Legacy:Find food!
Every new player can do this:
Look for an apple or a mulberry tree. 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.
If you get the foraging skill you can:
Look for chanterelles. These are pale orange speckles found 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.
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.
Unless you have at least ten in either unarmed or in melee combat you will almost certainly not be able to kill any larger game, such as deer and boar. However you might be lucky enough to find a dead animal, abandoned by some other hunter. 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. You will need the hunting skill to butcher any animals.
If you have enough strength and stamina you may be able to kill cows or sheep which are found in meadow land. Cows and sheep are good places to start while your constitution is low, as they do not hit back unlike the forest animals and foxes which can knock you unconscious quickly while you are a new player.
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 probably requires plants that are not easy to find and the plant lore or farming skill. 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.
What skill is needed to catch chickens and kill cows and sheep? is just hunting enough or does it need animal husbandry?
As soon as I know I will put the answer down here.
If you have the farming skill you can do this:
Sometimes you can find wild carrots, wild grapes or wild onions. These are much harder to find than the chanterelles but grow in patches. To get to farming you first need foraging, then plant lore. Wild carrots may only give seeds which will be useless to you until you pick, plough, plant them and wait until they grow. Wild onions should not be eaten raw as they give sickness feps. If you find wild grapes you should be able to pick and eat them, but you will not be able to replant the seeds until you have the winemaking skill.