In need of more strength for mining? There's a few ways to do it outside of making a pig of yourself on food.
First, you can change the barbarism/civilization slider towards barbarism. Warning: This WILL lower your intelligence in preference of Str/Con, thus affecting your attention score.
Two, booze: drink lots and drink often. You'll need winemaking or beer making for this, though, as well as the appropriate crops. (grapes or hops and wheat).
Three, Bear Talisman and/or Bear Cape.
You can quickly hit 100 Str with these 3 methods.
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To whoever was complaining about the Int scores: Gather up tons of food then do activities to burn up stamina. Drink lots of water to refill stamina, pig out, repeat.