food drops and the bow

the bow really stinks as it currently is, either it needs to be improved (primarily by getting rid of the 'charge' system) dramatically or make it so that meat can drop from melee kills as well

 

It's only a wooden bow you can't expect it to one shot everything

 

On a mac every time I try and shoot the bow my client closes ='(

 

Are you aware, that you get quite damage boost, if you release the arrow at the right time?

 

thats not what I'm saying, the way in which the firing functions is just tedious and annoying. The starting weapon doesn't one shot anything but its loads easier and more practical to use

edit: and it doesn't make much sense that you can't get meat when killing with a melee weapon

 

Well, count yourself lucky, because I can't use the bow at all. Running SB on a mac, and when I fire the bow (instant release, or fully drawn, or in between) the client fully crashes.

 

I was looking through the crash reports and there seems to be similar crashes with the bow on any mac

 

Chucklefish needs to fix the bow crashing thing.

 

Hopefully they won't overlook a (probably) less used OS and not dawdle when it comes to fixing important things like this, but for now, I'm having to test with my character on a vegetarian diet.

 

Well it did come out like 3 hours ago. The bow thing isn't that big a deal.
OP: I think that the bow should be underpowered and gathering meat should be a bit of a challenge.

 

I agree. Bows in Terraria are fine without the need for charging it up. Also, it seems to take way too long for the bow to charge. It's so bad that I abandoned the whole idea of hunting for food. There is supposed to be a way to turn hunger off so I will just do that. Too bad really, hunger sounds like it would be fun if I didn't have to use a terrible bow.

 

Well, seeing as they MADE the game for Mac, I'm sure they will fix this very soon.

 

I was having issues also kept dying and doing so little damage to the monsters, then I found out you can hold down the attack to do a power type attack wow what a difference!

 

orly? i ifgured they'd just leave that bug

 

Protip: Weaken enemies with a better weapon before using the bow. You only need the last hit to get the meat!

 

I thought its pretty annoying as well, until i got my iron bow. With this bow you can basically one shot the creatures at the starting area.

 

It may feel annoying if you're used to terraria, but I actually like the responsiveness.

 

What a chore.

 

While I did this initially ...after discovering the power attack on the bow it became a non issue.

 

If they even drop meat. It's way too much of a hassle to use this crappy bow, and then the monsters don't even drop meat always. Sometimes you just get leather.

I see no purpose behind not letting them drop meat with a melee weapon or a gun. What reasoning is there behind it? I should want to use a bow because I want to use a ranged weapon. Not because I want to get a certain thing to drop.