PC Food Doing Nothing

IceMan PJN

IceMan PJN

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I'm sorry if food has been covered somewhere but I scrolled over a few pages of threads and didn't see anything that seemed to fit.  I'm new here, as of today.

I'm early into playing this on Series X.  It's been some years since I played the older version on Xbox One.  I've been struggling for food and vaguely remembered me raiding the desert for yucca fruit in the past, so I tried that again and it seems to be worth 0 food.  The internet says 1, but every time I eat it says 0.  I ate a couple dozen and my hunger meter didn't seem to move in the slightest.  I don't know what's up with that.  I know 1 isn't a lot but it should be something.  If I eat like thirty at once that should be 30 food, but the meter doesn't budge and every time I eat it has the dinner plate icon in the lower left with a 0 beside it, like it's worth 0 food.

I've finally got me a couple dew collectors, so I'm getting some water so I'm not dehydrating, but I'm still working on reliable food and it's really concerning if I think I found a bunch but it does nothing.  There's other food items supposedly worth 1 but I'm afraid they will do nothing, too, though I haven't actually found them yet.  (For example, blueberries.)

 
IceMan PJN said:
I'm sorry if food has been covered somewhere but I scrolled over a few pages of threads and didn't see anything that seemed to fit.  I'm new here, as of today.

I'm early into playing this on Series X.  It's been some years since I played the older version on Xbox One.  I've been struggling for food and vaguely remembered me raiding the desert for yucca fruit in the past, so I tried that again and it seems to be worth 0 food.  The internet says 1, but every time I eat it says 0.  I ate a couple dozen and my hunger meter didn't seem to move in the slightest.  I don't know what's up with that.  I know 1 isn't a lot but it should be something.  If I eat like thirty at once that should be 30 food, but the meter doesn't budge and every time I eat it has the dinner plate icon in the lower left with a 0 beside it, like it's worth 0 food.

I've finally got me a couple dew collectors, so I'm getting some water so I'm not dehydrating, but I'm still working on reliable food and it's really concerning if I think I found a bunch but it does nothing.  There's other food items supposedly worth 1 but I'm afraid they will do nothing, too, though I haven't actually found them yet.  (For example, blueberries.)
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I was eating all the eggs I could find until I could make bacon and eggs. Loot kitchens for canned food and maybe you will get lucky and find a couple of hobo stews like I did. Buried supplies quests from the trader is usually good for some grub. 1 point in Animal Tracker had me finding enough snakes at night meat for days that will come to you. 

 
I think I have the animal tracker one but when I crouch it says there's no tracks around, which seems odd considering I even did it briefly after seeing a deer run off.  The deer was just there and yet there's no tracks.

 
IceMan PJN said:
I'm sorry if food has been covered somewhere but I scrolled over a few pages of threads and didn't see anything that seemed to fit.  I'm new here, as of today.

I'm early into playing this on Series X.  It's been some years since I played the older version on Xbox One.  I've been struggling for food and vaguely remembered me raiding the desert for yucca fruit in the past, so I tried that again and it seems to be worth 0 food.  The internet says 1, but every time I eat it says 0.  I ate a couple dozen and my hunger meter didn't seem to move in the slightest.  I don't know what's up with that.  I know 1 isn't a lot but it should be something.  If I eat like thirty at once that should be 30 food, but the meter doesn't budge and every time I eat it has the dinner plate icon in the lower left with a 0 beside it, like it's worth 0 food.

I've finally got me a couple dew collectors, so I'm getting some water so I'm not dehydrating, but I'm still working on reliable food and it's really concerning if I think I found a bunch but it does nothing.  There's other food items supposedly worth 1 but I'm afraid they will do nothing, too, though I haven't actually found them yet.  (For example, blueberries.)
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My first play thru I did the exact same thing!!!!    Make a campfire and search desperately for a cooking pot and a grill to attach to it.   My suggestion is to not leave the forest for the desert like the old days.    Stay in the forest!   Just north east of the trader in the forest is a place called Bob's Boars.  Go to the back of it, sneak and go into the right side basement.    Shoot Boars with a Bow and Arrow.    Hopefully 1 shot them and look for them sleeping and hiding down there.   TONS of day 1 meat, use a bone knife on the dead bodies.   Cook anything you can on the camp fire.    Watch the green bar right below your toolkit slowly fill.  That's important on this new version.    I used to survive on yucca for weeks, not anymore my friend.   My guess is the 1 food it gives you is immediately used so you cant increase it faster than it is actually decreasing, hopefully I explained that ok.  

 
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IceMan PJN said:
I think I have the animal tracker one but when I crouch it says there's no tracks around, which seems odd considering I even did it briefly after seeing a deer run off.  The deer was just there and yet there's no tracks.
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How many points in animal tracker do you have? Certain animals unlock at the different levels. Don’t remember which level deer was and can’t check right now.

 
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