My tip for food, is as soon as you can head on south from Sanctuary to the Sunshine Tidings CO-OP. You'll have to deal with a few ghouls but once clear there is a wasteland survival magazine you can pick up in the room with the loot chest. It's just on the floor near the chest. The perk it gives you gives you double meat from any animal you kill. You can then cook it and have more than enough rad free food to stave off starvation, and a number of great buffs from the food too.
You find it harder to manage your thirst? In the first settlement when you build one purifier it will produce plenty of water. Also hoarding empty bottles and filling them from a simple pump in your settlement will provide tons of clean water. Every time you are near a settlement you can drink directly from the pump as well. Usually the routine is you sleep to save, drink from a pump to full and you head out. I find it harder to have enough food because the crops you grow are irradiated and clean food doesnt come free. Bethesda should've added some cooking recipes for vegetable soups with clean water and the crops you grow in my opinion. You should have a good reason to invest in your settlement after all.
If you plant a small garden at each settlement and have at least one settler there, you will have food to pick every time you visit the settlement. Any extra crops and/or pure water will be in the workshop and should be removed to yourself or a container at every visit as workshop stored food and water attracts attackers.
Build a Food Processor and you can create clean food easily. 3 Tato + 1 Cloth will get you Preserved Instamash 1 Carrot + 1 Razorgrain + 1 Purified Water + 1 Plastic will get you (Clean) Blamco Mac-n-Cheese The first is super cheap to make, the second only weighs 0.1 instead of 0.5 like most foods. Wild Mutfruit also only weighs 0.1 and is common around Sanctuary to build up and don't have many Rads (only 2). Of course, since all your bottles are going to dirty water, you can combine them with Razorgrain to make noodles (which are food and water, making them a great healing item, since every time you use one to cure hp or one status, they reset the timer(s) for the other status(es)). Running down the Sunshine Co-op also nets you the magazine that doubles the meat from most critters. That is very helpful for producing more food on the go (cook stations are common across the entire map).
I've heard that survival mode greatly reduces the rate at which new monsters respawn. This seems to have affected my hunting as I don't find as many molerats and delicious wild dogs roaming around. I need to hunt further and further away. Also, since eating doesn't give you hit points back, the Pip Boy will show 0 HP for each food item. What I've noticed is that the message "You are properly fed" is slightly delayed after eating but the Pip Boy health values change instantly. So watching that number as you munch down on Mutt Chops will show you exactly when you can stop eating. I used to wait for the message and tended to over eat and waste food. This is true with water as well.
If you run across any wild food, pick it. You can eat that to reduce hunger while your HP is not increasing. As soon as you are no longer hungry, eat cooked food to regain lost HP.
Great series - great tips. After an extensive play on normal difficulty with a good character, I just decided what the hell and started a new no-going-back-Survival-mode character and this is helping me a lot. Thanks!
I just started a Survival playthrough and stumbled across your channel, this was a great series and really helped me come up with a good system for managing my thirst! ( that any empty bottle works especially good little tip, i hadnt been looting the empty beer bottles lol). anyway, thanks!
Good info. I didn't realize all foods sated the same amount of hunger. I love the way you present the top 5 foods by setting them on tables in the game.
Great video! I never had issues with finding raw meat to cook almost every where you go there's animals to kill had more issues with water until i found out you can fill beer bottles with water from the well. i normally carry 15 purified water 2 ragstag 4 molerat chunks and 4 mutt chops at the least. And if you find the magazine that gives you extra meat from dead animals it helps a lot.
Watched your videos on both hunger and thirst. I'm pretty much done a very thorough and long (and only) playthrough on survival mode and after some testing, my #1 food/drink item is Noodle Cup. When I get the "parched" notification, I eat a single noodle cup and it clears the thirst. By doing this, I would *never* get the hunger notification. Thirst occurs more frequently than hunger, so you're always ahead of your hunger this way. Also, should you get the hunger notification, NOT all foods are created equal. Some will satisfy that hunger in a single shot (with no healing or special effects), such as a steak, while mutt chops will take two to clear the hunger. For that reason, I also carried some light food with me (e.g., iguana or squirrel) just in case I was late in eating my noodle cup and also got a hunger. Then I would take a noodle cup and a small snack. If you have to take medicine, you will get thirsty. For that, I carry some purified water to cut some of the thirst, plus I down a noodle cup for the rest (two drinks required to clear "thirsty" from antibiotics or rad-x). This plan works best if you are doing some settlements. Once I have them up and running, I move most or allfood production over to Razorgrain. You don't need more than the population, but you will then have to harvest the grain yourself whenever you pass through that settlement. Collect bottles like an alcoholic hoarder and fill them with DIRTY water only. You can actually make purified water at a settlement (as shown in video), plus purified water is much more readily found as loot. Bottles are for dirty water (using my system) except for the early game, where you won't have enough razorgrain anyway.
