There's a lot of space to get lost in so you shouldn't be shy of enemies to kill too too often but it did happen to me here and there later on.

I guess you kinda just utilize vending snackies as a temporary relief early on while you cobble together a temp or permanent base and begin eating cooked foods and then into soups. Once soups start getting made, especially if you're solo you should never starve again, it'd be really difficult to.

I think you find a good deal of spare change in filing cabinets mostly if you end up running out so just always keep searching them and there should be enough vending machines around to keep your hunger topped with ease.

I played default settings as well if that's any help.

[ZomBeGone]

As you explore more you will finds lots of enemies, and when you leave an area they will often respawn. DO cook your meat, and you have to watch it or it will burn.

Loot everything for items and money. use the money for food if you need to, its the only thing the money is good for.

[BlackViper]

Originally posted by ZomBeGone:

As you explore more you will finds lots of enemies, and when you leave an area they will often respawn. DO cook your meat, and you have to watch it or it will burn.

Loot everything for items and money. use the money for food if you need to, its the only thing the money is good for.

i have a hard time to loot everything... im constantly running out of inventory space... i have a backpack but that only adds 3 slots... didnt know that money where only for food, good to know thank you sir.

[Jirodyne]

Originally posted by BlackViper:

i have a hard time to loot everything... im constantly running out of inventory space... i have a backpack but that only adds 3 slots... didnt know that money where only for food, good to know thank you sir.

To make the battery to open the door, the game has taught you how to make a crafting bench, and taught you it needs power. Meaning anywhere with a power socket, you can make your base. Find someplace secure, enclosed or not out in the open hallways, with a socket, set up a base there, and you should start with, the basic Recipe to build small storage boxes. 3-4 of those small boxes should be all you need, and note you can't stack them if they are blueprints, but if you build each one first then place the second one, you can stack them, so don't need much room for them as you can stack 3 of them easily enough.

That will help with the storage space issue, till you get better backpacks for more slots.

For food, there should be a few kitchen areas with pots and pans. You go through a kitchen area at the beginning to get out of the Caffitaria and into the room you needed a battery to unlock the door for example, I believe a pan is on the stove there. Not sure if that stove works. But when you find the Offices, you'll find a kitchen area next to the locker room and pool that will have at least 1 pan and 1 pot as well, and I believe the stove there will work, in case you can't build your own yet.

From there, just slaughter monsters for their meet. Especially the Dog enemies.

[BlackViper]

Originally posted by Jirodyne:

Originally posted by BlackViper:

i have a hard time to loot everything... im constantly running out of inventory space... i have a backpack but that only adds 3 slots... didnt know that money where only for food, good to know thank you sir.

To make the battery to open the door, the game has taught you how to make a crafting bench, and taught you it needs power. Meaning anywhere with a power socket, you can make your base. Find someplace secure, enclosed or not out in the open hallways, with a socket, set up a base there, and you should start with, the basic Recipe to build small storage boxes. 3-4 of those small boxes should be all you need, and note you can't stack them if they are blueprints, but if you build each one first then place the second one, you can stack them, so don't need much room for them as you can stack 3 of them easily enough.

That will help with the storage space issue, till you get better backpacks for more slots.

For food, there should be a few kitchen areas with pots and pans. You go through a kitchen area at the beginning to get out of the Caffitaria and into the room you needed a battery to unlock the door for example, I believe a pan is on the stove there. Not sure if that stove works. But when you find the Offices, you'll find a kitchen area next to the locker room and pool that will have at least 1 pan and 1 pot as well, and I believe the stove there will work, in case you can't build your own yet.

From there, just slaughter monsters for their meet. Especially the Dog enemies.

<3 !!!

[ULTRA]

Right from the beginning, you can go out into the lobby and there's a water cooler on the east side (left out of the cafeteria, toward the server room) which will keep you hydrated until you find more. As for food, the bathrooms back in the cafeteria will now be spawning pests which you can kill, cut up and cook on the one available hob on the stove in the kitchen using a frying pan. You'll be able to get enough meat this way to sustain yourself.

[Crochwhisle purple]

move to the second floor with the stairs to the right and go straight. go straight ahead through the computer terminal and find your way into the kitchen. Grab some hoes hoses and soil. Go straight from there and to the left. Find yourself in Data Farm offices. You`ll find a kitchen with a chance to get a potato that you can grow.

[Scooter]

Originally posted by Kleo ツ:

Now that I think about it as well I'm fairly sure you can cook meat with heaters too.

You can what now?

[Kleo ツ]

Originally posted by Scooter:

Originally posted by Kleo ツ:

Now that I think about it as well I'm fairly sure you can cook meat with heaters too.

You can what now?

Mmmyup! Works great for mass-cooking a bunch of raw meat :D Be warned though it tends to burn the meat so it's pretty meme-y

[BlackViper]

Originally posted by Kleo ツ:

Originally posted by Scooter:

You can what now?

Mmmyup! Works great for mass-cooking a bunch of raw meat :D Be warned though it tends to burn the meat so it's pretty meme-y

i bearly never find meat.. all i find is the small jumping asses that you cant eat, and robots..

[MechWarden]

After defeating the Pests (the hoppy things) and not via a net, you need to chop at them with a knife.

Knifing Pests and the beast-like Peccary will often give you meat you can cook.

[Kleo ツ]

Originally posted by BlackViper:

i bearly never find meat.. all i find is the small jumping asses that you cant eat, and robots..

Yep, what Mech said. If you're netting them and you stomp them then all you'll be getting is bioscrap.

If you're shy of a knife you can find some in the that starting area where they teach you how to cook for a tutorial and also in the kitchen nearby the pool. I know there's another area after you emerge from the first totally not Xen (Anteverse) portal above the electrified water that's another kitchen with a knife or two in it as well.

You don't need high cooking or bladed or anything to consistently get meat, just a bladed implement to cut up the bodies for pest rump and peccary chops etc etc.

[BlackViper]

Originally posted by Kleo ツ:

Originally posted by BlackViper:

i bearly never find meat.. all i find is the small jumping asses that you cant eat, and robots..

Yep, what Mech said. If you're netting them and you stomp them then all you'll be getting is bioscrap.

If you're shy of a knife you can find some in the that starting area where they teach you how to cook for a tutorial and also in the kitchen nearby the pool. I know there's another area after you emerge from the first totally not Xen (Anteverse) portal above the electrified water that's another kitchen with a knife or two in it as well.

You don't need high cooking or bladed or anything to consistently get meat, just a bladed implement to cut up the bodies for pest rump and peccary chops etc etc.

so i just kill those jumping fukers with a nife?.. that explains it, i always toss that net on them..