Potato

Pack a stack before a long trip. Potatoes go down raw, so there is no fire to light and give your spot away, and no meat waiting to be cooked first. You eat one and keep moving.

Nothing else on the site asks for them. No pie, tea or other recipe in our data lists the potato, and there is no cooked version either. That keeps the choice easy: grow them to eat, and never hold a stack back for a craft.

Picture a ride to a monument on the far side of the map. Raw meat from the last hunt still needs a fire, and a campfire in the open at night is exactly what brings roamers to you. A handful of potatoes in your inventory keeps the hunger bar up the whole way there and back.

The farm behind them is the usual ladder. Potato seeds start the first round in a large planter box, clones of your best plant fill the beds after that, and whatever is left over at the end of the wipe goes into the composter.