Cooking

To survive in LifeAfter you need to know how to cook.

**Farming** or **Gathering** is one of the necessary parts of LifeAfter to receive resources.

Resources are necessary for Grafting or Build Tools, Weapons, Armory or Furniture for Buildings.
In your beginning in LifeAfter you will walk through the Tutorial. Anton will show you how to learn how to gather resources from stones, trees or hemp .
At the beginning he will give you a  Stone Axe and a  Stone Pickaxe. You need to walk to a stone. Attach your  Stone Pickaxe and use your combat and hold them to gather the resources until the stone is disappear. The same procedure you will need to do while gathering wood from a tree. You need to walk to a Tree. Attach your  Stone Axe and use your combat and hold them to gather the resources until the tree is disappear.
Now you need to walk to hemp and use the [Collect] button. You now know how to gather resources. You need to do the same in most of the other Maps.

## Resources Farming

To get resources in LifeAfter, the player must first select one area of the Pact Zone. Which resources can be obtained there, can be looked up at the helicopter.
In order to gather resources, it is important to know which one is needed.

### Wood Gathering

In order to extract woody resources, a  Stone Axe,  Iron Axe,  Fire Axe,  Steel Axe,  Multipurpose Axe or an  Alloy Axe needed.
The player should now walk with his character on a tree and then press the attack button.
As long as the character has not yet learned Automatic Gathering, the player must hold down this button until the whole tree has been dismantled.
Check that you need to attach your right gathering tool. Especially at the beginning you can not switch between Axe and Pickaxe that easily.

### Stone Gathering

In order to mine stone-like resources, a  Stone Pickaxe,  Iron Pickaxe,  Assembled Pickaxe,  Steel Pickaxe,  Spark-proof Pickaxe or an Military Pickaxe needed.
The player should now walk with his character to a stone and then press the attack button.
As long as the character has not yet learned Automatic Gathering, the player must hold down this button until the entire stone has been dismantled.
Check also here that you attach a pickaxe because at the beginning easy switching between axe and pickaxe is not aviable.

### Hemp Gathering

The same is true for Hemp raw materials. To do this, the player only has to direct the character to the resource of his desire and press the [Collect] button.

## Food Gathering

Collecting food resources is easier. To do this, the player only has to direct the character to the resource of his desire and press the [Collect] button.

### Meat and Bones

Hunting in LifeAfter is a necessary part. You need to kill a lot of Infected, Humanoide or Animals.
You need to wear a Weapon and attack your target. Watch out that some creatures maybe fight back. Other creatures will run away. Take always a look to your health to avoid lost on your durability and studyness.
**Fishing** in LifeAfter is a simple way to gather ingredients to cook a nice meal. Some fish can be used for decorational purposes by being placed in an aquarium inside your manor. These decorational fish can also be sold in the Trade City or Market. All fish, other than the grey quality fish, can also be sold to NPCs for New Dollars.
You need to accept the task Let's go fishing! in Hope 101 or at the camp call board.

You need to go to Fall Forest and meet with Vast not the Infected but the NPC. You can check your map to find his location. After meeting him he will give you a task to increase your fishing skill. He will provide you with a  Wooden Fishing Rod, some  Metal Fish Lure and their blueprints. You now need to use these items to increase your fishing level. The first step to fishing is to find a safe spot to avoid hostiles and bad weather. For starters, the best places to fish are in the Fall Forest or the Camp Fishing Pond.

You need to craft 2-3  Wooden Fishing Rod.

After increasing your fishing skill you need to talk with Vast again, in order to get your next task.

Finish the quest by catching one of the target fish in your quest. It does not matter where you fish. After receiving the right fish, you can accept your new quest on the call board.

The new task is similar to the first.
You need to increase your fishing level to gain a blueprint for building a new rod.
 Iron Fishing Rod and File:Vegitable Fish Lure.png Vegitable Fish Lure.

After talking to Vast he will tell you to go fishing and again bring him a target fish.

You need to receive the new quest from the call board.

Increase your fishing level.
After reaching the next fishing level you need to go to Sand Castle and talk to Vast in the northern cave.
Next, you need to go fishing to bring him a Development Zone.
You will recive the blueprint with the new  Fiberglass Fishing Rod and File:Meat Fish Lure.png Meat Fish Lure.

The next quest starts after accepting it from the board.

Increase your Lv. 4 Fishing Mastery to Lv. 5. Now we can search for File:Vast.png Vast. He will waiting near [-3967, 1831]

You will receive the blueprint File:Improved FG Fishing Rod.png Improved FG Fishing Rod and File:Basic Fish Trap.png Basic Fish Trap. During the quest you will learn how to use the File:Basic Fish Trap.png Basic Fish Trap.

Now that you are level 5 you need to access the board and accept the new fishing quest; Fishing level Breakthrough III
It will take some time and a lot of fish bait and fishing rods to increase your fishing level to 7. However after finish the quest you will now be able to craft an File:Exquisite FG Fishing Rod.png Exquisite FG Fishing Rod anytime you want.

 File:Exquisite FG Fishing Rod.png Exquisite FG Fishing Rod | Lv. 5 Fishing Rod

## Cooking

You can craft at home a  Campfire,  Household Grill or an File:Gas Oven.png Gas Oven to cook some nice food.
The  Household Grill need to crafted in the Furniture Store otherwise you can find one in the Development Zone while the New Home Quest.
Now it is on you to learn new recipes by combining materials with eachother. After learning some recipes you can use it in the wilderness. It would be necessary while you are in a dangerous place and want to use the buff from your food. For example in Snow Highlands to safe yourself from the cold with  Hot Water.

