Pumpkin

The Pumpkin is a crop-type food in 99 Nights in the Forest, which tells you a lot about how to treat it. As produce rather than a hunting drop, it's something you grow or harvest rather than fight for, making it a renewable, low-risk source of calories for your camp. Eaten raw it gives a modest hunger top-up, the kind of snack that keeps you ticking between bigger meals.

Its real strength, though, is as a cooking ingredient. The Pumpkin is the base of Pumpkin Soup, a far more valuable cooked dish, so rather than munching pumpkins one at a time, you're usually better off banking them for the pot. That turns a humble vegetable into a meaningful step toward a meal that actually sustains you through the colder, hungrier nights.

Is it worth grabbing? Yes, especially if you're invested in farming and cooking. On its own a Pumpkin is unremarkable, but as the foundation of soup it punches above its weight. Stockpile a few whenever you can, then convert them into the warming dish when your hunger bar starts dipping.