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[The Zyklon Don]

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[saiyuk976]

The sound (of prey animals) is the first step in a mini game that needs to be finished before the actual animal spawns. Hear the sound, go to it and using focus (hold right click) search for the footprints on ground, examine the footsteps to trigger another sound, rinse repeat a few times and the actual creature will spawn and can be killed.

Note- Turning the chicken into food is even more drama than the mini game.

[saiyuk976]

I hear ya mate, but there are other food sources.
Orchards and veggie patches all over the place, some massive fields, some in gardens in towns. Bunkers and POIs can yield canned food and MREs. Most houses have a kitchen. Police stations have soda vending machines and coffee machines. If you're super desperate for a drink, you can sip on sea water, start drinking then cancel quickly to avoid barfing.
Airdrops can give MREs, soda, chocolate, milk, and cake. Then there's the traders where you can buy all manner of food types if you have some fame.

With the new cooking system the easiest food to cook is skewers.
This requires just a simple campfire, and the required ingredients.
The required ingredients for a meat skewer, is 1 piece of meat.
Chickens when chopped up give 2 things that don't count as meat for this recipe.
There's also a mixed skewer, which will give more nutrition than the meat skewer but requires more ingredients. meat mushrooms and veg but only certain veg counts (i used green pepper)

I find the cooking to be too much effort, my staples are MREs, milk, cornflakes, raisins, and canned tuna. I'll eat other things as I find them, but milk cornflakes and tuna are worth buying. Worth noting that milk goes off quite fast ... if you leave it in it's original container, transfer it into a small water bottle, and it won't decay (though you do lose 50% of the volume, 1 liter becomes 500ml)

[saiyuk976]

My advice ... forget the agave and cactus, and olives are too much fat (good for looting for fame but not really for eating). Southern part of the trainyard, close to the main road that runs east to west, there's a train station with many doors that can be opened with storage rooms alternating between military crates, and industrial crates. Safe from mechs, but there's usually a beeper, sometimes get food in there, also some trains have boxes with sardine cans, if you run the perimeter checking train carriages. There's some small buildings that look like air traffic control towers, can check there for water coolers and vending machines. Further west there's a handful of industrial sheds, leading to the carpark.
Better loot deeper in to the trainyard, but risky dangerous mechs.

[evil666sue]

Scum is a very slow paced game. Before a freshly spawned player thinks about raiding bunkers and fighting puppets, he/she should think about nutrition and hydration.

When those two necessities are met, and you have enough of both for the near future, you can have fun. Work first, play later. That's the reality of survival; even in real life.

Only difference is, irl you would need shelter along with your food and water. In scum you can get away with only the latter two

[saiyuk976]

If your heading west to the z1/z2 trader, you'll notice the main road goes over a bridge in the SW part of z2. As you approach the bridge keep an eye on the left (south) for a dirt path before you reach the bridge, it'll lead to a bush, behind which is a running water source I have never seen empty.

[evil666sue]

Originally posted by saiyuk976:

If your heading west to the z1/z2 trader, you'll notice the main road goes over a bridge in the SW part of z2. As you approach the bridge keep an eye on the left (south) for a dirt path before you reach the bridge, it'll lead to a bush, behind which is a running water source I have never seen empty.

That's an awesome tip. Especially considering how rare water is in the z's (unless you build a well of course)

[Dracsimus]

Awareness skill affects loot finding a bit