# Day 12 and all my canned food is rotten. What \*should\* I have been hoarding?

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**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [October 15, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/day-12-and-all-my-canned-food-is-rotten-what-should-i-have-been-hoarding/7587 "2014-10-15T21:27:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thwap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@Thwap](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Thwap)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/day-12-and-all-my-canned-food-is-rotten-what-should-i-have-been-hoarding/7587/1 "2014-10-15T21:27:19Z")

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Question as in the title. Well, not quite all of it, but things are going bad left and right and I have no real reason to imagine that any of it will last much longer. If not canned food, what am I supposed to be storing up to eat?

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**Author:** ![Arek\_PL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Arek\_PL](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Arek_PL)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/day-12-and-all-my-canned-food-is-rotten-what-should-i-have-been-hoarding/7587/2 "2014-10-15T21:28:54Z")

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just two words

meat jerky

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**Author:** ![Valpo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valpo/32/341_2.png) [@Valpo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valpo)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/day-12-and-all-my-canned-food-is-rotten-what-should-i-have-been-hoarding/7587/3 "2014-10-15T21:29:04Z")

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dehydrated food. pemican and jerky.

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**Author:** ![Arek\_PL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Arek\_PL](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Arek_PL)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/day-12-and-all-my-canned-food-is-rotten-what-should-i-have-been-hoarding/7587/4 "2014-10-15T21:33:32Z")

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good idea is to have barrel of salt water and barrel of water and them collect all eggs and turn them into dust (dehydrated powder) and them create meat jerky and finaly deluxe scrambled eggs

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**Author:** ![Valpo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valpo/32/341_2.png) [@Valpo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valpo)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/day-12-and-all-my-canned-food-is-rotten-what-should-i-have-been-hoarding/7587/5 "2014-10-15T21:36:21Z")

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salt op nerf plox

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**Author:** ![Bonevomit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Bonevomit](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Bonevomit)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/day-12-and-all-my-canned-food-is-rotten-what-should-i-have-been-hoarding/7587/6 "2014-10-15T21:40:07Z")

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They shouldn’t be rotting that fast. 12 days? That’s way too short for canned food.

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**Author:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/day-12-and-all-my-canned-food-is-rotten-what-should-i-have-been-hoarding/7587/7 "2014-10-15T21:41:08Z")

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> [@Bonevomit](#):
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> They shouldn’t be rotting that fast. 12 days? That’s way too short for canned food.

Yeah, it’s a bit of a bug due to the fact that canned food isn’t ever really considered “sealed” IIRC. It’s a fix that’s definitely on my list to update, but I just haven’t gotten to it yet.

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**Author:** ![Valpo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valpo/32/341_2.png) [@Valpo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valpo)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/day-12-and-all-my-canned-food-is-rotten-what-should-i-have-been-hoarding/7587/8 "2014-10-15T21:43:42Z")

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> [@i2amroy](#):
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> Yeah, it’s a bit of a bug due to the fact that canned food isn’t ever really considered “sealed” IIRC. It’s a fix that’s definitely on my list to update, but I just haven’t gotten to it yet.

So if i take canned food out of the can it will rot as fast as in it?

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**Author:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/day-12-and-all-my-canned-food-is-rotten-what-should-i-have-been-hoarding/7587/9 "2014-10-15T22:04:54Z")

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Assuming nobody has made any stealth changes that I didn’t notice I believe so, yeah.

Ideally the system should eventually work like the sealed jars do, where there is a sealed can of food that doesn’t actually start to rot until you open it.

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**Author:** ![acehawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/65b543/32.png) [@acehawk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/acehawk)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/day-12-and-all-my-canned-food-is-rotten-what-should-i-have-been-hoarding/7587/10 "2014-10-15T22:38:02Z")

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Smoked meat is awesome for the early game. Once you can find an ant hill and survive it ant eggs are the BEST food in the game IMO. 1 fills you up from very hungry and provides some quench, they never rot, and you find them by the hundreds.