amou Posted January 2 Report Posted January 2 (edited) I'm in the late copper age and I've got a basic farm down with different types of food and some berry bushes down, The problem is though, I'm consuming food faster than I can replenish and I find myself starving 90% of the time. Any meat I find is used on crocks to prepare for winter(which I don't see myself having enough time to prepare for it lol) Anything I can do about it? I'm on August. Edited January 2 by amou
Solution LadyWYT Posted January 2 Solution Report Posted January 2 Welcome to the forums(and the game)! 33 minutes ago, amou said: The problem is though, I'm consuming food faster than I can replenish and I find myself starving 90% of the time. Any meat I find is used on crocks to prepare for winter(which I don't see myself having enough time to prepare for it lol) Make sure that you're cooking the raw ingredients into stews, soups, or pies, as those are foods that will be more filling. Bushmeat can't be cooked into meals, but is still a decent early game food source once cooked. As for cooking redmeat into stew and sealing it into crocks for the winter...yes, storing food for the winter is important, but it's just as important to ensure that you don't starve while trying to prepare yourself. Unless you're playing Blackguard, you should be able to pick off rabbits with a single flint spear, provided your aim is decent. I would say perhaps focus a little more on hunting, and try to pen some chickens or pigs to use as livestock. Chickens can provide poultry as well as eggs, while pigs are a good source of redmeat and fat. Sheep and goats you'll want to acquire as well for dairy, but they're more difficult to catch and take longer to domesticate. Fish can't be farmed and aren't usually worth the effort of catching, but if there's a shallow pond stocked with several of them that's a protein source you shouldn't pass up if you really need the food. One thing to check is make sure you aren't wearing armor/holding items in your offhand slot unnecessarily. Holding an item in your offhand will automatically increase your hunger rate by 20%, while wearing armor will also increase hunger rate. 40 minutes ago, amou said: I'm on August. If you're only in August, you still have plenty of time before winter arrives, which on the default temperate start tends to be around late October to early November. Do keep in mind that while crops won't grow during winter, it's still possible to acquire food via hunting and foraging certain mushrooms(or traveling far enough to forage in newly generated chunks). Certain traders like the agriculture trader will also sell food for a reasonable price, but that does require you to both have lore content enabled as well as rusty gears to pay for it. I'll also note that if you're really struggling with the hunger rate, you can adjust via the command /worldconfig playerHungerSpeed 1.0, with 1.0 being the default rate(make sure that you reload the world for the change to take effect). However, I would really only recommend tweaking it if you're struggling to the point of not having fun, and that doesn't seem to be the case here. 2
amou Posted January 3 Author Report Posted January 3 I got a basic farm rotation working and I started to get loads of vegetables, I also built a proper cellar which allows my vegetables to last the winter. I always had something in my offhand which fixed most of my problem but since the hunger problem was affecting how much I enjoyed the game to the point of thinking of quitting I turned it down from the settings to 0.75x and I'm having a smooth sailing ride to getting to early iron age. Thanks! 2
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