Just made a long ass post only for it to say “Security token missing”. (x3) and “Report to administrator” doesn’t work.
So I’ll keep it short; 20 days in with only 3 animals found, zombies no longer drop food at all, boiled eggs waste your bottles, fertilizer is removed, takes x10 of an item to craft a seed and Level 5 “Living of the land” only yields x5.
I’m spending 75% of my time running out of health and hunting for raw eggs and Yucca, the game is so boring and repepetive now as I can’t do anything such as building because bam I’m hungry again. Not to mention the status effects disable your perks and upgrading of skills, such as crafting iron tools.
Sorry but I find this hard to believe that in 20 days you only found 3 animals and have a shortage of food. Got some questions/suggestions for you:
1. Did you create a brand new world? Seems like there more animals in this update now or perhaps since I created a new world I got brand new spawns. I found 4-5 animals within the FIRST day of wandering around.
2. Did you create a shiv from the bone and use that to harvest animals? You get more back when you harvest with the 'higher-level' weapons (eg shiv, hunting knife, machete).
3. Did you do a lot of exploring? There are farms out there that have corn, potatoes and blueberries. Just harvest them or save them to convert into seeds (which I'll go into later). The farmlands are suitable for planting crops so you don't need to craft/find a hoe. In addition there are some POIs that have small gardens ready for harvest/planting.
4. Do even more exploring and check all fridges/cabinets. Check shamway stores or POIs that are related to dining. There's even one labelled Grocery! Some POIs have animals in them but beware if you can't take them on.
5. Your post implies you've already been to the desert. In A17 the whole bottom area is desert so there should be TONS of yucca to help you manage until your farms are ready to be harvested.
6. Put points into the perk to get more resources from animals.
7. There are TONS of vending machines out there. Sell items to get tokens to buy food/water. Get the perk to get better bartering prices so you get more $ for selling items. A full meal (like stew) should last you 1 day.
8. Did you put points to reduce hunger/thirst requirements? They combined hunger/thirst so that you drink/eat less often.
9. Living off the land yields x5 but that means for each crop you harvest you get 5 back, 4 of which can be used to craft another seed of the same crop. The trick is to use your harvest to create more seeds and plant more seeds. In addition once you plant a crop you no longer have to replant on that block. Using this method you'll have an overabundance of food in no time. In my last playthrough (a208) I harvested 800+ potatoes, 800+ corn, 400+ mushrooms EVERY 3 days (1 hour days). I also planted all the other crops as well getting over 400+ for each plant each harvest. I was level 4 living of the land until I reached 100 then got 5/5 for that perk. Getting masterchef 2 means you can craft vegetable stew which should last you the rest of the game.
10. Tree trunks sometimes have honey in them. I usually save them to fight off infections but they could be a source of food.
11. If you can, craft some sort of transportation since it'll make traveling much easier to find more sources of food and POIs.
12. Last resort enable/change air drops to drop more often like say every day so you get daily airdrops. They sometimes drop food. In my most recent game, most of the earlier airdrops were food. Eg. in my last airdrop I had 7 canned goods. Thanks game but a beaker would have been more useful.
That's all I can think of for now.
