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[Ivefan]

Dried meat is said to last an entire year(maybe more if kept in a cellar)
Smoked meat holds out for, I guess, 3 seasons?
Salted meat, maybe half a year, 3 months - I honestly don't know

I think I read that smoked is good for a year if kept in a cellar, and the dried will be good for longer than that.

[Mephisto]

I just began a new character last night. Managed to start with 90-something stealth and pretty good stats..

Snuck up on a sleeping reindeer. I thought it would provide enough food for quite some time, so I stabbed it in the neck. Twice. It got up and... ran away. Eventually the blood trail stopped. Apparently, its gaping knife wound got better.

Then I began the tutorial quests to get some free loot. I found a squirrel in a tree for the "kill something and carve it up" quest. Cut down the tree, squirrel runs to the next tree before I can get a hit in. Cut that tree down and a wild canine creature comes along, murders it, and runs away before I can even look at it. I still got credit for the kill, though.

[Haspen]

This went F2P?

Fuck. Yes. Time to try again and don't get killed this time

[PanH]

But i'm wondering about the actual time before those kind of preserved food can last before turning inedible.

Heresy ! spoiled =!= inedible
Spoiled food is good for you !

While non spoiled food is better, and should be prefered, spoiled food can save your life. Spoiled food, even from 10 years ago, won't kill you. It will, at worse, give you a ~-10% sickness, and you'll vomit a few times. It's actually a very good way to get your nutrition up, since vomiting will empty your hunger bar (hunger bar is your enemy in your quest of survival), and you'll be able to eat again (spoiled food).

/!\ Spoiled food must be cooked to be edible, spoiled raw food is worthless, while spoiled roasted food is useful. If you don't have any way of long preservation, roast the whole, eventually keep in a cellar, and eat spoiled food.

Snuck up on a sleeping reindeer. I thought it would provide enough food for quite some time, so I stabbed it in the neck. Twice. It got up and... ran away. Eventually the blood trail stopped. Apparently, its gaping knife wound got better.

Then I began the tutorial quests to get some free loot. I found a squirrel in a tree for the "kill something and carve it up" quest. Cut down the tree, squirrel runs to the next tree before I can get a hit in. Cut that tree down and a wild canine creature comes along, murders it, and runs away before I can even look at it. I still got credit for the kill, though.

First tip : aim leg for reinder to not run away. Though if you don't have a very good weapon (knives aren't really good, the hunting one can be good because of bleeding, but that's all), it can happens that the animal will run away.

Tip on squirrel : squirrels live in trees and will not leave a tree except if it's cut down. Which means : don't cut the tree a squirrel is in, it'll run away very fast to a next bunch of trees. Other than that, they can move from trees to trees.
An easy way to kill them is getting them in a group of tree, and since they won't move away from that grove, throw things at them (rock especially, not stone). They won't try to escape if it involves getting down of a tree.
So, the way to kill them is to trap them in some trees.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah, I routinely hunt squirrels by trapping them in a small cluster of trees and throwing rocks at them. Eventually you'll hit and knock them out, at which point you can finish them off with a proper weapon.

They don't give much food, but it's something, and squirrel furs are good tanning practice.

[Robsoie]

Heresy ! spoiled =!= inedible
Spoiled food is good for you !

While non spoiled food is better, and should be prefered, spoiled food can save your life. Spoiled food, even from 10 years ago, won't kill you. It will, at worse, give you a ~-10% sickness, and you'll vomit a few times. It's actually a very good way to get your nutrition up, since vomiting will empty your hunger bar (hunger bar is your enemy in your quest of survival), and you'll be able to eat again (spoiled food).

/!\ Spoiled food must be cooked to be edible, spoiled raw food is worthless, while spoiled roasted food is useful. If you don't have any way of long preservation, roast the whole, eventually keep in a cellar, and eat spoiled food.

Are you sure of that ?
That seems in opposition to what the wiki is saying :
http://unrealworld.wikia.com/wiki/Food

food will spoil over time. Eating spoiled food will cause you to become sick, and may cause death.

[Haspen]

Out of curiosity (and 'Malnourished' looming at hunger bar), I ate a bunch of sand mushrooms.

And so curiosity killed the cat after several days of agony. Or rather, Ruuka Kuolovainen. Or something. Fuckin' sand shrooms. Oh at least I know now...

But I love pikes. It's a simple fish and yet, lasts for several meals.

