Sharpening stones?

[adf]

So I've already searched the topic here in the forums and read what folks have to say about where they seem to predominantly spawn.

But I guess I want to ask a few questions anyway, seeing as I have 87 hours in the game so far and have yet to come across a single one. And yes, I have checked dozens upon dozens of outhouses.

So I guess my first and perhaps only question for now is are they available in the non-modded original Cherno map? I'd like to use them on saws so I don't keep blowing through saws left and right, but they seem to be rarer than a precious stone.

[kolorotur]

Yeah, they do spawn on vanilla Cherno map, but they are somewhat of a rare find indeed.

[mud]

can find them in more than outhouses (any farm location), but outhouse does seem to be the predominate spawn imo. another possibility is there is already max amount spawned, just about everything has a max limit that can spawn on a map. sharpening stones is like 65-80 (min/max) so i would say you should be able to find one, but if other players are hording then it can be a hard find.

[𝓢𝓱𝓲𝔃𝓫𝓾𝓽𝓽]

Anything you look for has a way of hiding in Dayz. Sometimes the simplest of things can take a day or two to find.

[PorkChop]

I have only found them in outhouses and since this last patch they seem to be very rare. If they spawn anywhere else they probably would be to hard to find.

[Apple]

Loot spawn in dayz is tricky. Good players tend to focus on using what they find to the max of its potential instead of trying to find a very spesific items (Exept if you are playing with a zerg) However to your luck sharpening stones are not very rare and you should come across one if you travel couple of towns. You can use this website to help you what towns spawns what items in Dayz https://wobo.tools/dayz-loot-finder-tool.php?loot=Whetstone(Sharpening%20Stone)%20&map=chernarus#selectbox

[adf]

Thanks for all of the replies. I've probably cleared 6 or 8 towns completely, a few of them multiple times. Still have yet to come across a sharpening stone. All of the replies seem to agree they're out there, so I'll just keep looking/looting.

[adf]

Originally posted by Apple:

Loot spawn in dayz is tricky. Good players tend to focus on using what they find to the max of its potential instead of trying to find a very spesific items (Exept if you are playing with a zerg) However to your luck sharpening stones are not very rare and you should come across one if you travel couple of towns. You can use this website to help you what towns spawns what items in Dayz https://wobo.tools/dayz-loot-finder-tool.php?loot=Whetstone(Sharpening%20Stone)%20&map=chernarus#selectbox

Thank you for the link and map. Towns that I've cleared repeatedly show on the map as being towns that are supposed to have them. I guess just bad luck so far.

[Benny]

Found one the moment i stopped looking for it.

[adf]

Originally posted by Benny:

Found one the moment i stopped looking for it.

Nice! I still haven't found one, and I've cleared the majority of another city.

[Kisamefishman]

Originally posted by adf:

Originally posted by Benny:

Found one the moment i stopped looking for it.

Nice! I still haven't found one, and I've cleared the majority of another city.

Yeah everytime I stop looking for one I find it all the time I hate it when its like that.

[_KC76_]

"cleared several towns" is rather vague .. they must be the correct type of town. You will not find many if any in large towns/cities .. you will find them in small villages, or farms, or hunting stands/cabins .. very rural items. Same as you will not find "military" items on a farm, nor "industrial" items in a hunting cabin. Each ClassName has an associated Category where it will spawn.

[Pike1263]

The sad fact of the matter in vanilla DayZ is the loot tables are awful. One run through I can't find sharpening stones (or other items), next run through and the crap's falling out of the sky.
The loot tables have absolutely no balance to them whatsoever and I've had the same results in high to low public servers as well as my own dedicated server where I was the only player in the map. I tested it on purpose.
Don't expect much from BI. This mod disguised as a game plays like it's still in early access. That's why there's so many mods for it that keep it afloat and a couple actually fix things that BI can't seem to figure out. Without modders, DayZ wouldn't have lasted nearly this long.
But BI did do a great job on the official maps. The mechanics...not so much.

[Apple]

Originally posted by Pike1263:

The sad fact of the matter in vanilla DayZ is the loot tables are awful. One run through I can't find sharpening stones (or other items), next run through and the crap's falling out of the sky.
The loot tables have absolutely no balance to them whatsoever and I've had the same results in high to low public servers as well as my own dedicated server where I was the only player in the map. I tested it on purpose.
Don't expect much from BI. This mod disguised as a game plays like it's still in early access. That's why there's so many mods for it that keep it afloat and a couple actually fix things that BI can't seem to figure out. Without modders, DayZ wouldn't have lasted nearly this long.
But BI did do a great job on the official maps. The mechanics...not so much.

bro this is dayz. The point of the game is in its randomness. If every Item couldve been found on spesific spots than we mith aswell just slap on some textures and call it rust. Its not like you get what you need instead you get what you find.

[Pike1263]

Originally posted by Apple:

Originally posted by Pike1263:

The sad fact of the matter in vanilla DayZ is the loot tables are awful. One run through I can't find sharpening stones (or other items), next run through and the crap's falling out of the sky.
The loot tables have absolutely no balance to them whatsoever and I've had the same results in high to low public servers as well as my own dedicated server where I was the only player in the map. I tested it on purpose.
Don't expect much from BI. This mod disguised as a game plays like it's still in early access. That's why there's so many mods for it that keep it afloat and a couple actually fix things that BI can't seem to figure out. Without modders, DayZ wouldn't have lasted nearly this long.
But BI did do a great job on the official maps. The mechanics...not so much.

bro this is dayz. The point of the game is in its randomness. If every Item couldve been found on spesific spots than we mith aswell just slap on some textures and call it rust. Its not like you get what you need instead you get what you find.

Yeah, I get that and I don't deny it. And a good player/survivor makes due with what is found.

Plainly speaking, my point is...and this is just my take on it...they went too far with that notion where I feel it's too far out of balance. It can be random without going to extremes.

When I bought the game, folks were saying it was the most realistic survival game out there. I don't feel that it's at all realistic. Realistic to me means it makes sense in real world terms. The best example is water bottles. There's billions of them in the real world, ergo I don't feel, on any given run through, I should be 2 - 3 hours (sometimes more) into my run before I find one. Other runs, they're all over the place. But I can consistently find Wellies, raincoats, Capri pants, and carnival masks in abundance on every single run. Not everyone owns Wellies, a raincoat, Capri pants, or a carnival mask in the real world.

It's also been said that DayZ is hardcore. I disagree with that too. Once I got my bearings, the environmental aspect of survival in DayZ became stupidly simple. There's nothing hardcore about it to me.

I feel some things were overthought and some, hardly at all and in order for both of those claims, realistic and hardcore, to be true, there needs to be a balance struck that I don't see in DayZ.

On a different note, I think BI needs to lazer focus on bugs and performance issues and actually make progress in that regard. Adding a lot more content or making further "tweaks" with the existing problems will likely create more problems. One example is that I'm still seeing infected clipping through doors and other "solid" objects and have been killed as a result. You don't put new plugs in your car if your timing is off. The 1.20 update was supposed to have focused on bugs and performance. All I see is more of the same and some new issues.

Don't take all this as me hating on DayZ...I really like it. I simply don't feel it lives up to it's reputation. Gamers have become complacent in regard to demanding tangible results from developers and it shows. I think BI needs to up their game. Then DayZ could conceivably be the best survival game ever made. Unfortunately after 10 years, I think they'd have to put out part 2 to make that happen and not lean on modders to prop up their product.

[Meriwether]

Not a flex, but I found two in adjacent outhouses, so I can confirm that they are still spawning.