ZenTex

Calling yourself noob adjacent, but going out during the night. I've spent over a 1000 hours in 7DTD, but I'm always sure to be safely home at 10. (OK, I have other stuff to do at night, stone for concrete to build yet another megastructure doesn't mine itself, but still)

I do have to say, that after I pretty much spent the first 5 days trying to avoid starvation (the dig quests saved me, thanks for the tip, I normally don't bother with missions at all) that I enjoy this version more than most, just due to being stuck in the stone age for much longer. A bit of a challenge at last, really. Also, it took me a while to get a farm running, I just couldn't find seeds anywhere and I hadn't even come across a corn field until week 2. It does give me bit of a sense of purpose, hunting for seeds. Of course, once one has a farm going and is able to craft enough meat stews, the food is no longer an issue. Anyway, it seems I had made a mistake trying to loot all the kitchens at first. That's not where the food is. There's much more food to be had in the food piles throughout the POIs. Conclusion: Yeah, the food consumption is a bit out of whack, but I like it.

I started playing again, last time I played was... 18.4? I too am having major issues. Not knowing about the insane food issue, I plopped down a quick shelter as my base of operations. The nearest small town wasn't very far, but still a good run. It didn't take long before I got hungry, just from running to town and back. Now I'm based just outside of town, but things haven't improved much. Pretty much all I do is raid kitchens all day (canned food is very scarce it seems) and go hunting just to not starve and even then I had to spend all I had on food at the trader.. Rabbits are a bit of a hit and miss exercise as they're so damn fast and don't sit still long enough to draw my primitive bow and actually hit before they run off again, so I'd say they're energy neutral. Not knowing anything about the current version, I didn't know about the food issues, and did put a point in regeneration (it really consumes food for health?). Did put a point in master chef and the animal tracking ability, that's the only thing keeping me from starving. Farming is not an option yet with no seed recipes and no seed found as of yet. While I always though this game was a bit too easy, it seems horribly hard now due to the lack of farming at my level, absence of big game and lack of knowledge of the current version's food issues. and that's with over a 1000 hours in previous versions. I'm on day 6, have @%$# gear due to raiding kitchens only, and spending my dukes on food blood moon is coming soon and I'm underfed and woefully unprepared for even the tiniest horde.