newMania

I'm guessing you might not know this, but the two pictures you posted had a heap of food in it. Cat tail roots my friend. Cut the tops for your bags and then cut the roots out to cook and eat. I've been playing for a bit over a week and I've restarted quite a few times. For me the first 4 - 6 hours is just spent getting copper tools. As soon as you do this the game begins to open up more. At least it did to me. Then I was able to make the saw. And then the game sort of exploded with what I could make using it. Your goal should be getting copper tools as fast as possible. Just pick a direction. And direction and walk. You will find food, surface copper and clay before the end of the second day. Mark them on your map, find somewjere you like the look of. For me it's pretty much anywhere flattish, lots of trees and a smallish lake. Grab and produce you see on your travels, get the seeds and plant them near your base. But get that copper. This game is very different to valheim. At least it was to me. Like you I went in with a valheim mindset, but it doesn't work for this game. This game is more minecraft crossed with project zomboid. But like others have said, sometimes games just aren't for everyone too. I hated, with a passion, don't starve. And I really wanted to like that game. But it just drove me crazy. My first few play through, I turned creatures to passive, hunger rate and food spoilage to the lowest setting. It got to the point that I had too many berries that I was eating them when full just to make room. Then I started a new world and set things a bit harder. After a couple days I was doing the same thing. Now in playing with default and I don't really even notice it. My guy just gets up and eats. Does his work for the day. Gets hungry and eats again in the evening. Does some more work and goes to bed. Repeat lol. Anyways, hope you start to enjoy it soon. It did take until getting the copper pick axe for me to go yeah I like this game. And honestly, when I held that pickaxe, I have never felt so happy playing a game.