I like collecting the ingredients for the lightest food with the best hunger satisfaction - I think its Iguana Sticks as far as I can tell - and only eating them when I'm away from another food source like a settlement
On my survival playthough I have used Mutfruit as my only food source for so long. Mutfruit weighs only 0.1 pounds so you can carry insane amounts of it. Unfortunately Mutfruit has radiation but that can be alleviated by rank 3 of the Lead Belly perk. Just reached level 67 on my survival playthough the beginning is aggravating but late game you turn into a tank just like normal mode.
I did this too, but I never went for lead belly because the radiation was so minor. It takes 10 rads to lower your health by 1, so it was never enough to matter. I also built decontamination arches at my settlements because I refused to take radaway due to it's negatives.
In regular mode, melons are a little pointless. In survival mode, melons are great for eating around your base when crafting, building, whatever. They supply you with one serving of food and one serving of hydration. They hit you with some rads, but by the mid game you should have a decontamination arch, so its trivial. I keep a small patch of 5 melon plants in my main base for snacking. Not so great to carry with you, since they're 1 pound apiece, but it doesn't matter when you're at your base and they spare you having to eat more weight efficient food and drink when you're at home.
Really well done--I've been trying to get to a lighter "survival kit" on my characters, but I usually just end up carrying 70 purified water and a ton of food (extra capacity from Lone Wanderer). Pack rat is real! :P
I have found that Cram is twice as effective as raw produce, such as corn or mutfruit. I haven't gotten sick from cram yet. I've tried 4 files each getting to level 10-15 each, but I had other problems with those before deleting them.
In my game Cram (and any other kind of food) had the same values as raw produce. I did quite a lot of testing too. Weird. I'm curious how you went about testing it. I would just eat different foods when I was in the first stage of hunger, which is Peckish. I always did it immediately after entering that stage too, so my hunger was always at the exact same level each time. No matter what I ate, it always took two food items to satisfy my hunger when peckish. Didn't matter if it was mutfruit or Cram or anything else.
Obviously it has been a very long time, but yes, I play Survival pretty much exclusively now when I play FO4 (on Playstation 4) and I have also noticed Cram seems to bring me back from peckish to sated with just one can - I haven't really tried it on any other levels of hunger as I try not to let it ever drop below peckish, so I can't say if it is universally twice as effective or only works to get from Peckish to sated, but, despite the weight and radiation, it's probably my go to pre-war food (partly because I am one of those weirdos who likes its real world equivalent, spam...lol). Of course you could argue that 2 gum drops does exactly the same job for less weight, and you'd be absolutely right, however playing for the immersion factor, which is why I enjoy Survival, it just feels more legitimate to ward off hunger with a can of cram than a couple of packets of sweets.
Settlers do the farming, not you. You plant the crops. Farmers maintain the crops. Harvesting is automatic daily except what you harvest. The auto harvest also deducts what the Settlers eat and store the remainder in the Workshop. (Except in my Sanctuary Workshop. It only stores pure water.) You assign the job of farming to Settlers. Farmers will care for 6 food items, which means two plants to produce one food except for Mutfruit which produces 1 food per plant. I like to plant 6 of each of the 7 different food types. This needs only 4 farmers and produces 24 food per game day. Anytime I go to a Settlement I remove all food and water in the Workshop, then store it in a nearby container. (I use red toolboxes.) I do this because a lot of food and/or pure water stored in the Workshop attracts attackers. (Actually, it just increases the odds the Settlement will be attacked. The norm is a 2% chance per game day.) Where to get the food ? The manned farms are raising their favorite crop of food. Some have only 1 food type, like Tenpines Bluff, growing only tatos. But Grey Gardens grows everything but Razorgrain and Tarberries. BTW Tarberries are only grown at The Slog and they cannot be planted elsewhere. As long as you do not piss off the farmers you can pick their produce with nothing said whether or not the farm is part of an established Settlement. You can cook whatever is on the menu at the cooking station provided you have the required ingredients for a particular menu item. You don't really have an option for fresh picked garden produce being cooked. I assume the Settlers are vegans and eat raw garden produce for the most part. They don't hunt or kill and process livestock. Although Diamond City has a butcher shop that sells butchered meat. (to only one player ???) and Bunker Hill only grows about 6 food. I have never noticed any food being grown in Goodneighbor.
Very interesting. I have been avoiding all packaged food, and all wild foods because I thought the radiation would hurt me. So I've been cooking all my food, but have been having a hell of a time keeping myself replenished. Not quite as bad as water, but close. So, thanks, I'll give raw veggies and fruit a try. (Though I can't bring myself to eat 200 year old Salisbury Steak. Yucko!)
The only food I eat is that giving me 2 rads or less, never more than 3. Salisbury steak gives you 7 rads. Don't eat food with a high return of HP and extras until you are no longer hungry. Whatever you eat while hungry give you nothing but does reduce your hunger level.
