Coastal clam digging

[ResidentWeevil 11]

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In short dig for clams in the surf much like searching for stones. Can be thrown into fire to cook or saved to eat later in the cook pot.

[B4GEL 175]

Nice idea! Foraging seems like it's going to be an important part of the game in the future, there's lots of fruit, berries and mushrooms in the gamefiles.

The seashore is definitely an area that should be not be overlooked as a source of food, as well as clams there could be mussels, winkles and oysters, whatever is native to the region. 

 

It would be amazing if they could made the sea have tides, so that at low tide you would go down the beach to dig for shellfish.

Edited September 4, 2015 by B4GEL

[Baker. 1484]

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In short dig for clams in the surf much like searching for stones. Can be thrown into fire to cook or saved to eat later in the cook pot.

Beans for you, I dug many a clam as a child

[S3V3N 1402]

That might make life on the beach a little earlier for fresh-spawns, too. If a town they pass is looted to the bones they could still dig for clams. Apples aren't always around or not right at the coast, at least. Only problem is that you'd really need boiling water for the cooking + a pot. Are there any bushcraft ways to prepare clams? Could be useful if you don't have a pot handy, maybe you can just throw them on the hot ashes? I like the idea, beans for you! 

[ResidentWeevil 11]

Like I said you can throw them in the fire till they open and cook or use soaked news paper to wrap them or fish up in and steam them like that!

Edit* Ive even used stacks of fresh broad leaves to do the wrapping

Edited September 4, 2015 by ResidentWeevil

[cash81 506]

Were you scouting clam locations on gents of novo this afternoon? Or was it greenscreams? Lol

[klesh 2423]

They've already got the clam digging highwater pants in.  

 

I used to dig too, B@ker.  Ipswich.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/21/dining/deep-fried-truth-about-ipswich-clams-no-matter-source-harvest-secret-classic.html

Edited September 5, 2015 by klesh

[MrAerospace 87]

Now there's an idea I could get behind, and it could really add to the coastal food supply for bambi's.

Shellfish foraging; clams, mussels, snails, crabs, etc. (dependent on search location)

- cooked / eaten raw / used as bait.

- small chance of food poisoning, increasing with storage time, less so if stored correctly.

- Poisoned shellfish could be recognised and discarded after cooking.

- Although maybe using a "discard opened or discard closed" prompt for different shellfish could add difficulty to recognition. (get it wrong and you are eating only poisonous ones)

You could also add seaweed to the foraging list too.

- More than one type, different probabilities of getting poisoned.

[liquidcactus 719]

Nice idea sonny