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Contents 1 Infinite Food 2 Free Skin 3 Fall without taking damage 4 Infinite Sword Trick

[edit] Infinite Food

It might not sound like much, but in Gothic food both restores Life and is also used as a currency of sorts in the bartering system. In other words, with unlimited food you're financially set for life, and you need never fear suffering from wounds again! So what's the secret?

1. Kill a Scavenger or Molerat, very easy prey.
2. Get the Raw Meat.
3. Go to any of the camps and look for a cooking Pan. It's those grey little things stewing over a fire. Now stand in front of it, and it should say "Pan".
4. Open your inventory and select "Raw Meat". Hold the Use button down, and you should crouch before the pan, as if you were going to cook the Raw Meat with it.
5. Do NOT press  ↑  or initiate any action, just let go of the Use button. Now look at your inventory again and look at your Raw Meat. It's now double the quantity!
6. Repeat. So if at first you have 1 Raw Meat, after this you will have 2 Raw Meat! Nice. After a while you'll have hundreds then thousands, that should be more than enough to keep you financially and healthily fit for the rest of the game. And if not, just find another frying pan.

It's unclear whether you can exceed 65,000 pieces, since games usually use a Short for these quantities, which lets values go up to some 65,000+. Unlike some games the value will never become negative or roll over to zero. 65,000 should be more than enough, anyway.

[edit] Free Skin

You actually don't need this trick after learning the Raw Meat trick above, but it's good for laughs.

1. Learn "How to Skin Reptiles" from Drax or whoever.
2. Go to the Brotherhood swamp camp. Run to the swamp and find a swampshark.
3. Run close to the shark and have it chase you. Run towards the Templars. If they stop chasing run back to them and hit them or just make them chase you again. This can be hazardous but with practice you can do it.
4. Watch a Templar whack Shark and then pick up the skin when it's dead. That's a free 100 Ore!

For fun, lead the shark over to the novices and the Baals harvesting swampweed, and watch it kill them (if they don't run away). Since some NPCs are needed for quests, saving after isn't advisable.

This trick works with any monster actually, but it is quite dangerous to try it with some enemies (like Snappers, who are faster than you!)

[edit] Fall without taking damage

It is possible to fall from any height without taking any damage. Simply hold ← or → strafe and you should land without taking any damage.

[edit] Infinite Sword Trick

Another way to get infinite ore (it does require a small amount of ore to set up though).

1. In the old camp go to the blacksmith.
2. Buy some raw steel (40 ore)
3. Smelt it in the fire
4. Hammer it on the anvil
5. Cool it in the water bucket
6. Sharpen it on the grindstone

You should now have a sword, which sells for 50 ore, which is a 10 ore gain.

While holding Ctrl, if you press  ↑  repeatedly when doing any of the steps needed to make the sword you may be able to make it to the next step without wasting the previous material. For example, when smelting the steel in the fire, you could have the hot steel and still have the raw steel.

Another way of doing that is to select the item (raw steel, glowing steel or blade) to its corresponding tool (furnace, anvil or grindstone) and just hold Ctrl for a while, then release it, just like the trick with the raw meat.