Bush Meat

[Slam]

What do ya’ll do with excess bush meat? It end up being common enough in my area (no thanks to the 6 wolves guarding a trading cart near me) so while I’m swimming in leather, I’m also swimming in garbage meat, I resorted to turning cured meat, since I can’t use it in a meals anyway, and seems far more common to get then regular meat, but it’s still less efficient saturation per salt used then other meat time (until fish meat gets reworked in 1.21) or veggies if you farmed a lot of thoses.

[Echo Weaver]

1 minute ago, Slam said:

What do ya’ll do with excess bush meat? It end up being common enough in my area (no thanks to the 6 wolves guarding a trading cart near me) so while I’m swimming in leather, I’m also swimming in garbage meat, I resorted to turning cured meat, since I can’t use it in a meals anyway, and seems far more common to get then regular meat, but it’s still less efficient saturation per salt used then other meat time (until fish meat gets reworked in 1.21) or veggies if you farmed a lot of thoses.

There are a few crafting recipes that use bush meat, I presume for the sinew (see bows).

How far along are you in the game? If you domesticate boars, you'll never need any more red meat. I have to be strategic about feeding mine so that I don't end up pinned under a seething mass of piglets.

I think of bushmeat as something that's useful for nutrition at the very beginning of the game when you need every calorie. After that, the hides are super useful for leather, but the meat is just a good source of rot for compost.

[Slam]

1 hour ago, Echo Weaver said:

How far along are you in the game? If you domesticate boars, you'll never need any more red meat. I have to be strategic about feeding mine so that I don't end up pinned under a seething mass of piglets.

I’m in my first winter, bronze, got chicken, I’ll get goats when winter ends, I’m far from worried about meat in nitration. I’m just asking because I gotta kill 7 wolves in a row occasionally. Also, it’s just the recurve bow, which I can’t make, but I did buy one.

Edited July 7, 2025 by Slam
Forgot to add more stuff

[LadyWYT]

Typically I just let it rot, and then turn it into compost. If I happen to be playing with Expanded Foods, then I'll sometimes turn it into stew or pemmican, but it still generally ends up getting left to rot for compost. 

[7embre]

7 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

Typically I just let it rot, and then turn it into compost.

Same here. It's not like I'm hunting for wolves specifically, they just get in the way and are pretty abundant in my vicinity. Hides and fat are very welcome though.

[Slam]

3 minutes ago, 7embre said:

Same here. It's not like I'm hunting for wolves specifically, they just get in the way and are pretty abundant in my vicinity. Hides and fat are very welcome though.

 

16 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

Typically I just let it rot, and then turn it into compost. If I happen to be playing with Expanded Foods, then I'll sometimes turn it into stew or pemmican, but it still generally ends up getting left to rot for compost. 

Little math, each bush meat is 120 sat, and = one rot each, it takes 480 sat of bush meat for 1 thing of compost which is 10 N and 2 P and K per bushmeat. if your making Tera Petra, it’s 6,780 sat each, or half of that if you have high quality soil. And I am not doing the math for the food gain/lost that the increase growing speed will cause from the compost spent.

[LadyWYT]

7 minutes ago, Slam said:

 

Little math, each bush meat is 120 sat, and = one rot each, it takes 480 sat of bush meat for 1 thing of compost which is 10 N and 2 P and K per bushmeat. if your making Tera Petra, it’s 6,780 sat each, or half of that if you have high quality soil. And I am not doing the math for the food gain/lost that the increase growing speed will cause from the compost spent.

I've never cared to do the math on it either. I just know that by the time I'm able to collect bushmeat in large quantities, I'm also able to do the same for redmeat, which is much better quality. So the nutrient loss from letting the bushmeat rot isn't really a concern.

[Foe Hammer]

3 hours ago, Slam said:

What do ya’ll do with excess bush meat? It end up being common enough in my area (no thanks to the 6 wolves guarding a trading cart near me) so while I’m swimming in leather, I’m also swimming in garbage meat, I resorted to turning cured meat, since I can’t use it in a meals anyway, and seems far more common to get then regular meat, but it’s still less efficient saturation per salt used then other meat time (until fish meat gets reworked in 1.21) or veggies if you farmed a lot of thoses.

I have played with A Culinary Artillery and Expanded Foods most all of my time, so I tend to turn it into sausage, or just hammer and chop it up for meals if I need/want to.
For vanilla, only thing I can think of is cook it as a backup food or let it turn to rot. I imagine it can be helpful in the winter as a bit of extra food even if it does not provide much.

[Michael Gates]

Yeah, bushmeat is suboptimal. That said.. food isn't really meant to be that big a deal. It's just not hard to keep yourself fed, to keep two or three of the sat bars full. There's no Invincible Super-Food, and trying to min-max just never adds up to much. (Terra preta matures your grain crops about a day and a half earlier than regular medium soil. It's still two crops a year in temperate zones.) The system's designed to make it easy to grow and carry enough food to spend a few days out doing Stuff, and be fine.

I believe there are mods that give you more options for your wolf meat; you might want to check those out.

[Facethief]

I have a barrel of 11 bushmeat curing for another 10 days. I got twice as much redmeat in September for crying out loud! Why do I do this?

Edited July 8, 2025 by Facethief

[LadyWYT]

1 hour ago, Facethief said:

I have a barrel of 11 bushmeat curing for another 10 days. I got twice as much redmeat in September for crying out loud! Why do I do this?

Because you never know when a gaggle of dwarves and an old wizard man will show up at your door asking you to be their burglar. 

[Thorfinn]

10 hours ago, Michael Gates said:

I believe there are mods that give you more options for your wolf meat; you might want to check those out.

Of the ones I know, Bushmeat Recipe is my favorite. It doesn't set out to do everything. Just let you cook bushmeat in a pot.

I usually just despawn it. But someday, I'd like to think you will be able to domesticate wolves.

[Facethief]

22 minutes ago, Thorfinn said:

I usually just despawn it. But someday, I'd like to think you will be able to domesticate wolves.

And what exactly would you be feeding them…?

[Thorfinn]

2 minutes ago, Facethief said:

And what exactly would you be feeding them…?

I grew up on a ranch. Coyote and prairie dogs and such got skinned and tossed in the hog pen and chicken coop. But that shocked people on my 1.19 server, so I took it back out. 

[Kreeate]

I grew up on a farm (ranch I guess? for the Americans) and "bush meat" was always valued.

When it was not required for direct food, it was used for the following:

 

70% - Feed supplement for the hogs.

20% - Filler for regular meals. (hard times)

2% - Bait for fishing.

8% - Bait for small predator traps (extermination/misdirection, not for food)

 

That being said... I wish the game valued the "bush meat" aspect a bit more.

It is more useful (in reality) than represented in the game.

Realistically, you can boil and process any meat, in any dish (first hand experience) and have it being edible and somewhat nutritious.

The fact that "bush meat" is ignored/nerfed as much as it is in the game is just frustrating.

[Thorfinn]

52 minutes ago, Kreeate said:

Realistically, you can boil and process any meat, in any dish (first hand experience) and have it being edible and somewhat nutritious.

Round here, there are people who eat possum and coon. No, not me.

53 minutes ago, Kreeate said:

ranch I guess? for the Americans

It's kind of a regional thing, but there's kind of a fuzzy line -- if you are more livestock-based, ranch, more growing plants-based, farm.