Wilson goes vegetarian

[hotflungwok]

So I started a new game over the weekend, and decided to adhere to some arbitrary restriction to make it harder.  I went with vegetarianism: Wilson cannot eat meat of any kind or anything with meat as an ingredient.  After debating about it I decided to skip mandrakes and leafy meat too, just in case.

 

The first winter was the hardest.  I ended up having to knock over bee hives for honey to make the last few days.  Once I got a decent number of farms and some hives going it got a lot easier.  Now I have something like 40 farms and 2 dozen crock pots full of pumpkin cookies  & dragonfruit pie.

 

I discovered that plain corn is a good traveling food, it's much more filling that I thought.  I also discovered that while there are only a few vegetarian crock pot recipes, several of them yield less that the total of the original ingredients combined and so were useful only as a way to recover stale food.

 

The biggest thing I noticed is that since I had no use for meat, there was no reason to do a lot of the things I used to in previous games.  No more pushing merms into tentacles, baiting frogs into traps, catching rabbits, even hunting the koalaphant.  Honestly, it made it kind of boring.  I'm on day 150something, and I've got the upper world tamed, and I'm almost done with the first cave & ruins.  There really isn't a lot left to do. 

 

So do all restrictions cause this?  Does missing out on portions of the game cuz they don't benefit you in any way make a game become boring faster?

[HoneyHam]

Now do it meat only. No fruits or veggies.

*Maxwell Head*

JUST DO IT.

Edit: Leafy Meat and Honey, you can eat those.

[the truthseeker]

Hmm, did you also see on your vegetarian run about feeding stale produce to the bird in a birdcage for more seeds/specific seeds?

 

 

And yeah, TMHH's rightL it's now time for a carnivore only run! To be fair, I'd allow the picking of non-meat foods to use at lures, but no EATING non-meat items. I'm not sure 100%, but I WOULD allow crock pot foods that had produce in them that clearly made meat foods (Honey ham, Pierogis, etc.), just no plant-based foods only.  

[Cynical Cynicist]

Honey.

[hotflungwok]

Actually I thought about the carnivore thing before, and I think it would be easier than vegetarian.  During winter, there's still rabbits and koalphants and merms and stuff to get food from, but nothing grows.  The only change winter makes for a carnivore is no more frogs from ponds, but a vegetarian who doesn't plan ahead is screwed.

[Neosaurus]

Actually I thought about the carnivore thing before, and I think it would be easier than vegetarian.  During winter, there's still rabbits and koalphants and merms and stuff to get food from, but nothing grows.  The only change winter makes for a carnivore is no more frogs from ponds, but a vegetarian who doesn't plan ahead is screwed.

Prove it

[the truthseeker]

Just live on meat and ONLY meat then if it's "too easy" Absolutely nothing else to eat. If really strict not even using any non-meat foods for ANYTHING. 

[hotflungwok]

Alright then.

 

I started a new game, Wilson is now a carnivore.  Nothing that isn't some form of meat.  I'm still debating on eggs, but I'm leaning toward no. 

 

Winter is just about to start.  I havent found any beefalo yet so I'm gonna be wearing rabbits for a while.

 

I set up a base near some grasslands and put traps on every rabbit hole there.  I also set up some traps around a few nearby frog ponds.  I would alternate between the two so as not to anger krampus too soon.  Smack a frog, run for the traps, pick up, repeat.  Once I found some spiders I was able to make a fishing pole.  I have 8 crock pots full of meatballs, and after driving a koalaphant into a tallbird nest, 10 full drying racks.  I don't think I'm going to have too much trouble getting through winter.

 

If you're not picking up the seeds the birds drop they add up quickly.  I think going meat only is going to be a bit rougher than I thought because I won't be able to eat mushrooms.  No fish sticks either.  Meatballs and stew looks like the only recipes I'm going to be able to use. 

 

I'm going to explore over the winter and see if I cant bring back some pig houses to set up near the frogs.  Finding beefalo would be nice too.

[the truthseeker]

If it's slowing down the game literally, you can pick up (but not use) the seeds and drop them in some neat pile. 

[hotflungwok]

So I survived the winter pretty easily.  There was one close call which made me realize that meat only means it really hard to scavenge for food out in the wilderness. 

 

I've always used mushrooms as an easy sanity fix, but now since I can't use them I need something else.  Jerky isn't bad, but I can't keep eating it all the time.  I can pick flowers, but can't eat them.   I need to make a tent. 

 

Once I get a few more things set up that will be pretty much it.  There's really only a few things to worry about at this point, like keeping away from bunnymen.

 

Maybe I'll the nomad thing next.

[Deacon_Blue]

The nomad thing is significantly easier than veggies or meat only, at least I have to assume so. The nomad challenge is pretty easy if you stockpile enough resources to prototype all survival staples in one night, then use them at your leisure as you need/have resources. I stopped after the second winter on my world.

[the truthseeker]

The nomad thing is significantly easier than veggies or meat only, at least I have to assume so. The nomad challenge is pretty easy if you stockpile enough resources to prototype all survival staples in one night, then use them at your leisure as you need/have resources. I stopped after the second winter on my world.

I quit after my fourth cycle myself.