I’m hungry. How to reliably find meat

starbound

I've been playing for about 2 hours now and so far I've found a grand total of 2 pieces of meat by killing monsters. One was when I had the quest to find meat, and the other was when my friend had a quest to find meat.

Do you have to kill certain types of monsters or with certain weapons for meat to drop? Does it only drop during that quest? How can I improve my odds of finding some?

Best Answer

Currently meat drops at a 50% rate when using bows. This is getting boosted to 70% as well as getting a small chance to drop when using other weapons.

Monsters now have a 70% chance to drop meat when killed with a hunting weapon, up from 50%

Added hunting knife weapon that also makes monsters drop meat

Monsters now have a small chance to drop meat when killed with normal weapons.