Not a survival game that's a dying game.

[no]

After eight hours of playing the last two days every time I went back in I tried different settings and different ways of playing the only thing is there's just lack of items and it's mostly food. I can go through small development and find absolutely nothing. Did look for some mods for this game but there is none? In seven days to die I usually die because of the zombies in this game I die because of hunger. If I bleed to death that's my fault for not playing it properly I can accept that?

If you're a single player and you like seven days to die you might not like this game you will like the concept and the way it's played but you will not like it because there's no items to be had? Even Dayz has more items than this game. Like I said I will play it a little bit more I suppose but I will probably put it on the back burner and just keep an eye on updates until they add more stuff I guess. I would not recommend, if you don't like eating food and a big challenge of dying this is the game for you right here. Hoot

[CIRILLA]

fishing is good for eating

[no]

Originally posted by KATSUMOTO:

fishing is good for eating

Not even able to get to that point. I even started building a base by the time I got done building some of my base my food level was in red so you go around the forest looking for food and the only thing you can find in these trunks is some worms or grasshoppers and there's really not enough in there to fill you up and most of the trunks don't have anything in them.

So I don't have time to be building no fishing rod or looking for a fishing rod because just trying to get to the basics of some food is a job in itself. To me and probably just me being established is a big thing for me. Some of these guys wanna jump in and just kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill. You play that way and you're gonna get killed really fast.

Any survival game I play I like to be established that's my main goal. Getting established in this game is really really not possible for me. Not totally given up on it I still have it installed and I will probably try it a few more times before I put it on the back burner? I did give this game a thumbs down and I don't recommend it because it doesn't have the items in it in order to play it. Hoot

[no]

Originally posted by Dies Fourth:

SP or MP ?

One thing I liked about this game was single player gives you a chance to learn how to play it before you can go in and start shooting other people. I was able to be more relaxed and comfortable not worried about other people trying to shoot me while I'm trying to learn the game. I wished more multiplayer games would do this give you a single player game to give you a chance to learn how to play it so you can go in and shoot them up if you want to or you can stay playing single. I've tried other multiplayer games the minute you get in bam you're dead. I don't wanna play game that way. Give me a chance to learn it and then I might be willing to go in and shoot it up. The only real multiplayer game I play is red dead online. Single player. Hoot

[CrankyOldMan]

There are farms all over the place that grow corn, sunflowers, broccoli, cabbage, potatoes, parsnips, carrots, grapes, onions-there are trees that grow fruit you wont find food in the buildings that much at all!

[CrankyOldMan]

If you are playing single player you can make adjustments in your ini file for a lot of things! But yeah the game as standard official is no joke!

[no]

Originally posted by CrankyOldMan:

There are farms all over the place that grow corn, sunflowers, broccoli, cabbage, potatoes, parsnips, carrots, grapes, onions-there are trees that grow fruit you wont find food in the buildings that much at all!

Yes I came across a couple gardens but checking everything in the garden there's nothing there in some of these gardens. Came across an onion but it was the only onion in the whole garden. Came across the cucumber only cucumber in the garden. Same with grapes. You have to spend time searching through all of this. Trying to balance it out in this game is a little tough for me and I'm not able to do it.

I sit and watch people play on YouTube and man these guys got it down pat they know exactly where to go what to do how to do it but they've been putting in how many hours I'm just starting. There's even mushrooms. Problems are not so much the zombies because I didn't feel there was very many of them. I have no idea how the game progresses so I don't know if more zombies come into the picture or not but starting out there's not very many at all. Compared to seven days to die I have that on extra zombies so they're zombies almost constantly. Just me.

[no]

Originally posted by D̶a̸ ⁧⁧v̴i̸i̵d̸o̷v̶:

No joke? It's literally a joke. You cannot do anything and you will die 100%. If you have to adjust the settings via unconventional way, you are not suppose to do it. This game is not for single player.

I agree but I thought single player gave you the chance to learn the game so you could go in and kill everybody if that's what you wanted to do. All the game needs to me is just a few more items that's all. Hoot

[no]

Originally posted by D̶a̸ ⁧⁧v̴i̸i̵d̸o̷v̶:

Originally posted by Yosemite Sam:

I agree but I thought single player gave you the chance to learn the game so you could go in and kill everybody if that's what you wanted to do. All the game needs to me is just a few more items that's all. Hoot

You are better of playing on a server best unofficial. YOU survive longer on a server WITH players than singleplayer.