Didn't they change the nutritional value of food in an update or something? Because now, eating stuff like 1 Radstag Steak makes you properly fed even when being Famished. But you have to eat a lot of packaged food to do that.
i'm playin survival and i got that minutemen quest where u kill raiders at the assembly plant place and i was on a broken highway and i sniped 4 guys outside it all the way from a highway/bridge with my silenced pipe rifle(i found a silenced pistol and transferred it to a pipe rifle with a scope) and man that felt awesome! being able to get rid of 4 outside guards before having to storm in!
Only 4 ? You experienced the joy of Sneaky Sniper. You can get a bunch from there plus the turret at the front door. Then climb to the top of the Eastern stairway and get a few more. Then the 2 in the truck. When I go on top there are usually only 1 or 2 survivors outside of the building.
Awesome vid!! Although, right now I'm struggling to get easy purified water in Diamond City, rather than food. I'll check your other videos. Survival Mode is amazing!! SUBSCRIBED!
Some players play with the sensitivities of their real life instead of thinking of Survival. Especially when it comes to eating bugs, even though many people are alive today because they eat bugs. I saw a video about a place in San Francisco that raised crickets. They killed them, dried them, and ground them up into Cricket flour. Cricket flour was used at many high-end restaurants. But then, that's Californians for you.
I wasn't saying they were bad. I was just pointing out the five worst ones, compared to the five best ones. But they're still better than most packaged foods. But relative to the other vegetables, they are the worst ones.
But, why do you feel they are the worst? It seemed to me that corn, carrot, and mutfruit were basically the same. Mutfruit has 1 less rad but takes twice as many settlers to grow. I used carrots for food because the corn and mutfriut could be turned into adhesive. But you might know something I don't, which is why I'm asking.
Carrots are actually a lot harder to find, that's why I put them on the "bad" list. Most of the farms don't grow them, so you won't be seeing them as often as mutfruits and corn, unless you plant your own gardens full of them. And I needed a top 5 best and top 5 worst, and there are only 10 vegetables, so I picked carrots to be not as good as corn, for that reason. But just because it's on the "bad" list doesn't mean you shouldn't use them. The lists are there to basically show you which ones are more desirable and/or easiest to find.
Ok I got it, the bad part is they are harder to find. I did grow them at the settlements, so they were unlimited. I liked them because they were easy to pick and made small plants that didn't take much room. Plus I needed them for orange mentats anyway.
@@wneubert2 Mutfruit takes twice as many settlers to grow as corn ? Maybe if you are counting plants instead of food produced. There are 7 types of food that can be grown at all Settlements. Each Settler assigned to be a farmer can produce a max of 6 food. If you wanted your garden to produce 6 of each food type you would need 7 farmers. Mutfruit produces 6 food with 6 plants and 1 farmer. All the other 6 garden plant types can produce 6 food but requires 12 plants to do it, each with 1 farmer. Seven farmers, seven types of produce. Each type of produce producing 6 food. 78 plants producing 42 food.
Lol! So sorry, I know I'm late. It's taking a lot longer than I thought it would, and all kinds of other things are preventing me from working on it as often as I need to. But I'm in the process of editing it right now, it's just really time consuming. This episode in particular was a lot harder to make than the others. I will post it as soon as it's done, I just can't promise when that will be.
After all this time I still don't understand why Bethesda thinks caffeine, a psychoactive stimulant that suppresses your appetite.. makes you *hungry* We all know Bethesda doesn't necessarily understand how everything they put in their games works (.44 revolver out-damages a .50 cal rifle lmao) but it's usually not the literal opposite of what it's supposed to do
Hi , a question I noticed that chemist perk , biocom mess in armor chest AND wasteland survival guide perks from 2 magazines Buff heal hp from some foods AND drinks AND i noticed the same effects with party alcohol perk. Is posible check how much it can be with all consumibles in the game? I wanted to know their hidden potential AND look strategies.
I want to play the game on survival but there is something that holds me back. I cant manual save or quicksave. In my experience, my game crashes alot, at least 2-3 times during the time i play. If i could save my game, then i will play it on survival, but i dont wanna keep doing the same stuff all the time because of the game crashes.
To get where you can start healing takes 2 food items per hunger level. Two Wild Mutfruit does the same as 2 Grilled Radstag. I believe it is the number of food items not their value that counts at this point. Once your Hunger is cured, use regular cooked food to regain health just like always. The HP meter will fill slower but the same number of points will be healed. Eating more food WILL NOT fill the meter any faster.
I like your new survival mode videos. Very well laid out and presented. However I'm afraid I think you're wrong when you say that all food will satisfy your character the same amount. I'm pretty sure in the survival mode instructions it states that every item of food will satisfy your hunger according to the value amount (VAL) of each item. Which would unfortunately make your lists invalid. But then again I could be mistaken.
