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

I'd like to have a "hunting" tag in some weapons, and these weapons should drop meat
It's good to remember that meat isn't the only food source in the game. You even start with a bunch of seeds to make a farm, but still, if you want to eat meat, having a bow as the ONLY way to obtain it kinda limits the gameplay

 

and again if mist all the fun ill i quote myself

if someone has already suggested this i'm sorry, if not read all the posts .

 

Don't know if it has been suggested yet but:

Hunting Kit Tech. (For levels [XX-XX])
This equable tech will enable all weapons of this tier to be used in gathering food from wildlife. The rate will vary based on type of weapon with more powerful ones dropping less salvageable meat. Takes up 1(or two) tech slots and does not nearly guarantee drops like dedicated hunting weapons.

 

I don't think that food should be limited to hunting weapons, but I do think that hunting weapons should highly increase when using hunting weapons.

 

This is my favorite quote in this thread

 

There's a second reason for hunting weapons. Not just challenge, or controlling the speed of progression. If every weapon yields meat, then your inventory becomes ever fuller, ever faster. One thing I hated about Terraria was finding my inventory full of little bits and baubles I either didn't need, or didn't want. I'm just saying that, perhaps having specific hunting tools would make it easier for us when we're exploring, versus restocking.

 

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shit i didnt even see that typo

 

From the early videos it seems that meat is really rare with bows.
I still agree with some form of limit and the tool perspective, but if meat is limited to certain weapons then certain weapons should ALWAYS give meat (or meat and other stuff limited to certain weapons), period.

 

Meat drops should be 4/5 with the bow, and then 1/5 with other weapons. I don't like being forced to use a specific weapon, feels gimmicky.

 

I think we should give the hunting bow/weapon system a chance, we don't even know how many such weapons are available.

 

I do think it's decent... but as I'm going through Molly's list of Starbound videos... every single person showcasing the game has had trouble getting meat, I don't think anyone has even got meat to drop on the first bow kill. The drop rate is just a bit too low, it seems like you're more likely to get nothing or leather than you are to get meat, you have to seriously put some dedication to feeding yourself.

 

Another problem is that nobody seems to find out that you can press+hold bow to power up the shot. It should be somehow more obvious, like a power up bar or aim bar similar to how the Worms series did as you aimed a grenade or bazooka and held Fire to make the shot go further.

 

I noticed this too and I'm not sure If i'm correct here, but can't you put an item on the "L & R" keys at the top? I think it'd be easier to have your left click a sword, and your right click a bow. Last hit each alien with your bow for meat. If that doesn't work then yeah the hunger seems to be killing everyone.

 

I'm starting to think that tooltips might be a good idea... perhaps if they added a sound effect when you pull the string back? I'm not sure how they could go about this without making it patronizingly obvious.

Your display picture STILL creeps me the math out. Anyhow, the bow and most swords (so far) are all two-handed, so you can't put both in your hands. You could swap between them quickly, yeah, but not wield them at the same time.

 

Fairly common mechanic and not one that bothers me none to be honest

 

I apologize for nothing. That said, I agree. It might be useful as well for other things if they add it as a property to some guns later on. They have a bowdraw animation but it needs to be a bit more obvious.

 

you can plant

 

I don't think Rocket Launchers should allow you to gather meat. The amount of damage to the corpse would make it impractical. Same with things like Flamethrowers-- while the idea of cooking something alive is funny, it isn't realistic. The inside of the animal would be uncooked, and the outside would be burnt. It makes sense to have dedicated hunting weapons, but I don't want bows forced on me.

On the other hand, this does give more motivation to farm crops instead of only hunting.

 

I've actually been wondering about that, but haven't really seen enough of it to comment. So far if you plant something you seem to only have a slight chance of finding seeds when you harvest, so you have to keep finding seeds... but unless you're constantly finding treasure chests you're very quickly going to run out of seeds to plant. I think plants like carrots don't even yield any seeds at all when you harvest them.

 

I think that since this is a beta, it will probably be addressed and balanced if the overall consensus is that the drop rate is too low, but I don't think we'd be able to discern that from watching a handful of videos made playing a handful of game builds.