Food

[TheCrazyGuyWithA50CAL]

Whats the deal with food in this game? I cant find any, and I'm starving to death with 30minutes of spawning in. Just makes the experience unplayable.

[baddoggs]

Have you tried to fins apples under the trees in house yards?
Greenhouses spawn food. Every town has a chicken you can catch.
I have killed cows with an axe for food.
Cans and packets are only 1 minor way to feed yourself.

[Enforcer]

500 hours you should already know some basics by then where f.e. to find food.

[baddoggs]

With the new food items added in recent updates it is even more easy
to find food. I remember when i started playing... there was a lot less
"packaged food" Plus i really sucked at hunting.. I starved a lot playing solo.

[rustyOkin]

Seriously at this point when people complain about starving it's simply just a skill issue.
Yeah sometimes you can get unlucky with spawns but once you have got a knife you are pretty much fine. I think most people either don't have the patience to cook or just don't know how to cook. I have no other explanation why people still starve in this game after so many years

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Three main ways to get food...

Foraging - Look for loose apples and pears under the right type of trees. These have good hydration but low nutrition.

Looting - Looting through buildings will yield some food, you can also kill zombies who have a chance for some food on them. Most of the canned food has good nutrition, and will not go rotten.

Hunting - To hunt you need a kinfe, kill a chicken with it. Now gut the chicken and take the meat. Next you have to cook it so, using your knife, cut a bush for sticks then cut bark off a thick tree. Combine your sticks and bark to a fireplace. Combine sticks and bark again to craft a fire starter kit. Last cut a large bush with the knife, get a long stick and sharpen it. All thats left is to light the fire, put the meat on the stick, and cook it.

IMPORTANT NOTE - If you gut a animal without gloves on, you will need to wash your hands. If you dont you will get sick eating with those dirty hands.

I find it best to mix up all 3, so il loot/forage my way through a town, hitting the fruit trees and buildings for food. Once i have the knife il slow down on the first two (but not stop using them) and start to use hunting more. Once i have a gun i can move 100% to hunting, not really viable at the start because all you can kill are chickens.

The knife really is such an important tool, as well as a bottle. Get those two and you shouldnt really ever starve or die to thirst again. They are by far my 2 most essential items as a fresh spawn.

Hope some of that helps :)

[Havok]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Three main ways to get food...

Hunting - To hunt you need a kinfe, kill a chicken with it. Now gut the chicken and take the meat. Next you have to cook it so, using your knife, cut a bush for sticks then cut bark off a thick tree. Combine your sticks and bark to a fireplace. Combine sticks and bark again to craft a fire starter kit. Last cut a large bush with the knife, get a long stick and sharpen it. All thats left is to light the fire, put the meat on the stick, and cook it.

IMPORTANT NOTE - If you gut a animal without gloves on, you will need to wash your hands. If you dont you will get sick eating with those dirty hands.

This ^

Hunting, and being able to do so successfully, whether it be chickens, sheep, cow, wolves, deer, is going to be the main way you survive once youre geared.

What also makes a difference is the server you are playing on. If youre playing a modded server with modded loot pools, youre likely going to find more food than say something on a vanilla server

[TheCrazyGuyWithA50CAL]

Originally posted by Enforcer:

500 hours you should already know some basics by then where f.e. to find food.

Thats arma 2 dayz. I'm coming back to standalone having not played it in years.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

A little extra thing i forgot to mention is fishing. This can be quite easy to get geared for as you can make a hook from the chicken bones and i believe hook+ long stick+rope makes a fishing rod, you see the proper rods quite often on the coast in shipping containers as well.

Personally i avoid fishing, just because i dont like the idea of sitting out in the open at a water source surrounded by treeline. Feels too exposed, leaving the treeline to gut an animal is a tense enough for a hermit player like me haha

[Klutch]

i picked up all the fruit, i would smoke the rotten stuff and it seemed edible. i had a whole room full of baked, burnt, dried and rotten fruit and basically spent a week in the same town

[KNUCKLE]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

A little extra thing i forgot to mention is fishing. This can be quite easy to get geared for as you can make a hook from the chicken bones and i believe hook+ long stick+rope makes a fishing rod, you see the proper rods quite often on the coast in shipping containers as well.

Personally i avoid fishing, just because i dont like the idea of sitting out in the open at a water source surrounded by treeline. Feels too exposed, leaving the treeline to gut an animal is a tense enough for a hermit player like me haha

Fishing is a great way to get an early big meal. You can also make a rope from two stacks of 6 rags. Don't forget to dig up worms for your bait.