How far have you gone this playthrough?

[Suxar]

Yeh, the increases are big; but I'm not starving even without them. At worst I'll eat a few cans, but mostly it's a diet of chicken and bacon for me.

It depends where and how to play.
When you play a single player game, you can rob all the buildings nearby. There is a lot of prey and among it there will be food.
When you play on a PvE server after a wipe, a problem arises. The houses are empty, there are no cars, and the merchant will not always give you a quest to clean up nearby. We have to use different tactics.

 

[theFlu]

We have to use different tactics.

Yup.

 

[Riamus]

Wood doesn't matter; what matters is the magazine drop rate and the number of eggs in nests. I noticed that without a cooking point, magazines drop very rarely in kitchen cabinets; even one cooking point significantly increases their number. The same goes for the eggs I eat early in the game. I think the same is clear with farming: I want to start growing what I need as quickly as possible and not think about looking for food.

I wouldn't worry about it for magazines. Farming and cooking magazines drop constantly. Without any points in those, you can quickly max out farming and cooking will be high enough in a short time to make decent food. You won't normally have enough cans to make the higher level foods right away anyhow, so it doesn't matter if food is maxed quickly as long as you can make basic stuff bacon and eggs to begin with and then steak and potatoes or the stews. That can be done without points in a very short amount of time. I never put points into either before about mid-game and I have farming maxed quickly and cooking is up to those levels very quickly as well. If you absolutely can't wait, then you can of course put points into those. But you're not going to run out of food if you don't. At most, maybe you eat eggs for an extra day.

As far as farming goes, you can find seeds all the time, so you can grow what you find and not worry about harvest amounts or seed chances and still grow plenty of vegetables. With steak and potatoes, you don't even need anything other than potatoes, and you can do just fine on that until you're ready to start really pushing your farm. And if you get some farmer armor, you'll increase your farming without perks if you really want it.

In any case, putting points into those is fine if you like to do that. It does increase your food options. However, if you had points into your weapon, you'd have better weapons faster. So depending on whether or not you plan on fighting, that can be a far better option. But it's just personal preferences in the end.

 

[Dead Smarty]

True, but by the time you have hunting knives and machetes, it's not exactly expensive or difficult to make repair kits. I certainly won't stick with a wooden spear or a pipe pistol just because they are cheaper to repair.

In my experience are wooden spears and pipe guns inferior to the higher tier variants while the bone knife with power attack still can do insta kill on basic zeds in the wasteland when poking in the eye. Besides that, it is also giving a better feel of surviving.

(Not to mention the speed: with my skill issues I need that second chance ASAP )

 

[WarMongerian]

Day 45, Time 0655 hrs, level 238, 6940 kills...

 

[bobrpggamer]

Day 45, Time 0655 hrs, level 238, 6940 kills...

If you want to quit at level 300, your just about there. I would advise you to take advantage of your high level beyond 300 and raid a bunch of level 5 POIs for the heck of it.

 

[WarMongerian]

If you want to quit at level 300, your just about there. I would advise you to take advantage of your high level beyond 300 and raid a bunch of level 5 POIs for the heck of it.

I'm waiting for getting them as quests. My friend and I used to play the v2.0 new high tier PoI's, but we found that those new quests were buggy and kept crashing all the time, so we stopped playing in the same game, and now, all we do is play separate/side-by-side games.

We both play to 300, although my friend died once already in his current game. I should be able to reach 300th level and restart within this next week.

Edit: I have a question, isn't there a way to make stone blocks at the workbench? I wanted to make some to patch up areas in my mines, but when I just looked, I can track the formula, but not craft it. Is this a bug?

Edit 2: Never mind. it isn't made in the workbench, but the cement mixer, lol.

Day 46, 2039 hrs...

 

[bobrpggamer]

Edit: I have a question, isn't there a way to make stone blocks at the workbench? I wanted to make some to patch up areas in my mines, but when I just looked, I can track the formula, but not craft it. Is this a bug?

You can make all blocks at the workbench. You just need wood for wood blocks (including helper blocks) you can make cobblestone block with cobble, you can make concrete blocks with concrete and you can make steel blocks with steel at the workbench. But yeah you need to make concrete in the cement mixer with Rock, Cement and Sand. You need to make cobble with Stone and Clay and of course you need to make steel with Scrap Metal and Clay at forges with crucibles.

The good thing about making all kinds of blocks with the workbench is that you can offload them to a couple of workbenches to do it without using your own characters queue. If you add too much to your personal queue you will have no way to repair anything or do something else you need to until your personal queue of whatever is done.

I have 8 workbenches and I use them for scrapping things and If I need something, but a lot of it. I have each workstation do 5 at a time and I have 40 of whatever faster than If I use one workbench. Scrapping radiators takes forever so I always use the workbench.

 

[theFlu]

You can make all blocks at the workbench.

Most blocks, not all. I think stone and asphalt (the terrain block types) require the cement mixer. It's a bit weird, but ... I think the forge still can make some specific iron and glass type blocks that can't be crafted elsewhere.