[Mephansteras]

My favorite fish is Lavarats. They're not usually all that big, but a net can have a ton of them in it even from a small pond. One of the few fish that's actually economical to Smoke. I got 20 in one net once, which let me cook 1 for immediate use and smoke the other 19 for long term food. Since they're about 2-3 lbs each you get more food per cord than you do with cuts of meat.

[PanH]

Are you sure of that ?
That seems in opposition to what the wiki is saying :
http://unrealworld.wikia.com/wiki/Food

food will spoil over time. Eating spoiled food will cause you to become sick, and may cause death.

The wiki isn't really up to date, but I've never died of eating spoiled food. In fact, the only time I died because of food was when I ate some plants that I didn't know and that were apparently deadly.
Maybe in addition of some wounds or stuff, you can die of it, but alone, it never happened to me.

Out of curiosity (and 'Malnourished' looming at hunger bar), I ate a bunch of sand mushrooms.

And so curiosity killed the cat after several days of agony. Or rather, Ruuka Kuolovainen. Or something. Fuckin' sand shrooms. Oh at least I know now...

But I love pikes. It's a simple fish and yet, lasts for several meals.

You shouldn't go to desperate mesures about food before you're starving. The stages before have no consequences, while starvation will slowly kill you (and you'll get malus to your skills).
About gathering plants, use the herblore skill (you can use it on the bush, or on the plant in your inventory) to know what the plants do (toxic, good to apply on wounds, good in infusions, etc). I'm pretty sure sand mushrooms is a "known name" (the game will give you the real name if your herblore skill is enough, but a semi generic name otherwise), so you could have avoided it.

[Robsoie]

Hmm, i'll take then the midway path, i'll keep the spoiled food but only to give it to adventurers/hunters when i want to get more companions

[Sharp]

I think Dried food lasts 1 years, Smoked half of that (2 seasons) and salted half of that (1 season), roasted lasts 5 days, boiled lasts half of that.

Of course I only have tested salted and roasted, rest is from wiki, I have yet to see snow

Cellar doubles lifetime of food so even roasting food and shoving it straight into the cellar isn't too bad, might be handy if winter is coming.

My winter survival plan so far is stock up ~1000 firewood, maybe more and maybe 1000 boards and just spend all of winter in my cosy (hopefully finished by then) house crafting a variety of trade goods. If I eat up half of my smoked bear cuts in a week I might have to venture out to my trap fence (hopefully finished started by then) and hope there is something un-rotten there.

Does it matter if a house is missing a roof/floor tile? I am tempted to incorporate my cellar into my house so I don't even have to open the door in-case something spots me.... but then again my house is facing a lake and has no windows so it shouldn't be too risky opening my door and grabbing stuff from the cellar, or will it....

Also what's the difference between hiring someone for help and hiring someone for a hunting trip, I mean the help only needs food while the hunting trip needs weapons but is there any difference in what they can do?

[PanH]

I've not tested it, but if your house is open, it'll not keep the heat, which will defeat the purpose of the house (and of the fireplace). There shouldn't be much risk by opening the door (not more than the others seasons, if you have good clothes against cold). And maybe you should watch over it, as some animals may be tempted to eat your reserves.

Hmm, i'll take then the midway path, i'll keep the spoiled food but only to give it to adventurers/hunters when i want to get more companions

I'm not sure they accept spoiled. At least in trade, it hasn't any value (even worse than cooked). So, if you wanna trade, do it quickly with raw cuts/fish.


I think I'm going to do an autumn start, with only a knife and clothes. No trade, no eating spoiled food, no visiting villages (mainly, no smoking in sauna, nor taking the plants). I may take a mod for ironcrafting.

[Haspen]

Different start gave me a broadsword, a cup and few boards and a sheleter.

Survived 15 days before I got into a fight with a bear. I managed to sneak up to it, stab it brain, and then get mauled in revenge.

I like how the last moments of my life was filled with darkness, then screams of pain and victorious roaring. Fuck I love this game

[Paul]

Sneaking up on a bear, then stabbing it to make sure it wakes up really angry with you. Brilliant plan!

[PanH]

Poke a stick at a grizzly bear

More seriously, if your first hit doesn't damage badly a bear, you're in a bad situation. On another note, I spawned on an island, I didn't know how to swim, and not enough fishing to survive (and no animals/plants).