DayZ
There is way to little loot & food
Is there a logic behind this?


I managed to find a low pop server, in wich i tried to survive.


Every house were looted, and i went all over the map. Only worn out clothes and items, guns and such, not even a chicken to kill and try to cook...

I found nothing but rotten food, useless food (milk powder etc) poison .....


I found more guns and ammo than i found food and useable clothing

Like wtf am i supposed to do?
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It's tricky at first. It might actually be easier on high pop servers since you can farm people for food (e.g., let them loot the town, then steal from them.) Fishing is also a solid way to get food and all you need to get started is a knife, a dead body, and a lake or ocean.
_KC76_ Apr 24 @ 7:48pm 
Your first mistake, is looting for food. Packaged food is a low calorie bonus .. Chickens will get you by if you're on Red food, but even a chicken only feeds you for a short time.
Fishing is probably the best thing to learn, second would be hunting farm animals (Pigs, Cows/Bulls, Sheep and Goats)
- You can trap rabbits, but like chickens, they don't provide a lot of meat.
Get a long stick, a rope, and a short stick and you can craft a fishing rod and a wooden hook .. scour the shore line for regular hooks or Jigs (no bait needed).

With a good knife, (or a bunch of small stones to keep making Stone knives), and all those old useless clothes you keep finding, you will never go hungry.
Idaho Apr 24 @ 8:06pm 
It's funny, after another 100 hours you'll hate how easy the vanilla map/official servers are...

I can go on an official server blindfolded and be end game geared and 100% well fed in 20 minutes...
Last edited by Idaho; Apr 24 @ 8:06pm
Bruh



Its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pointless


I spent hours running around, i shot one dudez looted, spent rest of tine searching for water, didnt find


Found another player, fought him, and je used cheats to kill me, blew me up a mile away or wtf
_KC76_ Apr 25 @ 3:12pm 
Originally posted by Til_Dovre_Faller:
Bruh
Its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pointless
I spent hours running around, i shot one dudez looted, spent rest of tine searching for water, didnt find
Found another player, fought him, and je used cheats to kill me, blew me up a mile away or wtf
Skill issue confirmed. Between this and your other posts, it's very clear you are bad at the game, and have more interest in trolling the forums.
Loot spawns have a timer. But the spawn must be empty. So when all you find is useless remove it and clear the loot spawn. Then, on its timer it will respawn loot. Maybe something useful... maybe not. I clear all loot on my route then go back over the same run a half hour or so later. This works nice for me. Guard towers are good they have maybe six loot spawns in them. The lists for what spawns where is on izurvive. Good hunting.
If you know a few details about fishing, it becomes impossible to starve :)
FIshing is extremely reliable, safe and easy. And accessible almost everywhere at any time. And you do not need specific items to do it.
Last edited by Homeschooliazon; Apr 26 @ 5:50am
Originally posted by Homeschooliazon:
If you know a few details about fishing, it becomes impossible to starve :)
FIshing is extremely reliable, safe and easy. And accessible almost everywhere at any time. And you do not need specific items to do it.
What about water? XD
_KC76_ Apr 26 @ 12:53pm 
Originally posted by Til_Dovre_Faller:
Originally posted by Homeschooliazon:
If you know a few details about fishing, it becomes impossible to starve :)
FIshing is extremely reliable, safe and easy. And accessible almost everywhere at any time. And you do not need specific items to do it.
What about water? XD
Find and take a Vitamin, and you can drink from ponds and streams on Chernarus and Livonia maps.
- Find Chlorine tablets, and you can fill containers from the same ponds and streams, and then purify it to make it safe.
-- For Sakhal, you need to find Chelating tablets to purify water (scooped snow) of Heavy Metals .. ans snow is everywhere.
Toki Apr 26 @ 1:14pm 
Originally posted by Til_Dovre_Faller:
Originally posted by Homeschooliazon:
If you know a few details about fishing, it becomes impossible to starve :)
FIshing is extremely reliable, safe and easy. And accessible almost everywhere at any time. And you do not need specific items to do it.
What about water? XD
A bottle of plastic or the military one and don't miss a fountain.
Originally posted by Toki's Road to 6k Elo:
Originally posted by Til_Dovre_Faller:
What about water? XD
A bottle of plastic or the military one and don't miss a fountain.
There are no fountains near the coast
_KC76_ Apr 26 @ 2:37pm 
Originally posted by Til_Dovre_Faller:
Originally posted by Toki's Road to 6k Elo:
A bottle of plastic or the military one and don't miss a fountain.
There are no fountains near the coast
WUT? .. Have you even played the game yet? There is a fountain in almost EVERY spawn town, ON THE COAST ... :steamfacepalm:

https://www.izurvive.com/#c=-13;2;3
Last edited by _KC76_; Apr 26 @ 2:41pm
Originally posted by Til_Dovre_Faller:
Originally posted by Toki's Road to 6k Elo:
A bottle of plastic or the military one and don't miss a fountain.
There are no fountains near the coast

there is plenty. its the main intended way for people to stay hydrated early game and basically being the only source of water unless zombies give you some cans (which is really good tbh)

outland is where surviving is supposed to be easy and heading inland is where it gets more difficult

i am still fairly dependent on a resource map however especially near spawn i just know where the spots are but thats the main issue you need to know where to look to get what you need
Fishing is probably the easiest source of calories in the game. But once you get good enough, you can easily fill up on food in the starter zones by farming zombies. Learn how to melee efficiently, and you can take down an entire areas worth of zombies in just a couple of minutes. Zombies also give the added benefit of dropping stuff like hatchets/duct tape/water bottle/rope/matches without having to rely on static loot spawns.

Zombies are an underrated source of loot in general. Especially hunter and military zombies. Just make sure you lure them to choke points where you can easily take them one on one instead of dealing with an entire horde in the open.
Last edited by WumboWise; Apr 26 @ 6:19pm
Idaho Apr 26 @ 8:24pm 
That's funny. The water pump in Chernogorsk is a 3 second sprint to the ocean. The pumps in Prigorodki and Electrozavodsk are also very close/within view of the ocean.

Every single coastal town has at least one pump within a 20 second sprint to the ocean.
Last edited by Idaho; Apr 26 @ 8:26pm
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