The starvation rate is INSANE in this game.

[Trogzilla]

The average person can last 7 days without water, and 30 days without food before dying from starvation/dehydration. You will starve to death in this game within 1 day. It's outrageous.

[_Red_Haze_]

Stop sprinting everywhere and you'll last much longer.

[Chaoslink]

So if you didn't have to eat for like 7 in-game days on a server with realistic 24 hour timescale, what would the point of hunger even be?

Realistic =/= fun.

[SireSteelHell]

and u can run and sprint (when you have stamina) everywhere forever as long as you have food water... this is outrageous

[SireSteelHell]

you can use old rags to fix gunshot wounds and come back to full health.. this is outrageous...


get over yourself mate,, this is a game.. choose an easier server if you cant handle the game..

[DYLZAAH]

Shout out to the og’s that can actually handle themselves, eat good and stay alive! Food - you will find in small houses, ruined cars, beside boats on coast+ more. Don’t expect much from industrial areas/bigger buildings. Zombies often drop useful items and food!

The best plan is to quickly make your way inland. (Areas will less likely to have been looted) also you find more animals inland. Kill animals, make fires.. Last resort: Eat other survivors.

[SgtShrimp]

Are you the guy that had the Enduro Helmet on and asked me to open your can of spaghetti and then when I realized: eh he's probably harmless, i'll open his spaghetti for him- dude just keels over so I got some free spaghett and a laugh. Just like in life, DayZ requires persistence. If I didn't keep persisting then I wouldn't have found a blaze, BK-43 and some food in a matter of literally 39 minutes in Grabin of all places. It's definitely possible to survive and I've only got 300+ hours in this game so I am not a veteran or a pro unlike some of the real DayZ veteran guys/gals.

[SireSteelHell]

as long as you find a knife you are ok...died a few times on hardcore servers from starving only because i didnt find a knife... knife is life in dayz

[🆄🅽🅲🅻🅴 🅹🅾]

Originally posted by Gimli of Groin:

The average person can last 7 days without water, and 30 days without food before dying from starvation/dehydration. You will starve to death in this game within 1 day. It's outrageous.

It's not real life now is it? It's a video game, with certain predetermined rules and mechanics, you either learn to adapt and roll with those, or you walk away.

[2High2tell]

For new players, it is a learning curve. Although I think the food rate is okay, My prob. with the mechanics is when u start half full of food, you have to eat 2- 6 course meals to get full. Once u are full maintaining that is easy as hell.

I play on a HC server where fighting zombies even geared is something to avoid, drop rate (loot) is turned down to next till nill. I often die 3-4 -5 times as a fresh spawn trying to get food or water. I do not see that as bad, maybe luck of the draw. luck on where u spawn, luck if it is raining or not. and even luckier if you are within 2k of your old body. Sometimes skill is not enough. Luck is your bests friend or worst enemy.

[Ranceed]

Originally posted by Gimli of Groin:

The average person can last 7 days without water, and 30 days without food before dying from starvation/dehydration. You will starve to death in this game within 1 day. It's outrageous.

Imagine you wash up on a beach and you haven't had a drink in 6 days and no food for 29 days. Now go survive.

Stay as warm and dry as you can. Being cold causes you to shiver which burns food quickly. Don't sprint (unless neccesary) it uses up a lot more food and water than jogging. Don't loot every building at the coast, just make your way to the water pump and keep drinking, then loot the area around it and come back and drink some more. Big buildings are not worth checking at spawn. Check all the trees in the gardens of small houses. They will spawn fruit. Listen out for chickens. Fruit and chickens are your main source of food until you can fish or find larger animals. Count tinned food as a bonus.

Its easier to collect fruit, kill chickens (and other farm animals), and find the water pump in the smaller villages.

[tyber_gsk]

Originally posted by Gimli of Groin:

The average person can last 7 days without water, and 30 days without food before dying from starvation/dehydration. You will starve to death in this game within 1 day. It's outrageous.

Holly ♥♥♥♥.
I dont know where this stats are coming from.
Whats it gonna be next yrs. 20 days without water and 60 days without food..?
Average person will die after 3 days max 4 without water and 14 days without food.
The weakest people coming from citys..as they eat fck 4000-6000 kcal a day.. when you cut food suplay to them, they die quickly.
But back to the point.
Time in the game is increased x3 or even x5 depending of the server. So keep that in mind.

And all you need is to learn the game bit more.
Fishing, hunting is the best way to get food suplay..
My character eat normally ones a day, drink twice a day.
Witch to me make sense..

[ast]

Originally posted by tyber_gsk:

The weakest people coming from citys..as they eat fck 4000-6000 kcal a day.. when you cut food suplay to them, they die quickly.

just remember the magic 3:

3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food.

[Sams]

Originally posted by tyber_gsk:

Time in the game is increased x3 or even x5 depending of the server. So keep that in mind.

Just as a sidenote here, the time acceleration does not affect the starvation rate at all.
Besides, even at 5x you'd be dead unrealistically quick. Average person can easily go on for 24 hours without starving to death.

[tyber_gsk]

Originally posted by Sams:

Originally posted by tyber_gsk:

Time in the game is increased x3 or even x5 depending of the server. So keep that in mind.

Just as a sidenote here, the time acceleration does not affect the starvation rate at all.

True.
But the starvation rate in the game is set to match day/night cycle me think..at least on official servers.

[Enforcer]

Originally posted by Gimli of Groin:

The average person can last 7 days without water, and 30 days without food before dying from starvation/dehydration. You will starve to death in this game within 1 day. It's outrageous.

How long is an accelerated day in game? How fast do you heal a gunshot wound? How far and long can you sprint with 50kg of stuff?