Tips On Early Game Perception Gains

[ButterLord]

Total greenhorn here at this game, and I have loosely followed guides here and there and have made good gains. That being said I would like some advise on gaining perception in the early game living a nomadic life style.

Looking for best places to train it; (ei. biomes), Forage items, Hunting & fishing.
Other things that I don't even know that I should know. Those sort of things.

[Granger]

See http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/FEP_Table for what you could eat that gives the intended effect.
Also look up the workings of symbel, pepper and truffels.

[pppp]

Find an abandoned field of carrot and eat it all. Not super efficient but simple. Having a table with symbel helps.
If you need more advanced foods check cookbook which will help you choose foods you can make from stuff you have.

[Dondy]

I've had good luck with stuffing plaice into me, but required me to find a fishing spot heavy in plaice near a marsh for an unlimited supply of bloated leeches.

Check the area you are in for per resources. Collect every www you see to start a carrot field. If you see deer on your mini-map make sure they are alive rather than a recently abandoned corpse. Raise exploration real high to compensate for low per.

[Dondy]

If you can get a horse, perhaps taming a wild horse with clover, this will make it easy to catch birds. Quail is another source of per and so is ptarmigan. You can also use the horse to run down moles which give you per food. Venison, swan and boreworms are also per food but they require some combat ability.

If you want to get a swan make it come on the shore with you before fighting it, as it will fly away over the water once it is losing and once it is back in the water it is lost to you. It will sink when you kill it. However a good source of swans and mallards in the early game is beach combing which does not require combat ability or a horse.

[vatas]

Finding abandoned carrot field or plaice spot near swamp are probably most viable for a new player.

If you have barley or wheat, you can bake Blueberry Pie.

Assuming wiki's information of Plaice is correct, you need to find a swamp that is next to or close to a river or lake with node for Plaice. This will require some testing but will likely yield some other fish as well that you can easily stockpile for future use. Worth noting that type of fish you get can vary depending on the time of (in-game, roughly 8 RL hours long) day. If you don't see any fish jumping around, don't waste your time as it indicates there are no fish currently in local node.

I ended up getting inspired to expand wiki page for plaice. Doubt it is still perfect, but if a new player reads that and the Fishing page, they should have decent instructions on how to catch plaice.

[KitsuneG]

http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Abyss_Gazer
this fish is better, and don't forget you can spitroast it too

[vatas]

http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Abyss_Gazer
this fish is better, and don't forget you can spitroast it too

According to wiki, you need Primitive Casting Rod (1 leather and 1 cloth, relatively advanced materials) and possibly a Poppy Flower (for Poppy Wobbler lure, Woodfish that requires simple Block of Wood might do as well), but I agree that if those and suitable spot can be found, that fish is indeed better. Plaice can be caught with simpler Bushcraft Fishingpole that only requires some tree materials and string. Both fish may depend on area-specific nodes to appear, don't really about know for sure.

[KitsuneG]

http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Abyss_Gazer
this fish is better, and don't forget you can spitroast it too

According to wiki, you need Primitive Casting Rod (1 leather and 1 cloth, relatively advanced materials) and possibly a Poppy Flower (for Poppy Wobbler lure, Woodfish that requires simple Block of Wood might do as well), but I agree that if those and suitable spot can be found, that fish is indeed better. Plaice can be caught with simpler Bushcraft Fishingpole that only requires some tree materials and string. Both fish may depend on area-specific nodes to appear, don't really about know for sure.

Both poles works O_o
http://prntscr.com/m5tj9j
like any other fish

[vatas]

http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Category: ... et_of_Fish

Noticed that Grayling and Zope give PER when dried. Note that Plaice gives INT instead when dried, so roast it instead if you need PER.

At the current state of the world 10, finding abandoned settlement with planted carrots is viable alternative and in fact my character, that I'm using to test early game stuff, spawned right next to some planted carrots and I've only refrained from harvesting and eating them because I'm trying to figure out strategies to use on a fresh world.