Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Food Guide Jeroen Amin (Invisible Assassin) invisibleassassin (AT) gmail (DOT) com Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Developed by: Konami Computer Entertainment Japan Published by: Konami +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Table of Contents +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ 1. Version Info 2. Introduction 3. Animals 4. Plants 5. Misc. Food 6. FAQ 7. Hunting Tips. 8. Closing +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Version Info +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ November 21, 2004- Started Food Guide. November 22, 2004- Started responding to feedback. Added Flying Squirrel and Green Snake to list. Also added Milk Snake and Parrot. Woo! A new Tips section for you hunting noobs! November 23, 2004- New animals. November 24, 2004- Sorted through all 300mb of emails!!! Added some new animals, and new hunting tips. Sorry if your name wasn't added, but someone might have beaten you to it. Added some new hunting tips as well. +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Introduction +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Hello, and welcome to my Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (hereby referred to as MGS3) Food Guide. I will cover all edible items, and if I forget any, or screw up on anything, please email me at my address above. I will try to respond quickly, but Gmail is known to take a bit longer to receive mail than Hotmail, because of it's far superior spam filter. Instead, try adding me to MSN if you want a really fast and personalized response. Be assured, you will be credited if you add, correct or suggest something worthwhile. If you want to put this guide on your site, feel free too, but please send me an email beforehand, so that I may give you legal permission. I will also put up my ASCII art once it is perfected. ***SPECIAL REQUEST FOR FISH INFO*** To use this guide: Name Initial Taste: Bad, Fairly tasty, Tasty, Outstanding Danger Level: None, Low, Medium, High Stamina Recovery: Minimal (Nothing to Quarter bar), Small (Half bar), Medium (Bar), High (Bar+), Special (Battery Recharge) (Stamina Gauge is divided into 4 bars) Capture: Yes, No Description +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Animals +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Animals can attack Snake and can be captured live. If you have only the meat of an animal, it will rot after some time. If you have an animal captured live, it will never rot and you can pull a few neat tricks with it. Tree frog -------- Initial Taste: Bad Danger Level: None Stamina Recovery: Minimal Capture: Yes A small creature, usually found in grass, caves and swimming at the surface of lakes and ponds. Only good for recovering a tiny bit of stamina. Reticulated Python ------------------ Initial Taste: Tasty Danger Level: Low Stamina Recovery: Medium Capture: Yes The most common animal in the game. Restores good portion of stamina, and is rather easy to catch. Is known to bite in grass. Often found in grass and caves. Giant Anaconda -------------- Initial Taste: Tasty Danger Level: Low Stamina Recovery: High Capture: Yes The Reticulated Python's bigger brother. It is harder to find and gives some more stamina than it's counterpart. Other than that, it is almost the same. Indian Gavial ------------- Initial Taste: Outstanding Danger Level: High Stamina Recovery: High Capture: No The best food you can pick up during Virtuous Mission. it is hard to get because the Gavial does quite a bit of damage to Snake. It's attack knocks Snake down. When Snake gets up, you'll have a few second to get away before it repeats it's attack cycle. if you manage to kill one, you will be treated to not one piece of meat, but three! Each piece of meat recovers a large amount of stamina, capable of keeping you satisfied for ages. You cannot capture the Gavial, so don't bother. Your only way is to kill it. You'll find tons near swamps and a few lakes. WARNING: Do not come close to a Gavial in the water. If it gets a hold of you, you are dead. It is kinda fun to see Snake getting shaken around by a Gavial though. Magpie ------ Initial Taste: Bad Danger Level: None Stamina Recovery: Low Capture: Yes Really annoying to acquire, it is hardly worth the effort. It tastes bad at first, and the stamina recovery is low. If you really want one, you will have to know exactly where it is, so that you can shoot it. If you get too close, it will fly away. They usually appear in twos, in the grass or in trees. Rat --- Initial Taste: Bad Danger Level: None Stamina Recovery: Low Capture: Yes The only difference between the Rat and the Magpie is that the Rat is much easier to capture and is found in crawlspaces. Good if you want to eat something small quickly. Flying Squirrel (Thanks to Terror and Semetaire) ---------------------------------- Initial Taste: Bad Danger Level: None Stamina Recovery: Low Capture: Yes I haven't really seen this one yet, but it is confirmed to be at the beginning of Operation Snake Eater. It is found while climbing trees and gliding over. More info when I get to it, or someone tells me exactly how it tastes and how much stamina it recovers. Green Snake (Thanks to Terror) ------------------------------ Initial Taste: Fairly Tasty Danger Level: Low Stamina Recovery: Moderate Capture: Yes Another Snake, which I'm sure is like the others. I have no idea on the tase or stamina recovery, so a bit of help please? It can be found near your first encounter with The Boss. King Cobra ---------- Initial Taste: Outstanding Danger Level: Medium Stamina Recovery: High Capture: Yes Just like it's cousins, it's easy to catch, tastes good and gives good stamina recovery. This one is a bit different though because it gives more of