cdelorme - "My problem with smoked meats is they require a 10 SUR investment to craft, and restore 6 less food than Good Soup which requires no trait investment. For a meager 8 large copper you can afford the round trip to fishtopia and the full leather set to boost SUR and increase fruit and veggie spawn rates"
Is the 10 SUR levels a lot for ya? BTW - If you play on Hell or DOOM difficulty most of your Vege/Meat/Good Soup just... POOF!!! It does't exist in Hell or DOOM reality after clock strikes 100+;)
...therefore 10 SUR stat mostly for Hell or DOOM difficulty players;)
10 SUR stat is also helps in the Abomination Lands because you can make Mysterious Smoked Meat which reduces the risk of getting some disease or depressed mood -> but... you can’t do that until you personally level up 10 SUR stat for Lona because you don’t have this recipe...
Good Soup costs nothing if you try to sell it somebody while Smoked Animal Meat or Dry Meal is good to sell.
Starter Hunter farm build -> 1 Club + 1 Lamp + 10 SUR stat + 1 Horse ↓↓↓
1 Smoked Meat = 220 TP => 8 Smoked Meat = 1760TP = 1 Large Copper Coin (almost)
1 Dry Meal = 150 TP => 12 dry meal = 1800TP = 1 Large Copper Coin
In half a day you can make about 25-30+ Smoked Meat and 50-60+ Dry Meal = +/- 8-10 Large Copper Coin
therefore 1 Gold Coin per 1 day at Lona LvL 11 = 20 Gold Coin per 20 days (Not the best way... but one of the safest ways to farm a lot of money at start as Hunter/Warrior).
If you don’t level up your SUR stat then you waste a lot of real time just on cooking and most of the time you’re wearing only one outfit (Leather Set) just to survive... which kinda boring to me...