Well, I was thinking the same thing, but I did extensive testing of many different food items, and all of them were the same. I was disappointed to tell the truth. I was hoping some would be better than others. Maybe it's a glitch in my game? I don't know. I just know that in my game all food items satisfy the same amount.
+Sam Brown No, I'm pretty sure you're right. The information in the video is incorrect. I have eaten a grilled radstag when at the "hungry" level and I would be completely full. At the same "hungry" level I would have to eat 2 baked bloat flies (same with cooked radroach & molerat) to acquire the "peckish" level and 2 more to be sated. Foods are not created equal.
Like I said, the information in my video is from my own in-game testing, and perhaps my game is bugged. But for sure in my game the different foods cured hunger at the same levels. I tested it over and over with all kinds of foods just to be sure, since when I initially discovered it I was disappointed, and wanted to make sure it wasn't a fluke. But maybe it is just an overall fluke in my game. I'm curious if anyone else is experiencing it too.
Oh my gosh, you're right! Oh wow, I didn't even notice! Thank you for pointing it out, I'll put an annotation in the video. I think my mind was still processing the thirst video, which does modify your Intelligence.
So glad to hear it! I'm making the next episode right now, should be done very soon. They're somewhat time consuming to make, so I can't get them out as quickly as I'd like. There are three episodes yet to come. Next one is on managing your health and fitness.
The power poles north and south of Abernathy each have radstags. Dogs and bugs are everywhere. 3 Bramin hang out between the road and railroad northeast of Starlight Drive-in (don't go too far NE or you will find a nest of feral ghouls at Bedford Station). Push come to shove, you can buy food from any vendor.
Really like the video except your opinion that food buffs don’t apply to survival. Like what?!? I didn’t care about food buffs until I started playing survival.
I read that too. But when I did extensive testing it wasn't true. At least in my game it wasn't. I tested all kinds of food, and they all seemed to have the same value. Maybe it's a glitch, I don't know.
My tip for food, is as soon as you can head on south from Sanctuary to the Sunshine Tidings CO-OP. You'll have to deal with a few ghouls but once clear there is a wasteland survival magazine you can pick up in the room with the loot chest. It's just on the floor near the chest. The perk it gives you gives you double meat from any animal you kill. You can then cook it and have more than enough rad free food to stave off starvation, and a number of great buffs from the food too.
Beardus Maximus yeah I found it a while back before I was on survival and since I’m on survival to it is helpful
2 years later and I find this as a VERY helpful tip. Thank you!
Thanks! That will be my next task.
noodles cup, vegetable soap, refreshing beverage stim pack that all you need to survive covers everything.
Thanks Wasteland Dovahkiin for this excellent highly detailed series with tons of well structured info not found anywhere else.
Noodle soup.Works to cure thristy and food.Easy to make and .5 weight.Pretty easy imo
You find it harder to manage your thirst? In the first settlement when you build one purifier it will produce plenty of water. Also hoarding empty bottles and filling them from a simple pump in your settlement will provide tons of clean water. Every time you are near a settlement you can drink directly from the pump as well. Usually the routine is you sleep to save, drink from a pump to full and you head out. I find it harder to have enough food because the crops you grow are irradiated and clean food doesnt come free. Bethesda should've added some cooking recipes for vegetable soups with clean water and the crops you grow in my opinion. You should have a good reason to invest in your settlement after all.
If you plant a small garden at each settlement and have at least one settler there, you will have food to pick every time you visit the settlement. Any extra crops and/or pure water will be in the workshop and should be removed to yourself or a container at every visit as workshop stored food and water attracts attackers.
Build a Food Processor and you can create clean food easily.
3 Tato + 1 Cloth will get you Preserved Instamash
1 Carrot + 1 Razorgrain + 1 Purified Water + 1 Plastic will get you (Clean) Blamco Mac-n-Cheese
The first is super cheap to make, the second only weighs 0.1 instead of 0.5 like most foods.
Wild Mutfruit also only weighs 0.1 and is common around Sanctuary to build up and don't have many Rads (only 2).
Of course, since all your bottles are going to dirty water, you can combine them with Razorgrain to make noodles (which are food and water, making them a great healing item, since every time you use one to cure hp or one status, they reset the timer(s) for the other status(es)).
Running down the Sunshine Co-op also nets you the magazine that doubles the meat from most critters. That is very helpful for producing more food on the go (cook stations are common across the entire map).
You are a godsend. Thank you.
I've heard that survival mode greatly reduces the rate at which new monsters respawn. This seems to have affected my hunting as I don't find as many molerats and delicious wild dogs roaming around. I need to hunt further and further away.
Also, since eating doesn't give you hit points back, the Pip Boy will show 0 HP for each food item. What I've noticed is that the message "You are properly fed" is slightly delayed after eating but the Pip Boy health values change instantly. So watching that number as you munch down on Mutt Chops will show you exactly when you can stop eating. I used to wait for the message and tended to over eat and waste food. This is true with water as well.
