Food

Food & Energy Food is your main means of filling up the Energy meter.Sleep is the other way. If your energy level runs out, either in camp or while en route to a different site, you will be forced to sleep regardless of if you've prepared adequate shelter to stay warm and dry. You can easily perish from hypothermia this way. 1.) The food included in your starting inventory you begin the game with a random assembly of different ready to eat food items. These are the only non-perishable foods in the game (except wild berries). There are usually three energy bars, two of which are enough to get you traveling. Jerky and peanuts are both edible or can be prepared into bait for traps and fishing. Bait cannot be eaten by itself, but it is impossible to catch fish without any. It is deadly to stay at a creek and use all the jerky and peanuts you have making bait, catching nothing and starving. 2.) Trapping, Fishing, & Discovering Once you have used all of the starting foods, you must BE ABLE TO procure food from the environment. You Can Trap, Fish, or come across edible berries while gathering firewood. Of the two different traps, the snare (costs 2 rope) doesn't require bait and the Hare it traps provides a significant amount of energy, also during skinning, the carcass yields up bait of its own. A downside of the snare is that it costs 4 hours to make the ropes, but if you're out of bait, it may be your only way of catching food. The other trap available is a 4  figured dead-fall. This requires bait, but also reliably catches squirrel that in turn gives an austere meal and another bait. It also only costs 1 wood plus the bait and catches a squirrel pretty fast. Make sure that you check before travelling to a new site that you can trap animals there:  As stated before, fishing is unpredictable, but requires less time and effort. It also brings you into contact with a (non clean) water source. 3.) Avoid illness!  Cook and eat  your wild caught food before it spoils All food caught yourself must be skinned and cooked in order to be safe to eat. In addition, both the dead critter and it's cooked chunks will spoil if not used/eaten relatively quickly. Once this happens, your only choice is to throw it away. Eating spoiled or uncooked meat will cause damage and can hasten your demise rapidly. It is important to note that all water listed as "unsafe" must be cooked as well before being safe to consume. The exception is collected rain water and all starting liquids.​ Food Reference table Grh311 (talk) 02:04, October 14, 2015 (UTC)