everything, but that includes danger. When crawling in the grass, caves or vents you will often come across one. If it bites you, it will poison Snake. If you don't Cure Snake immediately, he will lose health constantly. It isn't really a big problem though, so feel free to knife the bugger. Milk Snake (Thanks to SYNTAXerror) ---------------------------------- Initial Taste: Bad Danger Level: Low Stamina Recovery: Minimal Capture: Yes Found near the building where Granin is. These are the bastard child of the snake family (No, not the clones). These aren't even worth the effort, like the Treefrogs. Parrot (Thanks to SYNTAXerror) ------------------------------ Initial Taste: Bad Danger Level: None Stamina Recovery: Minimal Capture: Yes Only found after The End battle. You can get it for your collection if you want, but once again, not worth the effort. Have fun. European Rabbit --------------- Initial Taste: Tasty Danger Level: None Stamina Recovery: Moderate Capture: Yes Found commonly later in the game, especially the area where The End is. This cute little thing is easy to find, hunt and digest. It tastes good and gives fairly good stamina. And when you kill it, it drops serum. Kenyan Mangrove Crab (Thanks to Terror and Semetaire) --------------------------------------- Initial Taste: Fairly Tasty Danger Level: Low Stamina Recovery: Moderate Capture: Yes Your average crab, it can be found in caves and water. It tastes pretty good, like all crabs, but gives fairly low stamina recovery. It also can hurt you if you get too close by pinching you with it's claws. it doesn't do much damage, and I've never even be pinched by one. You must really have to suck to get hurt by one of these. Colored Tree Frog (Thanks to IAmBeeflog) ---------------------------------------- Initial Taste: Bad Danger Level: Medium Stamina Recovery: Minimal Capture: Yes Found later in the game, anywhere there is ground. They taste bad and give little stamina. On top of that, they poison you. Throw 'em at guards, but don't eat. Vampire Bat (Thanks to IAmBeeflog) ---------------------------------- Initial Taste: Bad Danger Level: None Stamina Recovery: Minimal Capture: Yes Generally found in caves, or any other small, dank, dark, dirty places crawling with insects (read:caves). They taste bad and give craptastic stamina. Don't even bother. Bigeye Trevally (Thanks to IAmBeeflog) -------------------------------------- Initial Taste: Bad Danger Level: None Stamina Recovery: Minimal Capture: No Hey, a fish! Usually found in water, especially shallow water, kinfe it, kick it, shoot it, you'll get it. It's not one of the better fish, but it helps for your collection of eaten meats. Now, like all fish, it rots quickly. Eat fast. Markhor ------- Initial Taste: Tasty Danger Level: Low Stamina Recovery: High Capture: No A goat! More interestingly enough Para-medic says "markhor" means "snake eater" Only natural it would be here. It only appears when it's raining or at night. It's too big to be captured, so kill it. It drops not one, but 2 packs of meat. Woo! It's on par with the Gavial, only because the Markhor doesn't fight back. Actually, it kicks you if you get too close (Thanks to Kidney05) The White-Rumped Vulture (Thanks to Wingfield) ---------------------------------------------- Initial Taste: Tasty Danger Level: None Stamina Recovery: High Capture: No It's a large bird of prey that feasts on dead carcasses. It's like a flying cockroach! It's first found at the mountain, and it isn't hard to miss. If you really want one, kill a few guards. Eventually, they'll come swooping down to have a feast. You can't capture them, but when you kill one, it drops two pieces, not one. If you interrogate the guards, one tells you that a vulture that just feasted on flesh has something special... Posion Dart Frog (Thanks to dementia1029) ----------------------------------------- Initial Taste: Bad Danger Level: Medium Stamina Recovery: Special (Posion) Capture: Yes It's just like the Treefrog. Except it's more colourful and posions you! Joy! Just throw it at enemies, unless you like being posioned. Sunda Whistling-Thrush ---------------------- Initial Taste: Tasty Danger Level: None Stamina Recovery: Moderate Capture: Yes Found early in the game in Rassvet, this will be the best bird you'll hunt in a LONG time. I suggest stocking them up in cages. They taste good and recover a decent level of stamina. Cobalt Blue Tarantula (Thanks to lecacy Dude) --------------------------------------------- Initial Taste: Bad Danger Level: Medium Stamina Recovery: Minimum Capture: Yes It's so small, that it almost goes unnoticed. That is, until it stings you. It stings you quickly and it will poison you so that your health constantly degenerates. Don't even bother, unless you like throwing animals at guards. King Scorpion ------------- Initial Taste: Bad Danger Level: Medium Stamina Recovery: Minimum Capture: Yes Exactly like the Blue Spider. Thai Cobra (Thanks to xboxrocks1027) ------------------------------------ Initial Taste: Fairly Tasty Danger Level: Medium Stamina Recovery: Moderate Capture: Yes Just like the other snakes, but this one will bite you out in the open, and is rather easy to see unlike the King Cobra. Worth the effort of capture, feel free to obtain one. In the area you find them, you might need them sine the air is rather thin thousands of feet up... +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Plants +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Unlike animals, plants do not fight back, and the cannot be captured, so only the two basics will be included in the summary. Russian Oyster Mushroom ----------------------- Initial Taste: Bad Stamina Recovery: Low Can be found at logs, or tree trunks. It maintains a black appearance. It does not taste too good, but does quite a bit of