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#### Amount of fruit on trees

When I harvested some fruit, it cost me 5points I think, and I got 6 fruit each worth one. It does not seem like a good ratio, there is no way to harvest from a few trees and build up even 30-40 points to continue. You harvest-eat-harvest-eat and make no progress whatsoever. If it was 2 points to harvest and maybe 8 fruit that would be better - just a thought.

Posted 20 months ago by riscy | Permalink

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- Riscy,
  You shouldn't be eating fruit to obtain energy. The best method early on is meat (or maybe I was doing it the hard way). And you get skills that up your harvest as well later on.
  Posted 20 months ago by Jhennauchan | Permalink
- Fruits, and cherries in particular, have next-to-no value as a staple food. They exist largely to be converted by a Fruit Changer and then made into mood-boosting drinks via a Blender or Cocktail Shaker.
  The most efficient early-game staple food is meat, as Jhennauchan explained. Straight from the piggie. At 10 energy per meat, it's the most energy-efficient food you can get without additional processing, and Animal Kinship only makes it even more efficient by giving you multiple meats with every nibble (up to 48[!] at once at maximum AK - and keep in mind, meat stacks at 50 per inventory slot!).
  Right now, the game's energy system isn't terribly well balanced, and most early-game foods are inefficient if made totally from scratch, especially by characters with few skills. I posted a thread on the topic a while back, analyzing the humble Sammich as an example. You really need to improve skills like Gardening and Animal Kinship to make cooking skills worthwhile.
  Posted 20 months ago by Doc Oblongata | Permalink
- Ok, cheers for the replies - I have been doing the meat, and found the fruits next to useless. As a quick fix, with no piggies around it helped to keep me alive, but nothing else. Will know that for next time - ta
  I am on Animal Kinship V now I think - only 2 more to go, so that might help when I get back in.
  Posted 20 months ago by riscy | Permalink