### Wilderness cooking

After gathering ressources you need to craft a  Campfire now you can look for an recipe you want to cook. If you got enough ressources the title of the Food will be white. Otherwise it will be red. You can take a look wich ressources you need by pressing on the recipe you want to cook and check by pressing [Obtain materials].
While the title is white you need to press [Cooking] now you need to wait till the cooking process is finish. After that you can take your meal out.
If you do not have enough  Wood gathered you simply can use  Hemp or File:Hopeafter.png Hopeafter to ignite the fire.
It is also possible to use a File:Fireplace.png Fireplace in a Safehouse to cook something nice.
Note that you need to learn recipes at home to cook basic recipes in the wilderness.

## Farmland

**Farmland** in LifeAfter is an easy way to get resources you need for everything you can do on LifeAfter.

## Hope 101

You very first farmland is really small.
After finish your quest in Hope 101 you will live in 101 Development Zone. File:Rachel.png Rachel will show and guide you how to live in your new home. While she Wil show you how to build your first home building.
But sadly she will not show you how to use your farmlands.

At the beginning you got a limited farmland with a field with??x?? square. You need to buy with  Gold Bars new square to increase your farmland.
Note: that you maybe need to save your money when you are planning to move to an camp.

## Camp

Your Camp farmland is a little bit bigger. But you need to buy new squares to increase your farmlands as well. In the end you will got a farmland with a maximal 12x8 square.
To unlock everything you need the following Manor levels and for every thing 100  Gold Bars

Now you know where you find your farmland it is important to know where you get to planting and gather the things you need.

## Buying Plants

### Mall

In top, on your right side / left from your map you can see the **Mall** Button. You need to switch to the **Plants**  tab. Sometimes by scrolling down the left tab side.

### Camp / Hope 101

#### Camp

In your **Camp** you will find File:Tex Brandon.png Tex Brandon near the Camp Vault. You will able to buy these things from him.

#### Hope 101

In **Hope 101** you need to visit File:Armstrong.png Armstrong to buy

## Gather Plant Seeds

You can not gather directly seeds you need or you want but you always has the chance to get seeds by gathering resources.

You will be able to gather plants by gathering

## Planting

### Plants

**Planting** in LifeAfter is one of the methods to recive some Ingredients to **cook** some nice meals to recive some Buff food.

You can not place every kind of plant you want to. You need to gather or buy seeds

## Planting Seeds

You need a to go to you 101 Development Zone or Camp you will find in the development zone 4 different places to place some of your plants.

After receiving some seeds you need to walk to your Farmland and press the [] button.
Now you can scroll to the seed you want to plant.
Press [Planting] or [Cultivate] button and stay still for some seconds. Now you need to [Water] and [Fetilize] your crops.

Make sure to check near every 20 minutes your crops for they need.

## Environment

Every seed has his favorite environment. While planting the seed in the right environment you will able to enlarge your harvest.
**Thundershower** and **Biohazard** are the worst Szenario for everything in your home. If you plant something in this environment you will start with a maximum of 2 yield. You need to fertilize or give them more oil to increase the amount.

Some activities like [Weed] will increase the amount of your yield but note that it will fill up your ripe too. In that case you prever to fill up yield you should lower your activitys they will increase your ripes.

The environment will not affect to you crops. That means in that case you got a rainy day. You need as well to [water] your crops.

The environment will affect your crops means if you plant your crops in a cold and snowing day you maybe need to use File:Antifreeze.png Antifreeze. Using File:Antifreeze.png Antifreeze or File:Bug Repellent.png Bug Repellent will increase the ripe.

### Fertilizer

Increase the amount of your yield.
The lowest fertilizer is  Feces Fertilizer but it is the easiest to get. You Simple need to build a File:Toilet.png Toilet.

You can buy 2  Common Fertilizer per day

 Advanced Fertilizer is only for Furniture Maker certificated player to craft and give the most amount. You can buy it in the Markt.

## Basic Info

### Materials Needed:

* 300 Wood
* 100 Stone
* 10 Hemp

### Used in:

* Cast Iron Drill Bit
* Alloy Drill Bit
* Diamond Drill Bit
* Carbon Steel Drill

> "*Used on the Manor Field in Camp. It needs 8 Blocks of Field. You can place the Drill Bit on it to excavate Ore*"
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To increase to amount of gathering resources you need to [Add Fuel] File:Drill Engine Oil.png Drill Engine Oil.

Every 20 minutes you need to watch over your Excavator and need to reduce the needs of the machine. It will increase the **Ripe**. It means that the production time will reduce.
Ripe has no effect on the durability.

To fill up the **Yield** you need to fill the mine with File:Drill Engine Oil.png Drill Engine Oil

The durability of the mine will reduce 2 points every time you use an drill bit on it. You can use 5 drill bit. The you need to set a new excavator.

Watch out wich weather your farmland got. In heavy rainy days the drill will stop and you do not got a good amount while gathering.

### Rear

Live Stock Pen
Live Stock Garden
Poultry Pen
Live Poultry Pen