If you run across any wild food, pick it. You can eat that to reduce hunger while your HP is not increasing. As soon as you are no longer hungry, eat cooked food to regain lost HP.
“You succumb to a dark hunger”
at 4:47 I shout SPEAR! dogmeat went WWE on that ghoul! lol
Great series - great tips. After an extensive play on normal difficulty with a good character, I just decided what the hell and started a new no-going-back-Survival-mode character and this is helping me a lot. Thanks!
I started playing FO4 yesterday and on survival mode since the beginning.... and these tips are still precious! tks.
I just started a Survival playthrough and stumbled across your channel, this was a great series and really helped me come up with a good system for managing my thirst! ( that any empty bottle works especially good little tip, i hadnt been looting the empty beer bottles lol). anyway, thanks!
Good info. I didn't realize all foods sated the same amount of hunger. I love the way you present the top 5 foods by setting them on tables in the game.
very light backpack:
4 iguana on a stick ou squirrel
2 mut
2 corn
6-10 purified water
If that is all you carry, you must run around naked with no weapons and pick up no loot.
Great video! I never had issues with finding raw meat to cook almost every where you go there's animals to kill had more issues with water until i found out you can fill beer bottles with water from the well. i normally carry 15 purified water 2 ragstag 4 molerat chunks and 4 mutt chops at the least. And if you find the magazine that gives you extra meat from dead animals it helps a lot.
Watched your videos on both hunger and thirst. I'm pretty much done a very thorough and long (and only) playthrough on survival mode and after some testing, my #1 food/drink item is Noodle Cup. When I get the "parched" notification, I eat a single noodle cup and it clears the thirst. By doing this, I would *never* get the hunger notification. Thirst occurs more frequently than hunger, so you're always ahead of your hunger this way.
Also, should you get the hunger notification, NOT all foods are created equal. Some will satisfy that hunger in a single shot (with no healing or special effects), such as a steak, while mutt chops will take two to clear the hunger. For that reason, I also carried some light food with me (e.g., iguana or squirrel) just in case I was late in eating my noodle cup and also got a hunger. Then I would take a noodle cup and a small snack.
If you have to take medicine, you will get thirsty. For that, I carry some purified water to cut some of the thirst, plus I down a noodle cup for the rest (two drinks required to clear "thirsty" from antibiotics or rad-x).
This plan works best if you are doing some settlements. Once I have them up and running, I move most or allfood production over to Razorgrain. You don't need more than the population, but you will then have to harvest the grain yourself whenever you pass through that settlement. Collect bottles like an alcoholic hoarder and fill them with DIRTY water only. You can actually make purified water at a settlement (as shown in video), plus purified water is much more readily found as loot. Bottles are for dirty water (using my system) except for the early game, where you won't have enough razorgrain anyway.
I like collecting the ingredients for the lightest food with the best hunger satisfaction - I think its Iguana Sticks as far as I can tell - and only eating them when I'm away from another food source like a settlement
On my survival playthough I have used Mutfruit as my only food source for so long. Mutfruit weighs only 0.1 pounds so you can carry insane amounts of it. Unfortunately Mutfruit has radiation but that can be alleviated by rank 3 of the Lead Belly perk.
Just reached level 67 on my survival playthough the beginning is aggravating but late game you turn into a tank just like normal mode.
I did this too, but I never went for lead belly because the radiation was so minor. It takes 10 rads to lower your health by 1, so it was never enough to matter. I also built decontamination arches at my settlements because I refused to take radaway due to it's negatives.
In regular mode, melons are a little pointless. In survival mode, melons are great for eating around your base when crafting, building, whatever. They supply you with one serving of food and one serving of hydration. They hit you with some rads, but by the mid game you should have a decontamination arch, so its trivial. I keep a small patch of 5 melon plants in my main base for snacking. Not so great to carry with you, since they're 1 pound apiece, but it doesn't matter when you're at your base and they spare you having to eat more weight efficient food and drink when you're at home.
Thats amazing tutorials and well presented. Thanks for that Survival Legend =]
I like the feature but the timespanns are insane ...
Thank U!
Thanks for making this video. I've been hauling around radstag steaks this whole time and throwing away gum drops. (Face palm.)
Really well done--I've been trying to get to a lighter "survival kit" on my characters, but I usually just end up carrying 70 purified water and a ton of food (extra capacity from Lone Wanderer). Pack rat is real! :P
I have found that Cram is twice as effective as raw produce, such as corn or mutfruit. I haven't gotten sick from cram yet. I've tried 4 files each getting to level 10-15 each, but I had other problems with those before deleting them.
