Awkward Zombie

Foxes are a solid early-game source of meat for before you discover and gain the skills for larger game. I shot a lot of foxes when I was fresh out of the starting gate.

These days, I leap off my horse to do midair bullet-time headshots that drop 3-5 rhinos and elk simultaneously and then collect ALL OF THE MEAT, but that's not shit you can do five seconds after stepping out of the Shrine of Resurrection.

And you want meat. You need meat. Its utility as a healing item is rendered entirely obsolete by the discovery of Hearty items that have 100% HP restoration as a side effect in their dishes, but there are few things in the game that combine reliable ease of access with sales value quite like five-item Meatballs. Short on rupees for that armor you want to buy? Meatball it up. That shit's basically printing money.

edited 26th Jun '17 4:28:20 PM by TobiasDrake

I very quickly stopping hunting foxes because of the need to preserve arrows.

Why would you need to preserve arrows? F*ck, I can't even get rid of specialty arrows fast enough. I've got over fifty of each type.

They're scarce in the early game.

Only until you reach Kakariko and can buy them.

EDIT: Hell, Beedle sells them at horse stables.

edited 26th Jun '17 4:59:46 PM by TobiasDrake

Yeah, but by the time I reached a stable, I'd moved beyond the need to hunt much of anything.

edited 26th Jun '17 5:06:18 PM by Gilphon

I always had money issues early too. I never figured out the "sell your food" trick.

Shit, I was still doing it in the lategame. I'd just moved from making Meatballs out of foxes and rams and shit to making them out of elk and rhinos. Depending on the quality of meat you're using, a 5-meat Meatballs is good for 80-250 rupees apiece.

I wasn't just an adventurer. I was also a traveling meat vendor.

edited 26th Jun '17 5:24:40 PM by TobiasDrake

Most of my income came from doing a circuit of Talus hunting each blood moon, and selling the gems.

...Well, shit , I did not know that, and I only started playing this weekend. I'm not sure if that knowledge just saved or ruined the game for me.

edited 27th Jun '17 5:49:33 AM by Kayeka

Fun fact: Fire arrows give cooked meat

Cooked meat stacks unlike any other food items.

So take a walk through the mountains with a nice savage lynel bow with fire arrows and walk out with hundreds of prime/gourmet meat to eat for weeks.

Regular fire-roasted food in general stacks unlike recipes. While they ultimately have lower healing values, you can carry a lot more of them. Plus they're a lot easier to cook en masse. Just drop armfuls of food items anywhere on Death Mountain, then pick them up when well-done.

Why would you eat meat?!

Spoilering for Kayeka's benefit: You can't make Meatballs out of cooked meat so the profit margin is destroyed by roasting the meat, and any potential benefit in healing gained is thoroughly outclassed by the fact that any dish made with a Hearty ingredient guarantees 100% health restoration. If you need something to munch on, just cook Hearty foods individually. Save the meat for sales!

Roasting meat is ideal when inventory slots become a relative scarcity. Also eventually money becomes irrelevant.

...every answer just raises more questions.

As I got further in the game, Food slots became less scarce. No longer needing to carry around Food items for resistances and stuff 'cause I had armor to do the job meant more space for Hearty meals. By end of game, my inventory was full of Hearty meals. Like, I cannot actually fathom using up four entire pages of Hearty meals.

"so the profit margin is destroyed by roasting the meat"

The profit in the flame arrow tactic is provided by sheer bulk of stackable food, rather than having it all in their individual slots.

It doesn't matter how many you can stack in a slot when you're stacking it with garbage. Roasted meat is garbage as a healing item compared to Hearty dishes and garbage as a sales item compared to Meatballs. What, exactly, is the benefit to being able to put any number of functionally useless items into a single inventory space? I can put a bunch of moblin teeth in one space too, but I'm not exactly going out of my way to stockpile those either.

At best, we're talking about Seared Gourmet Steak which can heal 4.5 hearts. That's the top of the line, cream of the crop, hardest meat you can earn and sear. Cool. You put in that effort and now you've got a bunch of those, 3 or 4 of which are required to equal the efforts of a dish made of nothing more than a single radish I picked up off the ground while wandering around.

That with enough effort you could theoretically have an endless supply of these is a neat bit of trivia, but Hearty Radishes aren't exactly rare and hard to come by, require much less of a time investment than hunting Gourmet Meat for far greater gains, and I'm still at a loss for why you would necessarily need more than 80 full-HP healing items at one time.

Because you keep telling yourself that they heal too much and you should save them for an emergency but then you get to an emergency and you're like "but what if there's a bigger emergency later?"

And then your inventory is full.

Just to be clear, by 'Meatballs', we're referring to Meat Skewers, right?

...I think so, yes. You put five Meat in a pot and sell what comes out. I usually use the pot right outside Kakariko's shops or at one of the ranches, so I can just turn around, sell off all the product immediately, and then buy some more arrows. I am positively drowning in arrows. It's great.

Ooo, this is a bad game to have a Too Awesome to Use mindset in. Awesome stuff is everywhere and so easy to come by.

I was hitting a bokoblin with my 50-power Sword of Duality the other day with my BFF looking over my shoulder. She was like, "What are you doing?! You're supposed to use your shitty weapon on those!" And I was like, "This IS my shitty weapon."

edited 28th Jun '17 10:52:39 AM by TobiasDrake

I never used the good weapons. I hoard them too. And the shields.

Today, I took a little excursion to Hyrule Castle. My inventory is full with all kinds of awesome weapons, and I'm still constantly looking for sharp sticks to use against Moeblins. It's rather inconvenient, but man oh man is the next boss I run into going to get nuked.

Friendly reminder that this is the Awkward Zombie thread, and that we have both a Zelda general thread and a BOTW thread.

And on that note, "Katie, you're a psychopath"

I can totally hear Cam Clarke hamming up these lines.