Food and tables.

[Taikand]

So, I'm with a group of friends and we are in dire need of food.
We made a table , saw the "Hunger bonus" figure thought ( wow , 90% more hunger from the same item? YOHOO!)
But after we ate I observed that hunger points were going down very fast.
So:
Question 1) How does a table help?
Question 2)When I put the cursor over the hunger bar I can see two numbers, what do they represent?
Question 3)Where should we be getting our food from? We used as a last resort "cheating" ( make a new character, drop the five loaves of bread, and abandon that char.)
We hunted some rabbits, they're not enough for a group of 3.
We've started planting wheat, but we barely have enough to start farming, so we can't spare seeds for food.
Question 4 (unrelated) ) We just built a house, but we don't see any use for one. How does the house help?

[SacreDoom]

Question 1: When eating at a table the 90% you saw was representing that the food only fills 90% of the normal amount of hunger filled.

Question 2: the first number (f.x. 90%) represents the amount of the hunger level of the bar you're at at the moment.(There's 5 "levels" of hunger: Starving, very hungry, hungry, full and overstuffed). the second number tells you the total hunger % amount of the hunger bar which is filled.

Question 3: fishing is a good start (you need the fishing skill to do the things explained here.) make a fishing pole form 2 branches, a spindly taproot (can only be found if you have foraging), plant fibres (cna be gathered from hemp or flax as a byproduct laying on the ground when harvesting the crop) and yarn, (wool spun on a spinning weel, can be made if you have animal husbandry and cloth making) and a bone hook from a bone (Kill a rabbit, butcher it and craft the hook from the bone.) Also, you need to find some bait or lure; earth worms can be found in forest terrain by digging (requires pottery), rock lobsters, (chip a stone from a boulder and make it), pinecone plugs (can be made from a fir tree pinecone and 1 piece of birch tree bark) or feather flies ( Can be made from 1 chicken feather and a block of wood) are all common lures/baits. When you have the two branches, just make a fishing pole in the crafting menu. then, left-click on your string and right-click on the fishing pole, then add the bone hook in the same way, and then again the bait/lure by using same method. Now that you've got your fishing pole, equip it and find a place where you see fish jumping around in the water. in the adventure menu, choose the "fish" command and click on a place where you see fish jumping in the water, then your Hearthling will start fishing (you can fish from a boat.) Once you start fishing, wait a bit, and you might catch something. If your Hearthling stops fishing without you telling him/her to do it, one of the fishing pole's parts are probaly broken. Then you have to go find soem new materials.

Question 4: houses can be used for building cupboards, which is a big container, but its also useful because things inside the house wont decay.


Hope i helped.

[spectacle]

Another good source of early food is chickens. They give as much food as rabbits, but spawn in groups of 5-10, and are easier to catch. They don't spawn in forests though, so you'll have to explore until you find plains.

Apples, mulberries and nuts are also easy foods. I'm assuming you're in pine forest since you're not eating them already, exploring until you find leafy trees is a good idea, both for the food and some resources they provide.