Sons of the Forest How To Get Food & Eat it

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One of the key survival traits you will need to satisfy in the horror survival game is to eat food to satiate your hunger. The game does not offer much help or advice on all the ways you can satisfy your hunger meter, so follow this brief guide to ensure you stay well-fed and ready to take on cannibals.

There are several ways to obtain food, available even early in your adventure, these include:

It can be very difficult to catch up to a squirrel or rabbit when you are only wielding your starting kit's hatchet or tactical knife. Crafting a spear and using it to hunt down animals will make for a much easier task than your starter gear.

Spears can easily be crafted with just a few ingredients that are readily available in the wild:

Once you have your spear crafted, you can equip it within your inventory. The spear has a much farther reach than the other tools, which will aid in your accuracy against fast animals. It can also be used to catch fish in the water. You can eat the meat raw by opening your inventory and consuming it, or you can now cook the meat.

Hold theright mouse button to aim,then tap the left mouse button to launch and throw the spear. If you do this from afar, you should be able to easily take down an animal and take its meat.

If you've successfully hunted animals and now have raw meat, you will fill your hunger meter much more efficiently by cooking the meat before eating it. Go to your campfire and aim the camera at the fire. Hold the interact key and a subset of your inventory will come up.

Select the raw meat from the inventory and it will become cooked after about 30 seconds. See the image above for an example of a rabbit's cooked (browned) meat on the fire. You can press the interact key once to put