How to preserve food?

[BabaYuki]

Hi guys can anyone tell me how to preserve food?

Thank you all

[Tachyon]

I've seen nothing so far that will do it. I'm pinning my hopes on something in the Cooking skill tree. One long shot is that if they use the Ark mechanism, putting food into an animals inventory makes it last longer. Not very much longer but better than nothing.

It's frustrating acquiring lots of food only to have to watch it rot because you can't overeat, you may as well eat what you can and dump the rest because it won't last anyway.

[BabaYuki]

bump?

[BabaYuki]

Is this game that bad thst no one knows how to preserve food?

[Tachyon]

It's so new basically. Maybe no-one knows because most people can't get off Freeport.

[APDer]

You are able too make preserving bags and preserving salt

[BabaYuki]

i got some preserving salt that so far has no use at all. Im trying to find it on the skill tree but no joy

[Gunnar The Cunning]

mortar and pestle then just put in salt/iodine and flint and mix preserving salt put that into the preserving bag and voila

[Tachyon]

Aha, nice, but I can't make the preserving bag or at least I don't have it on any of my skill trees. I've never seen any Salt/Iodine anywhere though.

[Myk]

bag is under food tree, pretty cheap to get

[GoriestPunk]

im at the desert freeport. i find salt under water near shore little white rocks. kinda the same look in Arks Desert's just alot alot smaller

[Tachyon]

I'm in a Temperate zone and seen none as yet.

[Chrono]

Preservation bag is made at the loom, so be aware of that.

[Tachyon]

Thanks Ullysses, good tip there. The game is unclear about things like that in the Skill Tree lists. The Bola, for example... you get the skill when taking Taming, but it omits to tell you you also need the Tannery. If I can find salt I will definitely try this out.

[Chrono]

The preserving bags are like preserving bins from ARK; they require fuel (preserving salts) to work and keep food for longer. The salts do expire, since they are fuel. Looks like about 1 hour per salt, and I believe each craft produces 2 preserving salts.

[Nisi Diamondfire]

Okay to answer the OP...

You need a Preserving Bag ((Crafted in the Loom)), and Preserving Salts ((Crafted in the Mortar and Pestle.)) As others have said, you need to mix raw salt with with flint, and it's a 1x1 ratio, that nets you two Preserving Salts. Once you have a Bag and Preserving Salts, you can put the salt in the bag and put cooked food inside to extend the spoil timers. OR if you have more salt than you do know what to do with, you can put raw meat, ((Either regular or fish)) in the bag, and like a cooking pot, it will "Cure" the food and make it so you can take it out on the sea without it spoiling as quickly as say normal cooked food. ((Keep in mind it WILL dehydrate you rapidly. So don't eat to much if you don't have a reliable source of water!))