Raw Beef

Beef comes from livestock, not from the deer and boars you shoot on the way to a monument. The game's texts talk about farm animals that graze, eat from a hitch and trough when grass runs short, and can turn on you until they get used to you. They never say plainly where those animals stand on your map, and servers differ, so do not plan a wipe around a steady supply.

That makes every stack worth a thought. Picture a teammate coming back with an armful of raw beef and dumping it in the loot box before logging off. Two days later the box holds spoiled beef, and nobody got a meal out of it.

So decide straight away. A few pieces go on the fire and come back as cooked beef, which restores some health, hunger and thirst like other meat. The rest waits in a fridge. A solo who runs monuments has the best use for it: the Beef Pie is made of beef and lets you eat past the usual full mark.