stamina recovery for its size. Siberian Ink Cap ---------------- Initial Taste: Bad Stamina Recovery: Low The cousin of the Russian Oyster Mushroom, it can be found on logs and tree trunks as well, but it tastes slightly better. Golova ------ Initial Taste: Tasty Stamina Recovery: Medium A fruit, obviously found in trees. It tastes good, like most fruit and give a decent stamina increase. You can probably head out to your nearest grocery store and buy a mango, all you cosplayers out there. Russian Glowcap --------------- Initial Taste: Fairly Tasty Stamina Recovery: Special (Recharges battery!) This is an odd one. A mushroom that glows in the dark and recharges your battery. Contact Para-medic after eating one for the first time, for a very humourous conversation. Yobloko Moloko -------------- Initial Taste: Bad Stamina Recovery: Minimal The other common fruit in the game, this one is nothing like the Golova. The only similarity it has to the Golova is that they're round. And are fruits. Not worth the ammo to knock down. +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Misc. Food +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ This is the stuff that isn’t from the jungle organically. Calorie Mate ------------ Initial Taste: Outstanding Stamina Recovery: Large You start off Virtuous Mission and Snake Eater with it, and can find a few more during the missions. This is the ultimate food. It gives tons of stamina, tastes excellent and will keep you satisfied for a long, long time. Instant Noodles --------------- Initial Taste: Outstanding Stamina Recovery: Large Considered a technological marvel in the 1960's. It's cheap, easy to cook, healthy and delicious. It is among the ranks of the Calorie Mate for the ultimate food. Russian Ration -------------- Initial Taste: Bad Stamina Recovery: Large Russian-issue rations, given to its soldiers. It is reputed to tastes extremely bad, but is very healthy, recovers a lot of stamina and will never spoil. +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ FAQ +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Q: Why "Initial Taste", not "Taste"? A: Like you, or me, Snake's palette changes over time. He will grow accustomed to some food, or start o hate a food he once loved. Initial Taste is what it tastes like at first. Q: Where can I get more info about the food? A: Para-medic is extremely helpful when it comes to background information and origins of food. And it's always worth it just to see how she and Snake interact. Q: You forgot something! OR That's not right! A: And that's not a question, but contact me about it, and I will be happy to address it. Q: Every time I try to capture the Gavial, it wakes up. WTF? A: Like it says above, you cannot capture it. It is too large to carry, so it wakes up on you. Q: Why can't we eat the dogs? We can eat other strange creatures. A: Well, I don't really know. But there are many explanations for that, so pick one. My favourite is that because they were trained harshly to become guard dogs, their meat really isn't very good, and Snake knows this. +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Hunting Tips +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ First off, how to find animals. It isn't until later on in the game, you will get items to help you hunt, so you will have to rely on your eyes and ears for a while. Look at that patch of grass. No, the one farther to the left. You other left. Yeah. See that rustling? You're not causing that russling are you? Exactly, you're not. So that means there's an animal. Dive in there and find it. Okay, you've found it. Now what? Well, you can shoot it with a bullet to kill it and get its meat. Or you could tranq it and collect it whole, so it will never rot. Ever. Or you could always use the knife, which is much faster. Just crouch and hit Square. Simple, no? If you're feeling too lazy to pull out your knife, just punch-punch-kick the animal. It's faster than pulling out your knife, but also less effective. If it's a very dangerous animal, such as the Indian Gavial, I recommend shooting it. If you know what you're doing, go for the knife. Now, for plants, it's easier since they don't move. It's harder to see though. Luckily, there are mushrooms on some trees. It won't take long. The problem is finding mushrooms that won't give any negative effects and give a large stamina boost, while maintaining a smooth flavour. Now, once you get the Thermal Vision Goggles, hunting will be 10x easier. Now, just equip it, and you can see everything that can be collected in white contrast. See that white circle? That's a mushroom. You would have NEVER seen that without the NVG if you were just strolling by. There will also be some well hidden plants that restore medical supplies. Happy hunting! Koden says: "the motion detector does wonders for finding creatures in your vicinity. A better bet might be the Thermals or NVG, but if you're in the prone position crawling around and you can't see any in front of you with the goggles on, the motion detector can lead you to a rat, frog or snake. Same thing can be said about the sonar." +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Closing +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Thanks to: Konami for making this game Hideo Kojima for not giving a damn what others think The True Hero for previewing this guide GameFAQs for hosting this guide All the people for contributing. I might have had to edit some parts, but they are generally unchanged. People who can use this guide thus far: GameFAQs.com Gamespot.com ign.com This guide is Copyright (2004) to Invisible Assassin You have permission to print this guide as long as credit is given to me. Do not plagiarize please. I have worked hard on this guide and I would not like it to be passed off as somebody else's.