Full, hungry, starving and dead (the 15 mins of dayz)

[TommyFresh]

Why do I go from full hunger to dead within 15-20 mins? Why do I die from food poisoning? So stupid how fast you die in this from hunger. Especially when you can't find ♥♥♥♥ in the starter towns so your only option is to try to run north to find better loot but you die from starvation on the way.

[etwas]

apple symbol shows full, but that only means u just not hungry anymore. u can eat way way more food and stop only when the arrows not goin up anymore. once u did that u good for some hours without any need of food.
so just kill some chickens or some other animal from the start, cook and eat it.

[Deaths]

If you pop a vitamin first you can eat ANYTHING raw.

[adamschristopher62]

best part of game if u can find vitamins ,works with charcoal pills tp ,but now we said they will play with it and stuff it

[opformaster]

If you dont wash your hands after butchering and dont have gloves on you will get salmonella.

Your first priority should be to get a knife so you can kill/butcher and collect bark to make a fire drill if you dont have matches (also saves rags for bandaging).

Dont sprint either as it only increases your food and water consumption.

[Chaoslink]

Food is literally everywhere. Starving is probably the hardest way to die in this game. You just need to know where to look and what to avoid. Don’t eat rotten forageables. Check around trees in towns. You can find apples, pears and plums. Learn to identify those trees where possible (they’re everywhere) and check them constantly. Mushrooms spawn in places like hay bales and piles or in the forests. Dried forageables are safe to eat, but don’t restore much hydration, if any, while fresh ones restore both.

That alone is enough to sustain you. Killing and cooking animals works well for the long term and fishing is a consistent way to get food as well. You should never rely on canned foods or any food you collect looting houses. The environment provides much more than looting ever could.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by The Absolute Madman:

Even all this ground forageable stuff spawns moot.

I mean, dunno what you're doing then. Its enough to get by on. The dried fruits and fresh ones both are safe to eat. You just gotta know where to look. You can find tons along the roads to keep filled up between towns.

[陈子彬]

Originally posted by TommyFresh:

Why do I go from full hunger to dead within 15-20 mins? Why do I die from food poisoning? So stupid how fast you die in this from hunger. Especially when you can't find ♥♥♥♥ in the starter towns so your only option is to try to run north to find better loot but you die from starvation on the way.

所以这个游戏改名叫死亡阴影吧So change the name of the game to Shadow of Death

[Chaoslink]

Tomatoes are mostly hydrative. You won’t get much energy from them simply because they’re so easy to farm in mass abundance. The 60-70 you found is barely one full plot worth and if you try farming yourself, you’ll find it doesn’t take much effort.

If I’m not mistaken, cooking them will increase the energy yield a bit while lowering the hydration a little. However, you’re much better off with forageables or meats. Pumpkin should offer better energy overall, but most farmed crops are best used as trail foods, eaten while jogging between towns where your hydration is often depleting slightly faster than your energy.

The current balance of farming is a little lopsided, but it is an infinite source of food. Personally, I think fishing is the current best. It provides a good balance of energy and hydration, is reliable and easy, and can be done just about anywhere. The only downside is that fish fillets take up 2x3 space each and aren’t the most compact food to travel with.

[monkey business]

Originally posted by TommyFresh:

Why do I go from full hunger to dead within 15-20 mins? Why do I die from food poisoning? So stupid how fast you die in this from hunger. Especially when you can't find ♥♥♥♥ in the starter towns so your only option is to try to run north to find better loot but you die from starvation on the way.

maybe find a game thats more your speed, food is very easy to find if you know how to play

[TommyFresh]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

Food is literally everywhere. Starving is probably the hardest way to die in this game. You just need to know where to look and what to avoid. Don’t eat rotten forageables. Check around trees in towns. You can find apples, pears and plums. Learn to identify those trees where possible (they’re everywhere) and check them constantly. Mushrooms spawn in places like hay bales and piles or in the forests. Dried forageables are safe to eat, but don’t restore much hydration, if any, while fresh ones restore both.

That alone is enough to sustain you. Killing and cooking animals works well for the long term and fishing is a consistent way to get food as well. You should never rely on canned foods or any food you collect looting houses. The environment provides much more than looting ever could.

