Fire & cooking

Making a fire

1. Use a fuel item in your inventory to build a fireplace in front of you.
2. Put kindling and fuel into the fireplace. Rags and paper work as kindling – item pages say what burns.
3. Have matches in your inventory and use the light action. Rain can stop a fire in the open from lighting.
4. Let the fire heat up – food only cooks once the fire is hot. Keep extra fuel ready.

Bake or boil

Food placed straight in the fire is baked; food in a Cooking Pot at the fireplace is boiled. Cut whole fish into portions first. Some packaged foods cannot be cooked. Take food off in time – it burns if you leave it.

Why cooking matters

Baked food gives the most energy, boiled food keeps more water. Raw meat, raw fish and burned food can make you sick.

Collecting more fuel

Bushes give long sticks; breaking a long stick gives wooden sticks. Trees need an axe and give firewood. Picking at bushes with bare hands is slower and can make you bleed.