Gathering Resources & Cooking

Learning to gather raw materials and cook them is essential for long-term survival. This guide covers everything from chopping wood to preparing a full meal.

Gathering Raw Materials

• Wood: To start a fire, you first need wood. Equip an axe and use it on trees to gather wood.
• Fish: Fish are a great source of food. Equip a fishing_net, stand by a water source, and press the Space key repeatedly to catch fish.
• Oysters: You can find oyster items in deep water.
• Leaves: You can gather leaves from the ground, which are needed to make tea.

Preparing Ingredients

Preparing Animal Meat

Before you can cook meat, you must prepare the animal carcass. This is a two-step process.

1. Skinning the Carcass: After hunting an animal, pick up its corpse (e.g., death_bear). Place the corpse in one hand and a knife in the other. Press T multiple times to skin it. This will give you a skinned carcass.
2. Butchering the Meat: Repeat the process with the skinned carcass and a knife. Press T multiple times to butcher it into pieces of raw meat (e.g., raw_bear_meat).

The following animals are currently edible:

• Rabbit (rabit)
• Bear (bear)
• Boar (boar)
• Wolf (wolf)
• Fish (fish) - Fish do not need to be skinned or butchered.

Preparing Oysters

Oysters can be eaten raw but must be opened first. Place the oyster in one hand and a knife in the other. It takes two stages of combining with the knife to get an eatable_oyster.

The Cooking Process

Step 1: Making a Fire

To cook, you need a fire. Place wood on the ground and then use either a firestarter or a match on the wood to ignite it.

Step 2: Cooking the Meat

There are two methods for cooking meat over a fire:

Method 1: Using a Spit

1. Attach one piece of raw meat to a spit.
2. Hold the spit with the meat over the fire.
3. Press the Space key once. The cooking process will begin automatically.
4. Once cooked, the meat will appear in your inventory. You must then equip it and use it to remove it from the spit before you can eat it.

Method 2: Using a Skillet

1. Place up to 10 pieces of raw meat into a skillet.
2. Hold the skillet over the fire.
3. Press the Space key multiple times to cook the meat.

Boiling Water & Making Tea

Boiling water is useful for creating certain recipes, like tea, which restores health and quenches thirst.

1. Fill a pot with water.
2. Hold the water-filled pot over a fire.
3. Press the Space key multiple times. A boiling_water_pot will be placed in your inventory.
4. Combine the boiling_water_pot with leaves to create a pot_of_tea.
5. Combine the pot_of_tea with a cup to get a cup_of_tea, which is ready to drink.