Characteristics
Overview
A pie made of bear meat, provides a boost to hunger, health and hydration. Increases effect of harvesting teas but reduces their duration.
Picture a multiplier with a short fuse. The game text says it strengthens harvesting teas, the line you drink for skinning corpses, and cuts how long they last. More meat, fat and hide per swing, but fewer swings before it is over.
So the pie belongs at the end of a hunt, never the start. Say a bear fight by the river drew in a wolf pack, and now you have four wolves and the bear lying on the bank and a nearly empty quiver. That pile is the moment. Eat the pie, drink a basic harvesting tea or, since there is a bear, an advanced harvesting tea, and work through the bodies one after another. Eaten before the chase, the buff runs out while you are still drawing the bow.
Tip
In a duo, only one of you needs the pie and the tea. The other keeps a bow up and watches the treeline, because a roamer who heard the fight tends to show up just as you kneel over the bear.
Cooking it takes bear meat, so the first bear of the wipe pays for the later pies. The rich bear pie greatly increases the effect by its own description, and it still shortens the tea.
