Hunting Bow discussion - Should food drops be limited to hunting weapons?

I would rather that melee weapons in general, and maybe a few specialized ranged weapons allowed the dropping of meat.
In my opinion, this makes melee weapons less useful in a fight, as you have to get up close, but far more versatile when it comes to generally surviving on a planet.

It would also mean that low-level weapons, such as the ones you get at the start of the game, are very useful in helping you survive early-game. Which is good! It helps you get a head start on your conquering of the galaxy.

 

I also propose that killing something with a flamethrower or other such fire-based weaponry drops cooked meat.

 

Right. And killing a wild boar with an axe should immediately produce Pork Chops.

 

As opposed to what?

 

If we're going to have dedicated hunting weapons there needs to be a wide variety of them. You have my vote for option two.

 

As opposed to raw meat which you need to cook in some way later.

 

Ah. Perhaps charred meat then?

That also raises an interesting question: will some races (like the Florans) be able to eat raw meat the same as cooked meat?

 

As I mentioned in my original post, it would be an interesting race perk. Florans could even practice cannibalism with regard to other playable races.

I would imagine the Glitch to be most versatile though, perhaps able to consume wood, oil, or other flammable materials.

 

it sacrafices food drops for pixel drops so it's balanced in that sense

Seems that you can craft it early on so it acts as the ranged weapon for some people

it won me over and i hope to see a small hunting knife style one too!

Autzome's List of things he wants to see!:
1) race styled bows(Similar to the swords)
2)race styled ranged weapons(similar to the swords)
3)killing a race gets ya something that, that race would drop(feathers and such) for further crafting as along as your using the bow

 

I think that food drops should be strictly for hunting weapons. Of course, I won't care if they aren't, but I'll still use a bow to hunt for my food.

OR GROW IT WITH SCIENCE
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Unrelated: this is my first post from my phone. Science IS the answer!

 

Oil and similar things could make sense, though other things like wood are probably not energy-dense enough to be really useful. Unless one of their armors has a biofuel condenser or something.

 

i think there should be hunting weapons, but not only the bow.
it would fall under (relative) logic that extremely fancy weapon might annihilate or contaminate edible meat off a prey, so i think there could be "hunting guns" and other such thing

 

P.E.T.A. Won't be happy with this post! They're against hurting animals but they're DEFINITELY okay with hurting and hunting people with their own hunting bows and knives.

I for one will be a Starbound Vegan. I should start a cooking show about how to be vegan and avoid hungry animals!

 

The main thing I dislike about the hunting bow mechanic is having another necessary item in my inventory. I would only use the hunting bow when I needed to gather meat - So it would just gather dust in my inventory for the most part - But I would need to keep it just in case I run out of food. Plus, the horrors of Terraria inventory clutter have traumatized me into wanting as few items in my inventory as possible.

It's a futuristic game, so it seems strange that gathering meat would be limited to a hunting bow, even if it was a very advanced hunting bow. Meat still has to be somewhat difficult to gather, though. If it becomes too easy, it will become a pointless mechanic you don't even pay attention to - so I would go with either choice 2 or 3 in the poll.

 

PETA can go to hell.

 

For those whom want a logical reason behind why you can't get meat from a creature you shot to death, think of it this way: The majority of bullets manufactured are lead based, save for ones designed for hunting purposes and also the ones appropriated by the Geneva convention (Go figure, you're allowed to shoot people in war but you're not allowed to give them lead poisoning in the process).

So if you're spraying a creature down with bullets, you're giving it lead poisoning and you really don't want to eat that meat. (One shot through the throat doesn't do any harm really as it's a minimal amount of lead, but when you're looking at the amount of shots players will be taking to kill a creature, then you're pretty much eating a lead pencil. xD)

I don't know about lasers and all but meh, maybe something like radiation poisoning and the sort.

Sadly the option to switch to hunting ammunition in-game isn't there.

Edit: One thing to keep in mind is there's plenty of other types of bullets. Lead is merely the cheapest hence why it's the most frequently used.

 

This. I'm assuming this is the reason why they chose bows to begin with. I do agree though that hunting knives, crossbows, etc. maybe some upper scale higher tech weapons for dealing more damage on higher level planets to obtain meat, but I think specialized weapons should be used for meat. If not the only way to get meat, at least be much more efficient at getting the meat than a standard weapon.

A pig full of buckshot is not as edible as a big killed with a hunting rifle, and it's pretty much inedible if you ruptured a no-no organ or like the liver or intestines. Food for thouggh.

 

You do realize you have separate inventories for materials and items right?

 

I believe Hunting weapons (as a separate class of weaponry) would definitely add more realistic properties to the game, and also make it more...survivally? Also I want a laser turkey slicer to hunt with. Just saying.

 

You won't get a gun at start. They've been moved to higher tiers (and UFO boss along with them) for the actual balanced game. (I think it had more to do with ease of obtaining food, actually. And then meat clutter later in the game.)

I somehow doubt they're going to go down with one arrow. They'd be pincushioned and ruined just like anything else, following the logic.

I prefer the idea of only a few types of monster dropping meat. They could be given higher speed than most other mobs, so you'd need to use a ranged weapon (the hunting bow at pre-gun tiers) or be clever and trap them in a pit or something for melee (quite a bit of effort; e.g, when cornered, smaller prey might leap over you and larger prey could charge past and stun you.)