Whyherro123

Here is another use: making nets A net would allow you to create a specific type of trap, one that would allow you to trap animals without killing them, maybe to domesticate them? Or, string up a net between two trees in a flyway, and catch birds as they fly from spot to spot. Or, make the same trap, and trap people with it : ). Or, you know, you could fish with it, and catch a whole lotta fish.

Enjoy the karmic death you server-hopping junkie (wanted to use stronger language, but deferred.) Firstly, why server-hop to a high-pop server to look for food? Did you not want to find food? Kamishovo is both a common spawn point, and a popular "pit stop" due to the police station. Secondly, why didn't you find an apple tree and spam it? Why waste the 60+ seconds to server hop when you could just hunker down by an apple tree? Seems like you just suck at planning, and got schooled by someone who actually knows how to play....

Could've been a fire. A full-sized lumber yard a couple of blocks away from my place burned to the ground several years ago. The buildings that were left were all collapsed, with chunks of concrete, rebar, melted glass, etc laying around. A week after that, after a good solid rainstorm, that lumber yard looked like it was knocked down in WW2, and had been abandoned ever since.

Pretty much. In almost all cases of real world "survival cannibalism" (Where people eat others in order to.....well, not die, vs "ritualistic cannibalism", where the bodies of dead relatives are consumed in a religious rite), the situation was dire enough where if they didn't eat the dead (survival cannibalism happened 99% of the time when the eaten party was already deceased, AKA they weren't killed for food), they themselves would've died soon, having already exhausted all other possible sources of food. Look at the Andes plane crash, or the Donner Party: both happened in extreme climates (winter in the Andes/Rocky mountains), and they had already exhausted ALL other sources of food, including leather, certain bits of clothing, etc. Now, let us compare this to Day Z. Based upon both what we can see and what we can interact with (vegetable/cereal crops, wild forageables, animals, etc), there is more than enough food to survive, quite comfortably in fact, even if (when, hopefully), the Devs cut back canned food/soda spawns drastically. That, coupled with the moderate temperature of Autumn leading to a moderated basal metabolic rate (require less energy to keep warm than winter temps), would lead to the available food supply being more than enough. So, realistically, there would be enough food for everyone in Chernarus, without needing to turn to cannibalism. Would it require work to find, gather, grow, and hunt? Yes. You would, however, at the very least, develop a positive metabolic trend (AKA get more energy from the food than you need to "get" it), and be actually doing pretty well for yourself. So then, IMHO, cannibalism is an unrealistic, "arcade-y" (Heresy, to one whom realism and authenticity is king), and really unnecessary. Currently, there are no downsides to being a cannibal, besides a fucking creepy laugh-cry noise that the "kiddies" will probably use for S&G. No uncontrollable shaking, no clear tells that say "this guy shouldn't be trusted". Just a noise that apparently is currently bugged to be ambient (last night, some of my clan mates heard it as an ambient noise, while they were all in different parts of the map) All it does is promote KoS. There is a food and water source available in every town, and yet they make it so other players become little more than walking cows. At least make cannibalism realistically shitty. You should shake like a coke-head on a 4 day low, giggle and cry ALL the time, etc etc.

Can I just say that the laughing/crying noises cannibals make is really, REALLY fucking creepy? Heard it for the first time today...

Easy, don't leave the roads. Even the "new" towns up the northwest have signage. And, Chernarus is developed enough so that you can, with the exception of the end of the map ( The Debug Plains, but once you hit them just follow the edge and you are golden), turn in almost any direction and run, and you will come across a road eventually. (Much like New England). Also, go downhill.

From my experiences with them, set them up anywhere in grass and you are good. I built three and set them up around Dolina, and within 5 minutes all three were sprung. Protip: set up the traps near a good landmark (I used rocks in a field), so you can find them when you go looking. Buggers be small!

No, you cannot unfortunately, which quite frankly makes "reusable" ammunition (arrows, bolts, etc) moot. Hopefully this will be changed in the future.

Then......get out of there, or bring water with you? It isn't a "sad story" of survival if you actively are the reason you died.

Of course, I also believe those mechanics should be implemented for EVERYONE. The bush-wookies would just cry about it more because they sit in a damp bush for hours....

Taken from the mod, but whatever. http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1zbsks/psa_the_zombies_arent_dead_theyre_infected_living/cfsdipd

Pretty much. The only reason you can't find water is because you aren't looking particularly hard for it.

Nope, but they are saved to specific "hives" I think. Or, you are joining a server that has a shitty connection to the main hive, and are getting wiped because of it. On a slightly related note, why are you changing servers so quickly?...........

Shitbisquits, just spent an hour describing to the kids in my Troop how to tell directions without using a compass. I mainly talked about how in Autumn and Winter, in the northern hemisphere, the sun stays in the southern half of the sky......damn.

Hopefully there are significant downsides to being a Bush-wookie, which, IMHO, is an utterly pants-on-head stupid way of playing a survival game. Maybe, if you lie on the ground for any signifigant length of time, you get cold due to the ground sapping body heat from your body? Realistic and fair. Want to avoid that? Place an insulator in the form of a (bright blue) tarp beneath you, or simply move from spot to spot and avoid lying on the ground too long....

