I think that they made it too easy to get food on singleplayer survival. U can get it from pigs, cows, chickens, trees, seeds, mushrooms, fishing, zombies and spiders (I guess) and more. Like why not just make the game more challenging and make it just pigs and fishing and farming or something? Right?
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Well, it's not that easy to get it from those things.
Leaves have a 1/200 chance of dropping an apple, which doesn't heal all that much.
Pigs, cows, and chickens aren't extremely common in some maps and biomes.
Fishing requires string which you need to get from killing spiders (which makes you hungry) and it's a tad boring.
And you shouldn't really eat rotten flesh or spider eyes.
I wouldn't consider Spider Eye or Rotten Flesh being a food item.
While it's consumable it does poison the player and cause damage.
Not a lot of people have access to all of these foods.
It takes a bit for someone to get the string to make a fishing pole.
Apples don't fall commonly sometimes so they aren't reliable and seeds/wheat/watermelon take awhile to grow.
There are really only cows, pigs, chickens and the occasional mushroom.
You don't have to use all of these food resources, it's not mandatory.
Just use whatever you like, make it as challenging as you want.
I've started many worlds where there wasn't a single edible animal in sight. I've had to rush to make a house and a wheat farm. By that time, I've usually starved at least once from all the going to and fro trying to get it done before night.
Tell me there's too much food when you start in the middle of a massive desert. :wink.gif:
Personally, I think food should be more common (more sources) and that we should have to drink and sleep to survive. Getting food should be as easy as smelting.
Any sustainable source of food takes a lot of work to set up. Now that it's possible to drive the cows and pigs to extinction in your area, I think it's fine the way it is. Plus, it would be kind of lame if you had to CONSTANTLY search for food and eat, rather than getting it taken care of in a smart way and not really having to worry about it as long as you're close to home.
It's good. OP, have you EVER played a hardcore world? :tongue.gif: You double tap "w" once and your hunger meter is suddenly rock bottom... (exaggeration, but it's scary. You can die easily on your first night lacking food)
As long as there is water, you'll be able to get more than enough food to keep yourself alive until you have whatever kind of farm you prefer going automatically. You're not going to die in the first day unless you spend it sprinting. When night comes, kill a spider or two, make a fishing rod, and there you go. Fishing is SEVERELY underestimated.
In other words, getting food is easy as hell, but I'll still have to agree with opaaufkoka up there. It's not the getting of it that's the challenge, it's planning around having enough of it at all times. You'll be churning through your stockpile quickly enough in PvP situations, that's for sure.
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Well, it's not that easy to get it from those things.
Leaves have a 1/200 chance of dropping an apple, which doesn't heal all that much.
Pigs, cows, and chickens aren't extremely common in some maps and biomes.
Fishing requires string which you need to get from killing spiders (which makes you hungry) and it's a tad boring.
And you shouldn't really eat rotten flesh or spider eyes.
Apples: Find a forest, cut down five(ish) oak trees, leave, and come back five minutes later. Almost always at least one apple and twenty saplings.
Animals: Start a farm, and breed them using wheat. It takes time, but it's worth it.
Fishing: It does take string, but if you can live without a bow for a little while it's a good investment.
Mob Food Drops: Only if you're about to die.
Then of course there's mushrooms. Find a pine forest, and you'll find mushrooms. Get one of each type, invest a bone for bone meal, then get a Huge Mushroom. Destroy it and you get more mushrooms (I got a dozen off a single huge red mushroom). Invest three planks for bowls (reusable!) and add the mushrooms. As long as you don't use up your mushroom stock it's very reliable. The only problem: it doesn't stack.
That's unusual for me! I've never starved to death on minecraft survival!
Me neither. It's very uncommon, that is if you know what you're doing.
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The bottom line: Really, food is pretty common, but the food bar evens the scope out. Food was very rare before they added the food bar in Beta 1.8. Now it really doesn't matter. If you need help learning about food (or building the aforementioned animal farm) check out paulsoaresjr's excellent tutorial LP on YouTube, available here.
The only time I ever had problems with finding food was when I spawned a world where I was in a taiga biome. There were a zillion dogs and sheep, and nothing more for miles. Other than that, food has been pretty easy to find.
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It's hard enough in survival for the for couple nights without starving. Try starting up on a survival SERVER, it's almost impossible if there's more than 10 people on the server.
Well, it's not that easy to get it from those things.
Leaves have a 1/200 chance of dropping an apple, which doesn't heal all that much.
Pigs, cows, and chickens aren't extremely common in some maps and biomes.
Fishing requires string which you need to get from killing spiders (which makes you hungry) and it's a tad boring.
And you shouldn't really eat rotten flesh or spider eyes.
Rotten flesh. from what ive seen, nearly never poisons you, its only happened to me once the 1000 times ive eaten it, yes it makes u hungry faster, but atleast u live longer at all...
Leaves have a 1/200 chance of dropping an apple, which doesn't heal all that much.
Pigs, cows, and chickens aren't extremely common in some maps and biomes.
Fishing requires string which you need to get from killing spiders (which makes you hungry) and it's a tad boring.
And you shouldn't really eat rotten flesh or spider eyes.
While it's consumable it does poison the player and cause damage.
Not a lot of people have access to all of these foods.
It takes a bit for someone to get the string to make a fishing pole.
Apples don't fall commonly sometimes so they aren't reliable and seeds/wheat/watermelon take awhile to grow.
There are really only cows, pigs, chickens and the occasional mushroom.
You don't have to use all of these food resources, it's not mandatory.
Just use whatever you like, make it as challenging as you want.
That's unusual for me! I've never starved to death on minecraft survival!
Personally, I think food should be more common (more sources) and that we should have to drink and sleep to survive. Getting food should be as easy as smelting.
I think it's balanced.
In other words, getting food is easy as hell, but I'll still have to agree with opaaufkoka up there. It's not the getting of it that's the challenge, it's planning around having enough of it at all times. You'll be churning through your stockpile quickly enough in PvP situations, that's for sure.
Odd. I've found tons of cows in the jungle (the seed is indianajones)
Apples: Find a forest, cut down five(ish) oak trees, leave, and come back five minutes later. Almost always at least one apple and twenty saplings.
Animals: Start a farm, and breed them using wheat. It takes time, but it's worth it.
Fishing: It does take string, but if you can live without a bow for a little while it's a good investment.
Mob Food Drops: Only if you're about to die.
Then of course there's mushrooms. Find a pine forest, and you'll find mushrooms. Get one of each type, invest a bone for bone meal, then get a Huge Mushroom. Destroy it and you get more mushrooms (I got a dozen off a single huge red mushroom). Invest three planks for bowls (reusable!) and add the mushrooms. As long as you don't use up your mushroom stock it's very reliable. The only problem: it doesn't stack.
Me neither. It's very uncommon, that is if you know what you're doing.
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The bottom line: Really, food is pretty common, but the food bar evens the scope out. Food was very rare before they added the food bar in Beta 1.8. Now it really doesn't matter. If you need help learning about food (or building the aforementioned animal farm) check out paulsoaresjr's excellent tutorial LP on YouTube, available here.
EDIT: 300 posts, g'night.
Really? :dry.gif: The point of survival is to survive, not to have god mode and flying..
Rotten flesh. from what ive seen, nearly never poisons you, its only happened to me once the 1000 times ive eaten it, yes it makes u hungry faster, but atleast u live longer at all...