Early game FEPs

[Sevenless]

So I've been tinkering, and I've hit a stumbling block.

Early game, the good foods to eat basically boil down to fruit roasts and fish wraps. Abusing the energy system as much as possible to save eating until I could eat relatively not terrible foods, I hit about 30 int, 20 per, and a smattering of unimportant stats as byproducts. However, freshly built palisade in tow, I'm really struggling to see where to go from here. Assuming no outside help:

In order to hunt/fight, I primarily need agility and the ability to get clovers for horses. Early game agility foods are essentially inaccessible (Unless I'm missing something), especially with how hard rabbits are to catch. Doubly so because I'm now well out of 300% bonus and my satiations are starting to creep up. But I needed those FEPs put into int/per in order to progress my char into having meaningful skills. Simply questing for LP and ignoring int/per doesn't seem viable because the satiation/hunger system punishes you heavily for using low quality agi foods.

In order to hunt/marksman, I just need LP. However, people keep offhand mentioning that no one bothers with ranged anymore.

Crops are the obvious answer, but waiting up to a week seems like a frustrating experience. I know I could spam WWS in order to get enough flour going that it could be solved in ~2 crop cycles solo, but the average hermit probably isn't planning that far ahead as a beginner.


So, can anyone point out if I'm missing something? The only answer I can semi come up with is that I should have quested for LP, ignored int and pushed agi as much as possible in order to get access to bat wings. After that, swapping back to int grind since there's so many accessible int foods.

[MrPunchers]

Kill some bats after getting some leather armor and then dry the wings for great agi, you need a herb table tho.

[Sevenless]

Kill some bats after getting some leather armor and then dry the wings for great agi, you need a herb table tho.

You can kill bats with 10 agi and leather armor? I recall bats being rough without 30ua 30agi back when I last played.

I also thought you could dry wings on a drying rack, although it took longer.

[MrPunchers]

I wouldn't say 10 agi, but like 15 agi 15 ua with Leather Armor and like Uppercut+Sideswipe can rekt bats. Punch spam works aswell but not as good. For the nicks and knacks farm yarrow in Gardening Pots.

[Sevenless]

I wouldn't say 10 agi, but like 15 agi 15 ua with Leather Armor and like Uppercut+Sideswipe can rekt bats. Punch spam works aswell but not as good. For the nicks and knacks farm yarrow in Gardening Pots.

I'll give it a shot, growing yarrow is outside the timeframe I was trying to work in (<1 week). Farming enough flax for a herb table is cutting it close but still reasonable, especially considering how important it is in general.

Edit: 11 agi, no real options to increase it without trashing things (haven't looked at stat bonus equip, only gilds, but don't think I have any available at this stage). Probably just going to farm extra UA instead to compensate.

[NOOBY93]

You've got to abuse hunting very hard early on tbh

[azrid]

Use fishing its perfect for early game gainz.
Find eel and sturgeon nodes and you are set for mining and fighting.

[Sevenless]

You've got to abuse hunting very hard early on tbh

How is hunting abused these days? I was under the impression ye olde hunting tricks I used to write about have more or less been patched out (MM cliff shenanigans). Haven't played since before horses got added as rideable, not sure how that changed ua/melee hunting. Hunting only got really easy via melee once you had a sword for finishing, but that's beyond the scope of my question since by then I'd have honeybuns.

Use fishing its perfect for early game gainz.
Find eel and sturgeon nodes and you are set for mining and fighting.

I was under the impression bait fishing was unreliable as to what you get, and at least as of yet I don't have access to lure fishing.

Thanks for replies btw

[NOOBY93]

boat hunting animals while you have like 10 UA still works, hit the animal, back away, remove openings from yourself, repeat

to hunt bats you use cave entrances as a buffer between you and the bat while you're removing openings from yourself

when you acquire a horse, you can use its speed as a buffer between you and the animal while you're removing openings from yourself

[Thaydi]

The FEPs are shitty, but I think the Fruitroast made with Plum may help you with some Agi FEPs. Check my spreadsheet (if you haven't yet), on the pitbaked tab.