NOTE: you can also find stones around the shores of ponds, where you drink from and fill water containers. Go to the shore, back up a step, and you should get the action prompt "look/search for stones".

The environment says otherwise. I am not basing my assumption of season on the location of the game, but the physical realities of the game world. Chernarus is located in a primarily temperate, deciduous-forest ecoclimate. This is based on the plants and animals, as well as the weather patterns.Deciduous trees are slowing down the photosynthetic process, hence, the leaves are "changing color". This happens in autumn, with the process over by late November, early December at the absolute latestPlants that flower, propagate fruits or berries, or are ready for consumption in late Summer/Autumn are "ready" in standalone, or, if unable to be gathered due to game mechanics (I am looking at YOU, pumpkins..), look to be in the "ready" stage. Hence, we can pick apples, berries, and (hopefully) wheat, corn and pumpkins.Animals appear as they would in Summer/Autumn, not Winter/Spring. Deer still retain antlers (however, not every deer species loses antlers, but "temperate" ones do....), rabbits still have their "grey-brown" summer coat, and we can still hear songbirds in the trees, indicating they have not yet migrated south. The only thing we have missing is Geese migrating (In New England, seeing/hearing Geese flying ovehead and/or landing in parks en masse is a surefire way to know the seasons have changed)Ponds and streams are not yet frozen over, and in fact still contain photosynthetic algae, organisms that would be dead after the first freeze. NOTE: Just because it is Autumn, and not Winter, doesn't mean it doesn't get cold, or survival is easy. Yes, during a sunny Autumn day, it would likely be about 50 degrees F, but go into the shade, get wet (rain), or stay out past the sun falls, and it will get VERY cold, VERY fast. In October in southern New England, we had frost on puddles in the street in the morning, a couple of weeks before the 1st frost of the season (which happened for my area November 8th-ish. These frosty puddles melted fast, especially once the sun came up, but it still got COLD during the nighttime.

Where do you get that from? There is nothing "clear" about it, which is why there are 4 pages in this topic, and numerous other topics concerning this exact subject matter.

Yes, unfortunately. I actually think slapping labels on different playstyles is part of the problem. When I build a fire so I don't get hypothermia, and to cook some food, I am not "playing Day Z PvE." When I pull out my revolver to defend my well-earned venison from that guy trying to rob me of it, I am not "engaging in some Day Z PvP." I am SURVIVING. Literally everything you do in this game is aimed at surviving as long as you can, with the exception of gratuitous and unnecessary PvP. Note: I find a difference in "necessary" and "unnecessary" PvP. Necessary PvP includes defending oneself, fighting to defend a resource, etc, while unnecessary PvP includes camping in Berezino, hunting people down for shits and giggles, etc. Which is why allowing player-driven industries (farming, trading, actual industries (lumberyards, factories churning out equipment and ammunition, etc), would lead to a burst of "Necessary PvP, as people would band together to both defend these locations, or to take and control/rob them.

No processed food? Good. "Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan. It.....really isn't all that difficult to find the materials necessary to hunt. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I found all the materials I needed to make a bow and improvised backpack (axe, ashwood stick, knife, 2 pieces of rope, and a burlap sack) in Solnichny, 3 hours after the server restart. It is there, you just have to actually look for it. Most of the small "backyard buildings" spawn literally everything you need for survival. Check some buildings other than the "good loot spawns", and you will be surprised at what people leave behind. Survival isn't a right. Survival is a privilege. You actually have to earn it through hard work. Protip: not everyone finds foraging boring. I love it, and hope they add actual realistic levels of 'foragables", so I can go all hunter-gatherer while you guys bicker and starve over canned food because you never bothered to learn anything different. Thing is, foraging for wild plants and animals takes effort and know-how. Eat the wrong plant, or the wrong part of the right plant, and you will die. Animals, surprisingly enough, don't want to be eaten, so trapping them is often difficult. Maybe the Devs could include "plant guides", showing and describing edible plants, and expand on tracking and trapping small and large game.

Exactly. The buildings in Chernarus don't seem all that bad, in my opinion. Most houses are certainly in better shape than my own! And, what exactly is wrong with a log cabin? (for the poster you quoted) They are easily built, easily heated, comfortable, etc. Hell, there are companies in the American West that charge big bucks to build you a customized log cabin!

Oh, I know what it is. I've just never heard it called that before.

Oh JESUS, yes to that last part.

They are your friends, and you know each other aren't going to be bothered much by it. Doing it to random people you meet in-game, however, is a rather different story. Just my opinion.

It isn't December, simple. Take a look at the trees, and the foliage, and the other vegetation. It is mid-October, November at the latest. If it was December, there would be no leaves on the trees, and most of the vegetation would be dead. To make it "look" like December, the devs would have to change literally ALL of the tree and grass models in-game, which in turn could push the game back even farther.