This rags to riches guide details how to easily and cheaply manage food and medicine in Stoneshard World.
Food and Field Medicine in Rags to Riches
Some guidance on prices and the new Food system.
Also returning from a Dungeon or getting caught in the Wilderness due to injury or misfortune seems to be a problem.
So here are a few tips for medicines so you can live off the land and cheaply if you need to.
Food
Where to Cook
In the Wilderness you can always start a fire and make any recipe that doesn’t require a pot.
4 Sticks makes a stick that you can apply to the ground to start a fire.
- Towns always have a cooking spot with a Pot in their Inn, and all Houses with a chimney actually have a cooking spot with a Pot.
- You can bring a Pot and add it to any Fire you light, or even add it to your Caravan, it will stay there until it is replaced with an upgrade. (There is a Pot in Gwynnels Basement, take it to your Caravan)
- Also all Bandit Camps and Bandit Dungeons have a cooking area with a Pot, you can take the Kettle with you from there.
- Some have barrels as a water source, rivers and lakes can also be used for this purpose.
- If you don’t have a Kettle you are limited but definitely not.
- To fill the pot with water, nightclick on your water bag, select merge and click on the Pot.
- To empty it, for example to fry something, nightclick on the Pot and select what you want.
What to Cook
Generally, always use edible Mushrooms or Meat when you cook if you can, since Veggies and Fruits are harder to come by. Lentils are pure Gold in the beginning because they have infinite Shelf Life and create the best starting Dish, so if you can, save them too. In a pinch they can substitute a vegetable in a recipe.
If you have a Pot and spare Water
Peasant Stew
- Ideal: Leek, Leek, Mushroom
Lentil Soup
- Ideal: Lentil, Lentil, Leek
Daytaler Stew (Bought for around 130 from the Miller)
- Ideal: Leek, Leek, Mushroom, Meat
If you havent got a Pot and/or no spare Water
Mushroom Salad
- Ideal: Mushroom, Mushroom, Leek, Rubarb
Green Sallad
- Ideal: Leek, Leek, Leek
Fruit Salad
- Never made one but know its there, because if you happen to loot or stumble upon 2 fruits its easy to get 2 Berries and u have a dish
Fried Eggs
- 2 eggs good shelf life
Meat Omlette (bought from the retired Mercenary Homeowner near Denbree)
- 2 eggs and 1 meat
Meat Skewer
- 1 Stick, 1 Meat, 2 Mushrooms
Where to get Ingredients
Sticks
- Apart from the obvious, Cemetery’s, the Shore and in the Steppes you can Attack a dead tree to get 5 sticks
Mushrooms
- Are all over the Place in Leaf Forrests, less so in Pine and non in Tundra or Steppes
Lentils, Leeks and Rhubarb
- Are abundant in Meadows (u need to harvest the lentils from the plant after u gathered it)
Eggs
- Can be stolen or acquired from the Caravan upgrade, if food gives u pain, rush that upgrade
Meat
- Acquire a dagger and throw it at ravens found at cemeteries, crypts and enemy corpses after some time, ducks at rivers and lakes, seagulls at the coast and DOVES in Brynn!
- You can also throw it at smaller birds and squirrels in a pinch but they only yield meat morsels which cant be used to cook the other meals.
- Loot the birds and pluck them for their meat.
If you are cunning or have dash you can also hunt rabbits with dagger throws.
You need to drag and drop the butcher skill from survival to your bar.
Hunting Rabbits with a Dagger Throw
You can buy a Shiv at level one at the Blacksmith for 25 gold.
- Go to the meadows and do your thing until you spot a rabbit.
- Now, dont walk to it, instead see if there is a bush that obstructs view is close to it.
- Then circumnavigate the rabbit generously, out of view distance type of space,
- until you are in the view shadow that the bush creates for the rabbit to see you
- and slowly approach from that angle.
- If you think you are close enough, step out of the shadow and take your chance.
Meats back on the menu
Shelf Life
I have a good rule of thumb to get meat and mushroom to last longer. I usually wait till it is one day till expiration to roast it which reset the timer again. If it’s about to rot, I would be forced to cook it which further extend the shelf life of the food. I usually have many plates on my caravan.
The upgrade that quadruple the shelf life of all food item is a good upgrade. I’d recommend getting it right after you built the coop
Later you can Salt it and use it in recipes to forgo the thirst.
Field Medicine
A small section for things that you can find in the wild that will help you in a pinch
Pain
- Fly Argaics in Forrests, at Cemeterys
Intoxication
- Rhubarb in Meadows
- Leeches in rivers/lakes
- Water, yes, chugging water
Limb Damage
- Leeches in rivers/lakes
Splint
- Any Bandage (even 1 charge), Cloth and 2 tile cloth u can repair with and
- 2 Sticks
Honey
Honey is found in Beehives that mostly are in the tiles next to towns.
Although recipes with honey appear later, they are actually really nice to eat raw, have amazing shelf life, you get a lot and they offer additional benefits.