In my game Cram (and any other kind of food) had the same values as raw produce. I did quite a lot of testing too. Weird. I'm curious how you went about testing it. I would just eat different foods when I was in the first stage of hunger, which is Peckish. I always did it immediately after entering that stage too, so my hunger was always at the exact same level each time. No matter what I ate, it always took two food items to satisfy my hunger when peckish. Didn't matter if it was mutfruit or Cram or anything else.
Wasteland Dovahkiin I'm playing on XboxOne and it was just something I noticed through normal gameplay.
Obviously it has been a very long time, but yes, I play Survival pretty much exclusively now when I play FO4 (on Playstation 4) and I have also noticed Cram seems to bring me back from peckish to sated with just one can - I haven't really tried it on any other levels of hunger as I try not to let it ever drop below peckish, so I can't say if it is universally twice as effective or only works to get from Peckish to sated, but, despite the weight and radiation, it's probably my go to pre-war food (partly because I am one of those weirdos who likes its real world equivalent, spam...lol). Of course you could argue that 2 gum drops does exactly the same job for less weight, and you'd be absolutely right, however playing for the immersion factor, which is why I enjoy Survival, it just feels more legitimate to ward off hunger with a can of cram than a couple of packets of sweets.
@@TheGilgameshepic There you go, thinking. What is this world coming to ?
The advice is good but not where to get food. What about how to farm? Can't you farm in this game and cook whatever you grow?
Settlers do the farming, not you. You plant the crops. Farmers maintain the crops. Harvesting is automatic daily except what you harvest. The auto harvest also deducts what the Settlers eat and store the remainder in the Workshop. (Except in my Sanctuary Workshop. It only stores pure water.)
You assign the job of farming to Settlers. Farmers will care for 6 food items, which means two plants to produce one food except for Mutfruit which produces 1 food per plant. I like to plant 6 of each of the 7 different food types. This needs only 4 farmers and produces 24 food per game day.
Anytime I go to a Settlement I remove all food and water in the Workshop, then store it in a nearby container. (I use red toolboxes.) I do this because a lot of food and/or pure water stored in the Workshop attracts attackers. (Actually, it just increases the odds the Settlement will be attacked. The norm is a 2% chance per game day.)
Where to get the food ? The manned farms are raising their favorite crop of food. Some have only 1 food type, like Tenpines Bluff, growing only tatos. But Grey Gardens grows everything but Razorgrain and Tarberries. BTW Tarberries are only grown at The Slog and they cannot be planted elsewhere. As long as you do not piss off the farmers you can pick their produce with nothing said whether or not the farm is part of an established Settlement.
You can cook whatever is on the menu at the cooking station provided you have the required ingredients for a particular menu item. You don't really have an option for fresh picked garden produce being cooked. I assume the Settlers are vegans and eat raw garden produce for the most part. They don't hunt or kill and process livestock. Although Diamond City has a butcher shop that sells butchered meat. (to only one player ???) and Bunker Hill only grows about 6 food. I have never noticed any food being grown in Goodneighbor.
Nice video!!! Found myself a new survival guru!
Thank You for making the vid... Looking forward to Ep.4
Very interesting. I have been avoiding all packaged food, and all wild foods because I thought the radiation would hurt me. So I've been cooking all my food, but have been having a hell of a time keeping myself replenished. Not quite as bad as water, but close. So, thanks, I'll give raw veggies and fruit a try. (Though I can't bring myself to eat 200 year old Salisbury Steak. Yucko!)
The only food I eat is that giving me 2 rads or less, never more than 3. Salisbury steak gives you 7 rads. Don't eat food with a high return of HP and extras until you are no longer hungry. Whatever you eat while hungry give you nothing but does reduce your hunger level.
Didn't they change the nutritional value of food in an update or something? Because now, eating stuff like 1 Radstag Steak makes you properly fed even when being Famished. But you have to eat a lot of packaged food to do that.
Hmmm. I didn't know that. Thanks.
A very well put together, presented and informative video. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! :)
4:46 but that takedown tho
You are SAYING hunger modifies Intelligence but the SCREEN is saying hunger modifies Endurance.
thanks for all the work you are doing for these Vids :)
i'm playin survival and i got that minutemen quest where u kill raiders at the assembly plant place and i was on a broken highway and i sniped 4 guys outside it all the way from a highway/bridge with my silenced pipe rifle(i found a silenced pistol and transferred it to a pipe rifle with a scope) and man that felt awesome! being able to get rid of 4 outside guards before having to storm in!
Only 4 ? You experienced the joy of Sneaky Sniper. You can get a bunch from there plus the turret at the front door. Then climb to the top of the Eastern stairway and get a few more. Then the 2 in the truck. When I go on top there are usually only 1 or 2 survivors outside of the building.
Awesome vid!! Although, right now I'm struggling to get easy purified water in Diamond City, rather than food. I'll check your other videos. Survival Mode is amazing!! SUBSCRIBED!