We must be playing a totally different game then. Several hours in with 2 friends, none of us have found enough food to even get to each other. The fruit literally allows you to run about 20m before you are starving again and in order to get a decent amount you need an axe which none of us have been able to find either.

Stupid system, I'll go back to better developed survival games.

[etwas]

Originally posted by TommyFresh:

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

Food is literally everywhere. Starving is probably the hardest way to die in this game. You just need to know where to look and what to avoid. Don’t eat rotten forageables. Check around trees in towns. You can find apples, pears and plums. Learn to identify those trees where possible (they’re everywhere) and check them constantly. Mushrooms spawn in places like hay bales and piles or in the forests. Dried forageables are safe to eat, but don’t restore much hydration, if any, while fresh ones restore both.

That alone is enough to sustain you. Killing and cooking animals works well for the long term and fishing is a consistent way to get food as well. You should never rely on canned foods or any food you collect looting houses. The environment provides much more than looting ever could.

We must be playing a totally different game then. Several hours in with 2 friends, none of us have found enough food to even get to each other. The fruit literally allows you to run about 20m before you are starving again and in order to get a decent amount you need an axe which none of us have been able to find either.

Stupid system, I'll go back to better developed survival games.

again: u are starving the moment u respawn. a full apple symbol doesnt mean u are fully energized. a full apple maybe covers 10-20% of what u can actually eat.
u really just need to kill a single animal (or several chickens), have a knife (u can craft one with 2 small stones, they spawn on dirtpaths) to cut the animal and cook/eat it. the fat gives the most energy of all food. after that u will leave canned food behind.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by TommyFresh:

We must be playing a totally different game then. Several hours in with 2 friends, none of us have found enough food to even get to each other. The fruit literally allows you to run about 20m before you are starving again and in order to get a decent amount you need an axe which none of us have been able to find either.

Stupid system, I'll go back to better developed survival games.

First major rule, don’t run/sprint. Just jog. Crouchwalk or sprint only in emergencies. It burns significantly more energy per unit distance than jogging. You shouldn’t be doing it most of the time you’re playing.

When you spawn in, you should spend a little time looting the immediate area for basic supplies, especially looking for forageables. Worry about grouping up only after taking care of your immediate needs. If you’re all starving when you meet up, the food you can’t find enough of is going to have to be split between more people and it’ll be even more of an issue.

This isn’t one of those “survival” games where it’s more about raiding players bases and getting in shootouts. This is much more focused on the survival aspect. You need to be familiar with how to use the environment to survive rather than just what you can loot.

I’ve only ever starved to death once since DayZ released in early access and that once was during a short lived patch where for and water drained 3x faster than normal to the extent your stomach wouldn’t be able to process the contents faster than the energy and hydration you gained from it did. You would be starving and dehydrated to death with a full stomach. Even in that patch, only one character died of starvation during the 40 or so hours I played because things like fishing were too consistently effective.

You’re just expecting the game to spawn more food for you rather than learning how to adapt to the resources the game provides.

[=Crisis=]

I killed a cow with a knife. More food than I could carry. Sheep, chickens and goats are easy targets too.

[🆄🅽🅲🅻🅴 🅹🅾]

Originally posted by TommyFresh:

Why do I go from full hunger to dead within 15-20 mins? Why do I die from food poisoning? So stupid how fast you die in this from hunger. Especially when you can't find ♥♥♥♥ in the starter towns so your only option is to try to run north to find better loot but you die from starvation on the way.

With a 150 hrs in the game you should have figured out basic survival by now. You should also know by now that Bambi/Fresh spawn + Running = Death. There's some solid advice in the comments here, especially from Chaoslink, I suggest you follow that.

[emmietiie]

I have 200 hours in the game now, and I can say with confidence that getting a good start is down to pure luck.

People often commit suicide when they spawn in a bad spot, and these are the "good" players who use the "loot routes". I've seen them jumping from the lighthouse, purposely dying to zombies, and just sitting on the road waiting to be killed.

If you spawn out in the fields at night and it's raining, you're dead.
If you spawn in town while geared players are about, you're dead.
You will find more saline bags than you can carry, but you will never find that IV start kit.
You will waste 6 hours looking for those tetra pills. (Unless you're not sick. Then you will find 3 packs immediately)