FOOD problems.

[LowFPSman]

Why the food is so fkng expencive and why there are almost no food if any, in bandits camps? Its Kinda rediculous when you get 300-500 gold for clearing bandit den and need to get food for 60-100 g per day...

[goplayingbertoo]

lentils, ducks, rabbits, leeks plenty of food to be had.
go to a river you can get leeches to sell or use, and find a few ducks, fields you can find lentils(they dont spoil) 3 lentils and water easy food early on, or use leeks too, i think rhubarb and some mushrooms are some early food recipes. if you can make it to denbrie, theres a homestead that you can get meat omelette, after getting the coop upgrade, it like one of my fall backs for food, 2 eggs one meat easy 30 hunger gone.
i cant remember where you get the veggie omelette but that one is a good decent one since eggs are always there in camp.
get the chicken coop, it'll help with your food problems

[goplayingbertoo]

i think mimung posted a guide on food, go to the guide section, hope you enjoy the game

[baropin]

food costs an arm and a leg because the game is set in the aftermath of a war and presumably there just isn't that much of it. So hunting and foraging is the best way if you're poor. Take a walk through any forest and collect mushrooms and berries. Get a crossbow if you don't have one and use it to shoot rabbits, ducks, crows etc. Once you get a few levels and can take boars and deer, between hunting and the chicken coop food is no longer an issue.

[thebadman]

Food is abundant pretty much everywhere, knowing where to look and getting few strong recipes for 100$ would not hurt though. You do not want to be using default recipes at all except for those that give you immunity for cheap and thus can be spammed.

[money3030]

Hunting Birds for food? Well Get a Crossbow training one works enough, get Take Aim skill. Food crisis solved forever, Salads won't fill you up as much though.

[Btoad]

learn fire bolt... see a rabbit or squirrel? instant cooked meat! bon appetite!

[laveley]

You shouldnt be buying food in the first place.

Game throws food at your face. Buy good recipes, daytailer stew, meat omelete, herb fish, etc, all are good recipes that full you for an entire day or so and the ingredients are free to gather in the nature.

[Maa22]

This was fixed, now its all good, you can hunt you can steal, you can find plants.

But mainly just learn to steal :D

[Ellavina]

You can press "w" to swap loadouts. Keep a crossbow in your second loadout to easily hunt small game for food.

Hunter style drumsticks are a super filling dish. The recipe gets sold once in a while if you get the Rut situation in a settlement.

[Solanix]

You just have acquire a taste for bandit dog skewers, then you'll never go hungry on the road again.

[Tamren]

I had similar problems when I was first starting out. Once you understand the food economy things will be a lot easier for you.

- IMO every character should save 1 skill points and spend it on Take Aim . If your character doesn't start with ranged combat you can buy a treatise on it when you get to Mannshire for the first time. Then buy a hunting crossbow and some broadhead bolts and shoot EVERY bird, squirrel, hedgehog, snake and rabbit that you see, you will never go hungry ever again.

- Upgrade your crossbow by repairing any t2 or better crossbow that you find. The belt hook crossbow is the best early upgrade because of the +bleed chance. Once you have at least range 8 you can start hunting deer and other skittish animals. Bleed chance is all important, you will typically only get one shot and if it bleeds the animal is guaranteed dead, if not they will run away and escape unless you hunt next to mountains where they can't escape off the map edge.

- Foraging for plants is free. When you first start the game spend some time looking around the grasslands for edibles. Lentils are one of the best foods period because they are cheap (often free) and never expire, leeks are a free vegetable but only last for 5 days, rhubarb is an herb not a vegetable but it can substitute for vegetables in many recipes and like lentils rhubarb does not expire.

- Full wood tiles are always full of edible mushrooms, mushrooms can be used to complete cheap mushroom salads and meat kebabs. However mushrooms expire quickly so do not gather them until you need to.

- Cooking food RESETS the expiry date. Meat typically lasts 2-3 days, it can then be roasted for another 3 days, then cooked into a kebab for a final 3 days. Always cook your oldest food first.

- If you want to stockpile free meat in the early game make a trip around the lake southeast of town, there will always be many ducks and free leeches. If you're lucky you will get two drumsticks per bird.

Mid game tips once you have a caravan:

- Spend another point on Resourcefulness to unlock skinning, Animals killed by bolts will always be skinnable. The pelts and trophies are worth a lot of money and required for some quests. You can cook the meat and sell the pelts to buy premium foods like sausage and ham that never expire.

- Food becomes substantially cheaper once you have good relations with towns, any food worth more than 1 hunger per 2 gold is worth buying. When outside of combat hunger effects don't matter much so you can buy efficient foods with >30 hunger points like pot roast for cheap and only eat them when you begin to starve. Bread is widely available and lasts five days. Always buy flatbread and snack on it because it gives you hunger resistance.

- If you are capable of hunting large animals start buying all of the salt you see, you can use it to preserve the big cuts of meat, otherwise they will only last you about a week and you will often have too much to each before it rots.

- In the late game I buy lentils and vegetables with a shelf life of 15-20 days and store them in my caravan. When at the caravan I make lentil soup, when adventuring I bring meat kebabs.

- If your characters morale and sanity is low, food is the easiest way to raise it up again. If you have too much food overeating will give you a buff that raises morale over time. You can also buy pastries and beer from the nearest tavern. Save the booze that you find as loot and use it to heal morale after dungeons, don't drink before combat.

[thebadman]

Originally posted by Tamren:

- If you are capable of hunting large animals start buying all of the salt you see, you can use it to preserve the big cuts of meat, otherwise they will only last you about a week and you will often have too much to each before it rots.

Salt is more expensive than buying salted meats(with exception of large being 50$ vs 40$ salt), so I would not advise it, though salt can still be nice double expiration foods when you are trying to keep your caravan storage grid compact, but as you said yourself roasting and cooking already gives you plenty of buffer time.

[money3030]

Originally posted by thebadman:

Originally posted by Tamren:

- If you are capable of hunting large animals start buying all of the salt you see, you can use it to preserve the big cuts of meat, otherwise they will only last you about a week and you will often have too much to each before it rots.

Salt is more expensive than buying salted meats(with exception of large being 50$ vs 40$ salt), so I would not advise it, though salt can still be nice double expiration foods when you are trying to keep your caravan storage grid compact, but as you said yourself roasting and cooking already gives you plenty of buffer time.

Anyone on the latest patch can confirm if Sausage and Ham uses Charges properly now for cooking than just the whole thing? Should be nice for Dayteller or Skewers or well Meat Omelette.

[thebadman]

Yes, charge items been using single charges for a while now. Cabbage is not hot garbage vegetable anymore and even got some of recipes rebalanced around it like veggie salad is green(cabbage) salad now.

[Tamren]

There's no point in using cabbage unless you find them for free. The fact that it takes up four inventory slots for three uses of vegetables makes it inferior.

Originally posted by thebadman:

Salt is more expensive than buying salted meats(with exception of large being 50$ vs 40$ salt), so I would not advise it, though salt can still be nice double expiration foods when you are trying to keep your caravan storage grid compact, but as you said yourself roasting and cooking already gives you plenty of buffer time.

Oh that's right, I forgot the recipe actually uses two salt per meat. So it's not worth doing this unless you collect the salt yourself from Denbrie. Buying sausages en masse from brynne is cheaper than buying two salt per meat even with the high markup.