How to leave town and not starve.

futurebird · 2019-05-13 17:42:34

Some of the people on discord said they don't leave town because they worry about starving. So here is a guide on how to leave town and not starve. Often staying in town at the wrong time is the best way to starve! So it's a skill every player should have.

1. Learn to recognize EVERYTHING you can eat. Don't get trapped in to looking for berry bushes only.
2. Know what foods to expect in each biome:

Jungle
Bananas

Brown Desert
Cactus fruit

Green Forest/Plains
Burdock (need stone)
Wild Onion
Berries

Yellow Desert/Prarie
Wild Carrots (need stone)

Snow
NOTHING

Mountains
NOTHING

Swamps
NOTHING

All Biomes
Food left behind by dead people
Abandon towns

3. Stay nearly full if possible. If you don't have a basket or BP hold food or a triangle stone
4. Dig up things like burdock along the path you are taking if you plan to go back so you can easily eat them later
5. Eat berries and cactus fruit first if you have the choice because these are renewable
6. Keep a keen eye for berry bushes and bananas hidden behind trees. (Even in picked over wild areas there is often still food there)
7. Do not try to cross a snow biome or a mountain biome if you are not full-up on food and have something to eat in your hand. Watch your hunger bar and if you don't get across it by the time it's low eat your in-hand food and double back to a biome with more to eat.
8. Stay full on food and with the highest yum you can manage near jungles. If you have little clothing you can easily survive being bit by skeeters if you get out of the hot jungle right away and have food on hand to eat as soon as the effect fades.
9. Be careful of swamps as a child-- there is no food in swamps and your town is probably near one for the water. The short hunger bar you have as a child and the barren nature of swamps make them deceptive killers.
10. MOST IMPORTANT: make a home marker before you go. It's so easy to get lost even if you use the zoom mod. As a kid your first action should be to make a home marker and walk all over your town (with food in hand) to find out how it's doing and what biomes are nearby.

Mostly just go for it! You may die once or twice but staying trapped in town isn't any fun and there is so much more to see and do out there! The first time you find an abandon cart piled with loot or a whole mysterious town will make it worth it.

lychee · 2019-05-13 17:47:06

Great guide!

I would add to beware of temperature shocks. Don’t go from arctic to desert directly if you can avoid it.

lychee · 2019-05-13 21:04:05

As a second thought, I realized that I usually don't leave town that often either because the towns I spawn in are a mess. T_T

I go when we need iron, oil, or rabbits... but when those aren't so much issues there's always something else going on... like the bakery/nursery being an insane mess, griefers killing sheep, need to plant trees..... the list is endless. No time to go outside for a stroll lol.

pein · 2019-05-13 21:50:54

ice and savanna is safe to walk in so that's a positive, generally when i lead people i go on edges of biomes, other than bottom left side, it's quite safe for the other

Danquebec · 2019-05-14 01:50:18

When I’m a male, I’m almost always out of town. People generally don’t make enough baskets, and generally there are not enough males gathering. It’s generally easy not to starve in the wild, just do some gathering and you will learn quickly how to.

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