There's a few things I always pick up when I run around. Boar meats, mushrooms, blueberries and the raspberries (which are absolute units, those things are the size of an apple). I mark tons of stuff, don't know why I didn't think to mark berry bushes, that's smart

There are islands and bushes all over the map. Sail to an adjacent island, set up a portal, and mark the cluster(S) of bushes. If you find an exceptionally large patch put a stake wall around the clump. Then build a permanent portal somewhere in the middle of all those clumps. When you have good gear in an early biome just use all stamina foods. I'll do a berry run while I'm smelting if I need some kind of berries.

I kind of worried the same about bee hives but after I got 12 of them built and found another 20 queen bees I realized that they were every where and I would just have to look if I needed more.

if you utilize the map well, you'll never run out of berries.

just blip the map any time you come across a group of berries when you explore.

my map is FULL of dots labled;

• 4 raspberries
  
• 5 blueberries
  
• 3 mushrooms
  
  if you got the fenris set you can just speedrun around to shorten your berry run. berries respawn (that have been picked, destroyed bushes don't) eventually so i don't even go to everything i've labled. just run through a nearby spot every once and a while.

yes, that is the one aspect to make it slightly more difficult. start levels Blueberries and Strawberries are decent, once you get higher cook stations then the real magic happens. you can make food with 75 and 85 to health and need a lot of them so this is why they are scarce.

it does suck that the bush can be destroyed. i run around and make all the main large areas with BB and RB easy to read on map.

i think not getting seeds from planting them ok, but if it is destroyed you shud be able to plant that seed to put it back.

Yes, the devs have specifically said that you can't plant berry bushes because they want you to have to go back into those biomes. and the fewer indestructible items in world gen the better imo