Forum:Is "cooking" food really worth it?

68.213.219.30 18:08, October 30, 2010 (UTC) I have collected many things since level - 1. I am now at the end of level - 5. Is it really worth it to "cook" at the campfires? I really have not tried it yet, I just keep gathering things. ALSO, Is it worth the time and trouble to use the reloading benches to make ammo into another kind? I seem to be ok just finding it as I go thru the game? THANKS ! 68.213.219.30 18:08, October 30, 2010 (UTC)Cincykidscott
 * This is the FALLOUT 3 gameplay help forum. Answers to your questions - Yes, and yes. --Johnny Trash (Talk) 02:54, November 1, 2010 (UTC)

You will find that the campfires will be very helpful on Hardcore mode. For example you can make certain special chems that may prove hard to find on vendors (maybe except for Jack at the drug lab in red rock), this can include slasher, turbo, party mentats, etc. It is also a good means to create food from animals you have killed like Bighorners, not to mention you can produce purified water via the campfire too. If you are on Hardcore mode, the campfire proves to be "VERY" useful to say the least in terms for water and food that you don't have to pay for. There are also a lot of easy to get skill point books for the survival skill so a moderate point value for that skill is 60 which will allow you to make most anything there. If you are not playing on Hardcore mode though, the campfires usefulness goes down simply because you can easily stack up on food/stims/other HP restoratives in your explorations.

As far as it goes for the work benches and other tables. The reloading workbench is pretty much useless except for a few special ammo recipes. The other worktable available to you is useful in the means you can create ammo for laser/plasma weapons from drained types of its ammo, you can convert ammo to an overcharge or max charged version of itself or even convert say energy cells to microfusion cells if your low on those. The only table I found not useful was the reloading workbench.

i'm tired of seeing NV posts in this forum. especially with this new annoying Wikia layout, it should be painfully obvious you're entering the FO3 forums and there is a NV one.Dunmer999 04:18, December 13, 2010 (UTC)