Legacy:Find food!

Every new player can do this:

Look for an apple or a mulberry tree, usually found on lighter forest area (not fir). If you find one, right click it to pick the fruit which will then appear in your inventory. You must have at least one empty square in your inventory to do this.

Then right click on the fruit for the option to eat it. If you eat an apple you will have to drop the apple core to empty space in your inventory.

You may wish to base yourself very near a fruit tree for awhile when you are a beginner. Also if you decide to venture outwards, make sure to have some surplus food in your inventory.

If you get the foraging skill you can:

Look for chanterelles. These are pale orange speckles found in forests on the ground. Look for spindly taproots. These are dark brown roots that grow in forests on the ground. Right click them to pick them. (Higher exploration and perception enable you to find more.)

If you have the hunting skill you can:

Look for rabbits. You need at least four empty squares in your inventory in a 2 x 2 square. Get as close as you can to a rabbit. Wait until it stops moving and stand exactly beside it, but so that the rabbit is still visible to click on. Right click on the rabbit.

If it runs away and you missed it immediately click the round button with crossed swords beside the picture of the rabbit that pops up in the top right corner. This will stop the aggression between you and the rabbit and it will stop running away, giving you a chance to find it and try again.

You will need to right click on the rabbit in inventory to wring its neck, and then right click again to butcher it.

If you are either in heath or meadow you can try to find chickens. They are caught  and killed the same way as rabbits but are easier to catch.

However you might be lucky enough to find a dead animal, abandoned by some other hunter and not face the danger of the animal fighting back. Foxes for example sometimes kill rabbits and chickens, and higher level players kill animals for the learning points but don't bother skinning or butchering them. Keep your eyes out for dead animals. You will need the hunting skill  and an axe to butcher any animals.

Avoid eating any meat raw as you get sickness fep which can cost you hit points. As long as you can find branches to make a fire you can cook it from the craft menu.

If you have Will to Power and some form of attack such as unarmed combat:

You can try and raid an ants nest. Before you raid the nest, attack and kill all the swarms of ants that surround it, or else they will attack you all at once.

If you have Archery:

You can attack and try to kill larger game, such as foxes, deer and boar. They will not attack you until you attack them so you can fence them in to make it easier and shoot at them safely from outside the enclosure. Hunting enclosures are usually made out of fires. Just put one branch in and then move on to make the next fire. It will make a row of little signposts that the animal cannot escape from. A good place to enclose an animal is just at the edge of water. They often stop there and it takes fewer fires to enclose them. Foxes are the easiest to kill and then deer. However deer will heal animals that you are in combat with, so if you try to kill just one of a herd of deer the other deer will keep healing it making it harder to kill.

Aurochsen and sheep are not good quarry to practice on as they mob you if you attack one of them. You will need to enclose the entire herd, with your target animal enclosed seperately from the others.

Fishing is not a good first option

You will need to have fishing line, hooks and bait or a lure. Hooks require bones which usually requires hunting first. Fishing line can be made from a spindly taproot, so you need foraging first. To use it as a fishing line simply left click on the root when it is in your inventory and then right click on the top square of the fishing rod. If you have carpentry you can make a wooden fish lure from a wood block made out of a tree stump. If you have stone working you can make a rock lobster lure from a stone you chip off a boulder. Unless you can make a lure or find leeches in a marsh you will need to dig forest earth to get worms for bait and this uses a lot of stamina and thus may make you hungrier than whatever fish you catch.

While fishing is not the best option for a single player, it is probably the best starting skill for a multiplayer settlement if founded close to a lake or a river. Dividing the tasks (1 hunter, 1 forager, 1 stoneworker, 1 lumberjack-carpenter) allows for the steadiest income of food possible without relying on luck to find prey or edible plants. This might also lead to excessive multi-char-playing abusing the hearth secret feature. A player might just make 4-5 characters and specialize them in the skills mentioned above.

If you have the farming skill you can do this:

Sometimes you can find Wild Windsown Weed which can be dried to different seeds. Carrot seeds can be planted for Carrot that can be eaten (or planted again) raw. Grapes can be eaten raw too but you will not be able to replant the seeds until you have the winemaking skill.