Do you get more items when you play with players? I don't like the idea of trying to learn how to survive when I don't know how to survive when I have people that are on here that do know how to survive that is gonna shoot my Butt. Hoot

[no]

Originally posted by D̶a̸ ⁧⁧v̴i̸i̵d̸o̷v̶:

Originally posted by Yosemite Sam:

Do you get more items when you play with players? I don't like the idea of trying to learn how to survive when I don't know how to survive when I have people that are on here that do know how to survive that is gonna shoot my Butt. Hoot

Servers= No surviving needed. No need for food, no need for vitamines
SIngle player= surviving. and dying 100% of the time.

I see. I love the survival aspect of it that's why I bought the game. Watching others play it and playing it yourself is totally different. Been looking into my own server. Learning process for me so I'm still searching it out. From what I understand if I have my own server I can set the game up pretty much the way I want I'm not sure on that but that's what I think I've learned so far. Hoot

[thomas_1611]

Food is super easy in this game if you know some of the tricks:

1) Get a bag of salt from the salt ponds or a trader.
2) Hunt an animal or buy a 10/10 steak from trader.
3) Collect guts from the hunted animal or from a puppet.
4) Highlight the salt and the steak in your inventory. Right click menu, choose "craft salted [animal] steak". Note that even if your raw steak is almost completely spoiled, the resulting 1/1 salted steak will have 100% durability, meaning it is perfectly "fresh".
4) Highlight the salted steak, the guts, and a water container. Right click menu, choose "craft sausages".
5) Craft 2 more salted steaks from the 10/10 raw steak.
6) Combine these two steaks with a long stick to produce a "small meat skewer"

If you eat these as soon as you craft them, there's no need to cook, you will not get food repulsion. If you eat both the sausages and the skewer, you will go from 0% nutrition to 100% very fast as they are both very high calorie foods.

I expect that all of this will change when they rework the food system, but for now this is the best way to keep fed. All you have to carry on you is a raw steak and a bag of salt. Whenever you're hungry you kill a puppet for the guts and you chop a tree for the long stick.

Keep in mind that the sausage quality will be based on the lowest % durability item used to craft it, so you want to make sure that the water container you use is near 100%... the salted steak is 100% when you make it, and a fresh puppet guts will be 100% too, so the only thing that the sausage can inherit bad durability from is the water container.

[thomas_1611]

Originally posted by D̶a̸ ⁧⁧v̴i̸i̵d̸o̷v̶:

no need for vitamines
SIngle player= surviving. and dying 100% of the time.

Follow my meat method above. If you're worried about the vitamins, buy milk and kiwi from the trader.

[thomas_1611]

Originally posted by D̶a̸ ⁧⁧v̴i̸i̵d̸o̷v̶:

Im not even past the stick phase. make stick and bag. walk in forest die. 5 time already.

Friend, SCUM is a hard game, and it doesn't hold you by the hand. Once you understand some of the basic mechanics of survival it will not seem hard to survive. Give it some time to learn the basics.

First off, don't start building a base right away.

Craft your courier bag and search fallen logs to eat larvae and crickets to keep your energy up. Then loot a town for some gear. Bring that stuff to the trader and buy the meat and salt, and you'll be golden.

[thomas_1611]

Originally posted by D̶a̸ ⁧⁧v̴i̸i̵d̸o̷v̶:

golden? You are kidding. or changing game settings. Walk through forest Die of wolfs, die of bear, die of 3 zombies, dark see nothing die of zombies, YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING

Okay you better give up then. Its definitely not your approach that is wrong, clearly its all the dev's fault. *eyeroll*

[Trip]

Wow, I have never had a problem surviving in SP, I end up with a surplus of food. Its dead easy to find. If you come across animals to kill for meat then its even easier as you end up with way more than you need.
Best advice=look more.

[CrankyOldMan]

I have near 5200 hours in scum and have played on multiple servers from official to player run 10x servers. I have never had a death related to no food or no water!
This is a SURVIVAL GAME not a run and gun!