I may not be the biggest fan of A17 from a builder playstyle gamer, but I have 4 saves on A17 and have had no issue, literally zero issue, finding a cooking pot early day 1. First thing I have done in every playthrough is search the small cabins surrounding the towns. Almost every single one that has the small loft will have a pot tucked away in the back right corner of the loft.
You are not alone. Me and many of our friends have been playing since alpha 8 and 9. And Alpha 17 so far has dissappointed us immensily so far. At the point hat we feel that if the game doesn't change direction this might be the last incarnation of it we play. Ever.
I have a newfound appreciation for snowberries and baked potatoes at low levels. I'm still experimenting, trying to find the most bang for my buck when it comes to the cost vs stamina gain. I've always liked bacon and eggs but I tend to struggle with eggs in later levels (at least in a16) when I've already raided most of the nests so I like the steak and potato variation. At least I can grow my own potatoes, I haven't yet figured out how to catch a chicken for a nice supply of eggs yet lol
There are sometimes when I go a day or so without meat, but generally have plenty of food to sustain... My SP playthrough I have like 1000+ meat because I kept finding the stupid balcony pigs lmao. There were 5 of them on the Paper Mill balcony top at the same time, then 3 on a smaller POI, and 3 more on the balcony top of the shotgun factory. It was really strange to have that happen in like 2 in-game days. Have seen them at all in B199 though.
I haven't used this perk and I'm over level 80, my buddy says it's a great perk to have though.
Honest question, no ill intention to it. What is your play-style? Do you usually play as a builder, a warrior, anything else?
Sounds like you play almost exactly like me, I'm having a different experience though. I'm well over level 80, only died 4 times, (only once to Zeds) and I'm the highest rank on my server. I have all the toys and goodies, loot whatever I want, but feel stuck using existing POIs for horde night instead of building awesome kill zone structures. And if I want to build one, the only way to do it is to build an AI exploit funnel system, or the whole base will be shredded after putting in-game weeks into it. I enjoyed prepping POIs for early game horde nights while I was build a kill base. I know the game is not designed specifically for me, I'm not that naïve, however it does feel (to me) that this alpha does not really consider the builder/miner role at all. My preferred play-style feels forgotten about, and I think that is why you see so many voicing their opinion about on the forums. Some respectfully, others not so much lol
I see this complaint a lot about the "Logic" of the cooking skill progression. Is it really the fact that "boiled" meat seems like it should be easy to make that bugs you about it?
I will be honest with you - I haven't gotten as deep as you level wise yet so perhaps I will run into the same thing you are running into. I do plan on building a pretty bad ass kill zone with zombies running up a ramp and multiple auto turrets set up along their path. Not sure if that is an exploit or not but I watched my friend playing on his single player using creative mode and it looked pretty fun. Our multiplayer was just restarted so back to the grindstone.
