Meat

Consumable
Max Carried: 7
Health: Low-Moderate
Nutrition: Moderate
Stamina: Low

Meat from animals can be cooked or dried, then eaten to fill half the player’s nutrition bar and a quarter of their health bar. Raw meat doesn’t provide as many benefits. Dried meat doesn’t spoil, but raw and cooked meat spoils in a couple of days. Upon consuming, nutrition is granted immediately, while healing takes time and can be stopped if damage is taken.

Where to Find Meat

Meat can be found by hunting animals and butchering their corpses. After you have killed an animal, approach its corpse and hold / / to butcher it. Larger animals, like elk, will provide more meat; smaller animals, like birds and rabbits, will provide less meat.

How to Cook Meat

Meat can be cooked over a fire; you can have Kelvin make you a fire, or you can equip sticks and do it yourself (by looking at the ground and pressing / twice then holding / ). After you have a fire, approach it and hold /, then select the meat and place it around the fire. You will want to take it off the fire after you see it turn colors, otherwise it will burn. Rotten meat can also be cooked to turn it into (or back into) cooked meat.

How to Dry Meat

Meat can be dried by using a drying rack, which can be built with 13 sticks in the classic building mode (photo in guidebook). You can only dry raw meat, not cooked or rotten meat. Dry meat will not spoil, making it a great solution to hunger while out exploring.