In Diamond City I found I need to bring my own pure water supply, or I have to buy it.
Or after you get Home Plate you can build a fountain or sink for pure water.
What a great series!
Food is harder to come by 😂for me
Some players play with the sensitivities of their real life instead of thinking of Survival. Especially when it comes to eating bugs, even though many people are alive today because they eat bugs. I saw a video about a place in San Francisco that raised crickets. They killed them, dried them, and ground them up into Cricket flour. Cricket flour was used at many high-end restaurants. But then, that's Californians for you.
Why were carrots on the "bad" list, they only weigh 0.1 and have 3 rads, the same as corn?
I wasn't saying they were bad. I was just pointing out the five worst ones, compared to the five best ones. But they're still better than most packaged foods. But relative to the other vegetables, they are the worst ones.
But, why do you feel they are the worst? It seemed to me that corn, carrot, and mutfruit were basically the same. Mutfruit has 1 less rad but takes twice as many settlers to grow. I used carrots for food because the corn and mutfriut could be turned into adhesive.
But you might know something I don't, which is why I'm asking.
Carrots are actually a lot harder to find, that's why I put them on the "bad" list. Most of the farms don't grow them, so you won't be seeing them as often as mutfruits and corn, unless you plant your own gardens full of them. And I needed a top 5 best and top 5 worst, and there are only 10 vegetables, so I picked carrots to be not as good as corn, for that reason. But just because it's on the "bad" list doesn't mean you shouldn't use them. The lists are there to basically show you which ones are more desirable and/or easiest to find.
Ok I got it, the bad part is they are harder to find. I did grow them at the settlements, so they were unlimited. I liked them because they were easy to pick and made small plants that didn't take much room. Plus I needed them for orange mentats anyway.
@@wneubert2 Mutfruit takes twice as many settlers to grow as corn ? Maybe if you are counting plants instead of food produced. There are 7 types of food that can be grown at all Settlements. Each Settler assigned to be a farmer can produce a max of 6 food. If you wanted your garden to produce 6 of each food type you would need 7 farmers. Mutfruit produces 6 food with 6 plants and 1 farmer. All the other 6 garden plant types can produce 6 food but requires 12 plants to do it, each with 1 farmer. Seven farmers, seven types of produce. Each type of produce producing 6 food. 78 plants producing 42 food.
I really like this series, please keep it up :D You've also gained a subscriber!
Thank you! New episode coming in the next day or two. Almost finished with it.
Tick, tock. ;)
Lol! So sorry, I know I'm late. It's taking a lot longer than I thought it would, and all kinds of other things are preventing me from working on it as often as I need to. But I'm in the process of editing it right now, it's just really time consuming. This episode in particular was a lot harder to make than the others. I will post it as soon as it's done, I just can't promise when that will be.
+Wasteland Dovahkiin I totally understand, life gets in the way : ) I can't wait :D
This really help me on my Nuka world dlc character
After all this time I still don't understand why Bethesda thinks caffeine, a psychoactive stimulant that suppresses your appetite.. makes you *hungry*
We all know Bethesda doesn't necessarily understand how everything they put in their games works (.44 revolver out-damages a .50 cal rifle lmao) but it's usually not the literal opposite of what it's supposed to do
0:55 -1 endurance not intelligence
Hello, does hunger and thirst exist in normal mode?
No. You just have to pay attention to your health bar and eat and/or drink to top it off. (or use a Stimpak)
Hi , a question
I noticed that chemist perk , biocom mess in armor chest AND wasteland survival guide perks from 2 magazines Buff heal hp from some foods AND drinks AND i noticed the same effects with party alcohol perk.
Is posible check how much it can be with all consumibles in the game?
I wanted to know their hidden potential AND look strategies.
very helpful, thanks!
Iguana bits are made of people...
Only people who played Fallout 2 know that. LOL.
I want to play the game on survival but there is something that holds me back. I cant manual save or quicksave. In my experience, my game crashes alot, at least 2-3 times during the time i play. If i could save my game, then i will play it on survival, but i dont wanna keep doing the same stuff all the time because of the game crashes.
Morten Lejel there are some mods that add saving to survival mode, sorry but i dont know which ones specifically
Morten Lejel (late reply) just search survival save
Not intelligence endurance
Wait you can get hungry in this game on survival
Definitely.
Iguana on a stick is human meat
damn helpful!
just found your chanel love the vids
Whens the carry weight vid?
When she gets it done. Real life conflicts sometimes to foul up any schedule.
Nice. Some outdated but still nice. Will you do a series on Fallout 76, since that will be survival mode all over?
I read on a loading screen that a food items value determines how well it sates your hunger, is this then incorrect?
To get where you can start healing takes 2 food items per hunger level. Two Wild Mutfruit does the same as 2 Grilled Radstag. I believe it is the number of food items not their value that counts at this point. Once your Hunger is cured, use regular cooked food to regain health just like always. The HP meter will fill slower but the same number of points will be healed. Eating more food WILL NOT fill the meter any faster.
