firepit not cooking anything?

[Tristan Perotti]

Just started playing the game, built a firepit and got the temperature up past 600.  Putting literally anything, sticks, cattails, in the input slot and the progress bar never changes from "cold".  Am I doing something wrong? 

[Thorfinn]

Try an unlit torch or some meat. You can put things in the slots that won't cook.

BTW, a torch is now a grass above a stick. The handbook is right, many of the tutorials have not been updated.

[Tristan Perotti]

Do cattails not cook?  Tutorial says its an early food source to cook cattails no?

[Hells Razer]

2 hours ago, Tristan Perotti said:

Do cattails not cook?  Tutorial says its an early food source to cook cattails no?

Cattail ROOTS cook. Cattails not so much.

[Maelstrom]

On 12/22/2022 at 7:58 PM, Thorfinn said:

BTW, a torch is now a grass above a stick. The handbook is right, many of the tutorials have not been updated.

Torch is TWO grass above a stick or one REED above a stick.

[Thorfinn]

Ah, OK. I always place one stick top center, drop the rest of the sticks center row left, and put the top right the stack of grass. Now click to get a firestarter, then click until I get enough torches. Never really noticed it was subtracting 2 grass.