Too much food farming required

[Trikki]

I'm taking a break from the game, have our own private server and overall love the game play. Just found I spend farrrrrrr too much time getting ingredients just to eat and food doesn't last long enough, a large percentage of time spent doing mundane crap instead of actually adventuring/building. Just my 2c

[Sprocket66]

There is a mod that lets you farm berries, thistle and mushrooms if you get tired of gathering. Finally gave in and installed it when I was about finished with the swamps. My seed seems to be poor on the lower end resources, took forever just to find a handful of berries.

You can farm boars/wolves for meat but I haven't needed to yet. Plenty of meat from just exploring.

[hi friends]

I find food farming very fun aside from that you can't farm(as in, plant them) thistles and berries.

[Madifier]

I find thistle to be the hardest thing to come by. Either that or it's recipe expensive. I must be pacing myself well, cause food is not a problem. Meat is always low, but I don't kill 100% of the animals I come by. Just doesn't feel right to mass butcher. Course when they don't drop meat, it can be frustrating. My current state is Wolf armor.

[Rustic84]

i wish there was more farming, High end food needs to contain more carrots, turnips basically more ingredients that you can grow. Also end game weapon upgrades are to cheap. Gold should be allot more rare as by the 2nd boss you can go to the trader and buy everything he has. Wish they would add more value to gold. But thats just my two cents

[Eightball]

If you are only feeding yourself and having to spend that much time farming then you probably need to give us a bit more information.

Even the simplest recipes, like Queen's Jam (forage for the ingredients as you explore) and Carrot Soup (plant one crop, go explore, come back and harvest) can sustain you for a long time. And once you make some Draugr gut sausage....

I actually found I ended up with a ton more ingredients than I really need.

Heck, even grilled fish is a huge buff.

[Heidrun The Goat]

Origineel geplaatst door Rustic84:

i wish there was more farming, High end food needs to contain more carrots, turnips basically more ingredients that you can grow. Also end game weapon upgrades are to cheap. Gold should be allot more rare as by the 2nd boss you can go to the trader and buy everything he has. Wish they would add more value to gold. But thats just my two cents

I gave up finding the second boss and went to that site that shows your seed's map. All my trader spots are on the edge of the world.

[Weaver]

What does this guy do? Plant a single turnip and just stare at it for a few days until it's ready?
Food planting, harvesting, and cooking takes barely any time at all. I spend maybe one in game day every few weeks dealing with replanting and cooking food.

[Puppers]

i havent had any issues with food or stamina , you get better food later on. Doesn't take that long either.

[Aequdsama]

You dont need to eat 100% of the time, stop just eating best foods when sitting in your base. eat only when you need a food buff

[daggaz]

For people calling me a liar, I went in with a max fine bow and 100 flaming arrows. Placed fires on the ground. Spent the entire fight shooting the elder in the face, running from pillar to pillar, and killing greylings with a maxed bronze axe. I wear troll leather so not even slowed.

I had to eat three times. I dont remember the specifics, but my foods were roast deer, red mushroom, raspberry because i couldnt be bothered to find some necks.

"Foods last ten minutes you liar"

Yeah, and you dont necessarily replenish them the moment before you are going to summon the boss, nor do they expire all at the same time in this case.

Getting hungry and losing stamina TEN MINUTES after eating a drumstick is stupid and one of the main points of the thread. Protip: it ties into the excessively short day/night cycle.

[Ketamarine]

Both meats and yellow mushrooms is better than bothering to farm. Then you will get sausages, then better stuff. Farming is super weak atm. it should give more like 5 seeds per plant. Or like 3 soups.

[ICBM 16]

Origineel geplaatst door daggaz:

I had to eat three times. I dont remember the specifics, but my foods were roast deer, red mushroom, raspberry because i couldnt be bothered to find some necks.

You kinda just proved them right by saying you ate raspberries and a mushroom, which you really shouldn't be eating at this point, to complement your cooked meat. You should have used them as ingredients for BETTER food. I say kinda because if you ate three times (even if we consider you might have half the timer on both the mushrooms and raspberries when you started it), then the fight would have lasted 35 minutes (assuming you ate the raspberry/mushroom three times for the full time on them) with at least one time eating a piece of cooked meat to refresh it since it lasts twice as long.

Raspberries and Mushrooms (of any variety) only last 600 seconds (10 minutes) and cooked meat lasts 1200 seconds (20 minutes). You SHOULD have maybe eaten Queen's Jam or even Carrot Soup, which is made using the Cauldron with those ingredients, to complement your cooked meat. And raw meat can be obtained from boars you raise, though getting at least one star boars will net far more food as a source of easy meat.

Queen's Jam takes 8 each of raspberries and blueberries to make it, which can be foraged for pretty easily since they grow in groups often. And carrot stew needs three carrots, which you can grow on your own easily once you find your first seeds to plant them, and one mushroom which is again easy to forage for.

Queen's Jam gives 30 HP, 40 Stamina, 2 hp/tick, and lasts 1200 seconds (20 minutes). That's much better than a single Raspberry for a food buff.

Carrot Soup gives 20 HP, 60 stamina, 2 hp/tick, and lasts 1500 seconds (25 minutes). Again far better than a single mushroom for a food buff.

[Echo2Omega]

As far as I know the next update is going to make changes to food.

[ODD MAGE]

Yeah.. keep crying. Your life its so hard.

[Heidrun The Goat]

Origineel geplaatst door daggaz:

For people calling me a liar, I went in with a max fine bow and 100 flaming arrows. Placed fires on the ground. Spent the entire fight shooting the elder in the face, running from pillar to pillar, and killing greylings with a maxed bronze axe. I wear troll leather so not even slowed.

I had to eat three times. I dont remember the specifics, but my foods were roast deer, red mushroom, raspberry because i couldnt be bothered to find some necks.

"Foods last ten minutes you liar"

Yeah, and you dont necessarily replenish them the moment before you are going to summon the boss, nor do they expire all at the same time in this case.

Getting hungry and losing stamina TEN MINUTES after eating a drumstick is stupid and one of the main points of the thread. Protip: it ties into the excessively short day/night cycle.

Drumstick lasts twice as long as a berry. If you are fighting second boss you should be growing your own carrots and honey. just exploring a section of an island should give you enough berries for jam. Jam, Meat, and Soup should double your stamina, give you powerful healing, and max hp.

Build a campfire near the boss summon (like you say you did) and eat all 3 when you get there. sit long enough to heal up because you control when the fight starts. With that gear you should be able to win without eating again.

Someone else said farming is weak but with honey and carrots and a cooking pot your stamina and healing should be at an otherwise unreachable level. It sounds like you are ignoring the entire aspect of mining and then calling the game a grind because you ignore what the game gives you.