I like your new survival mode videos. Very well laid out and presented.
However I'm afraid I think you're wrong when you say that all food will satisfy your character the same amount. I'm pretty sure in the survival mode instructions it states that every item of food will satisfy your hunger according to the value amount (VAL) of each item. Which would unfortunately make your lists invalid.
But then again I could be mistaken.
Well, I was thinking the same thing, but I did extensive testing of many different food items, and all of them were the same. I was disappointed to tell the truth. I was hoping some would be better than others. Maybe it's a glitch in my game? I don't know. I just know that in my game all food items satisfy the same amount.
+Wasteland Dovahkiin Fair enough. I've never tried it personally. I just assumed it worked. I'll try later.
+Sam Brown No, I'm pretty sure you're right. The information in the video is incorrect. I have eaten a grilled radstag when at the "hungry" level and I would be completely full. At the same "hungry" level I would have to eat 2 baked bloat flies (same with cooked radroach & molerat) to acquire the "peckish" level and 2 more to be sated.
Foods are not created equal.
Like I said, the information in my video is from my own in-game testing, and perhaps my game is bugged. But for sure in my game the different foods cured hunger at the same levels. I tested it over and over with all kinds of foods just to be sure, since when I initially discovered it I was disappointed, and wanted to make sure it wasn't a fluke. But maybe it is just an overall fluke in my game. I'm curious if anyone else is experiencing it too.
There are instructions ?
Noodle Cup 🍜 > All.
Necro post ftw
0:51 I'm sure you meant to say minus one endurance not intelligence lol
and 1:09
Oh my gosh, you're right! Oh wow, I didn't even notice! Thank you for pointing it out, I'll put an annotation in the video. I think my mind was still processing the thirst video, which does modify your Intelligence.
+Wasteland Dovahkiin lol btw soups can also fill your hunger and thirst and weigh less than melons
I mentioned soups in my video on thirst, so I decided not to repeat myself ;) Of course, I also mentioned melons in that video. Oh well.
If you eat when you're not hungry, does that delay the point at which you get Peckish? It doesn't seem so but I've never done any tests.
I've never done one either. That's a good point though, I never thought to test that one.
It seems to. As does drinking from a pump before leaving a settlement.
I think it may reset the timer.
This series helped convince me to finally try out survival mode (/^▽^)/ I hope you make more videos like this soon!
So glad to hear it! I'm making the next episode right now, should be done very soon. They're somewhat time consuming to make, so I can't get them out as quickly as I'd like. There are three episodes yet to come. Next one is on managing your health and fitness.
Oh, I hope I didn't sound impatient D: I'm very excited for it though! Managing my health in game is tough so I'm sure it'll be helpful
You sounded eager, not impatient ;) I love eagerness :)
@@Lexy630 Health management is the toughest part for me.
xD you went intelligence twice , instead of endurance
Is there a mod to fix the food intake comparison?
What about food perks as in cannibalism perk
I've never taken that perk nor have I seen any comments along the line you are asking about.
Cram is the best lol!
Oh, really ??
who eats bubblegum if you think about it😂😂😂
Every kid whoever chewed gum has swallowed it at one time or another. I swallowed a lot when the teacher came thru the door.
Pretty sure you should have more subs than you do. Good work
are those food gluten free?
All but the razorgrain.
Did she say -1 intelligence for pecking then the next -2 ? 🤨
Yes, but she misspoke. It should be Endurance.
I’m going to play my first survival play though of fallout 4 any good places for food?
The power poles north and south of Abernathy each have radstags. Dogs and bugs are everywhere. 3 Bramin hang out between the road and railroad northeast of Starlight Drive-in (don't go too far NE or you will find a nest of feral ghouls at Bedford Station). Push come to shove, you can buy food from any vendor.
A few more Bramin hang out just North of Finch Farm. One Bramin hangs out South of County Crossing. etc, etc.
Insta Mash!
- int ? It endurance dude
Really like the video except your opinion that food buffs don’t apply to survival. Like what?!? I didn’t care about food buffs until I started playing survival.
i dont understand why would you lose luck when being hungry...
It is unfortunate being unable to find food :/
But gaining luck for wearing a specific hat makes sense to you?
Raidoton
kinda like a lucky charm
Ummmmm end stands for endurance not int which is intelligence wasnt gonna say anything but you dod it 2 times in a row lol
Typos happen dod.
Mutefruit
just found your chanel love the vids
I read on a loading screen that a food items value determines how well it sates your hunger, is this then incorrect?
I read that too. But when I did extensive testing it wasn't true. At least in my game it wasn't. I tested all kinds of food, and they all seemed to have the same value. Maybe it's a glitch, I don't know.
First lesson. Never believe anything Bethesda tells you.