Kirov (DayZ)

I check every shed and so far I found one plug (they can be easily overlooked or even taken for pens) and two batteries. Apart from that, 1 jerry can, 3 tire kits and 3 tires. Seems it's not gonna be easy to drive around in .58.

I've played one private server, a Czech one called 'Patriot', for a long time. There was never any message like that there. On the top of that, for a joke the coincidence is amazing - they introduced their prank precisely when I was dying sick of gas poisoning. And I don't know if this is any indicator, but the message is in red, not white (does it really matter?). I still allow some room that this is a joke. My toon now experiences no adverse affects except for the self-soil message every half an hour. But if this is a joke, it got stale quite quickly. I believe I was right to assume that I don't play under a bunch of moronic admins with a pre-school sense of humour. But I see you're suggesting something to the contrary... ;)

Thanks for the infographic. It doesn't take into account bark and nails, is it because these are purely for leather? LOL, I run into a herd of cows and just wanted to congratulate the devs on how they react better (I didn't even get a kill) when the whole herd got stuck on a fence and then run around in circles as if coralled in invisible walls. Finished three of them with a stone knife (seems that cows got a lot more health points, too!). Yeah I know, WIP. ;)

Thanks for the replies. I still do have problems with bleaching/coloring, like, it doesn't work when it's supposed to. Disinfectant and clothse in, closed lid - what else? Do certain items block bleaching? The barrel doesn't have to be empty aside from clothes and agents, right? Because I keep more stuff there. Great to hear about the animals, they used to be my staple diet but hey, I'm happy it's gonna be an adventure in itself. Hopefully the devs cut the canned food soon. On to find some meat! Mookie: this bugged behaviour was there for as far as I remember. When an animal doesn't move at all, there's no point shooting it, there's nothing left. Come up with a melee if you're not sure. VahidkinG: there's no pooping per se, just the message about I'm soiling. At first I was dark-red 'sick' (like when you vomit or starve), then it disappeared but I still keep 'soiling' myself. One more thing - is it true what I read in some other topic that there are bugs on plants and you can spray them with disinfectants? That would be awesome but I can hardly believe it.

Hey guys, nice work with that leather outfit! Two questions here: 1) Can someone describe exactly what you need to do in order to bleach/colour clothes? I managed to do it once, but when I tried to repeat the process (armbands into a barrel, add disifectant, close lid), it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong/ 2) Where do you get your leather? Several hours in 0.58 and I still can't find a single wild animal (I caught a rabbit, tho).

A quick update: I killed a fox SW to the Black Mountain, somewhere in the vicinity of 098 037. So yet again the full array of animal trophies under my belt. :) Good hunting, lads!

I'd love to see the gamma cheat issue solved, too. I like to play nights and sometimes I find them really spooky, although I believe it got much lighter during the past year. But the first encounters with zeds by night made me shit my pants and it actually cost me some nerves to visit the Green Mountain at night, what with all the stories you hear. If everyone was bound to use some kind of light (or barely see anything without it) it would be much cooler!

I remember the other day when I hit northern Berezino on the WOBO server, always full pop. I met several freshies and low-geared folks there. Feeling particularly science-y that day, I decided to verify one of the most fundamental rules on this forum - never give ammo to stranger, especially for a gun you know he has. So I did just that twice within 10 minutes and not only I didn't get shot, I was actually given a brand new MP5K by one of the two guys (no ammo tho). The fun part was that the gun itself was similarly a gift from another guy, so we live in a place where a super rare submachine (I had never have it before) changed hands twice in Berezino on account of sheer generosity. We quickly made good friends with the guys I gave ammo to. We run around more, helped more freshies, one of them sneak attacked us, some people died, some logged off, some succumbed to zeds. After an hour, I was completely alone in Berezino, 6-8 dead guys around me, 30+ dead zeds lying in piles, an MP5K in my backpack. I had some trouble believing that that actually had happened. So instead of that narrow "never trust anyone", I follow a more general rule, "In Chernarus, anything possible can and will happen." There is literally no other sure-fire rule than that.

Do we know what we can expect when 0.58 stable hits steam? In terms of all things outdoorsman-oriented? I wonder if animals will be back. I think I read some statement by devs that animals will be as rare in the final release as regular loot.

Today I took a car from Msta and drove Polana-Dubrovka-Krasnostav-Gvozdno-Devil's Castle. I stopped many times to roam around and scout the area with binoculars and my only trophy was a deer at 084,037 (W of Gvozdno, downhill from the roadturn). I think I would expect 6-8 animals on this route in previous patches. Soon I'll give a check to the forest N of the NWAF and then I'll retrace the usual heli hunt (normally it would give 8-10 animals as well). Do you think that animals share spawning points with similar chance? Like if I found a deer, is it going to be 'mostly deer' or the chance for boars is ca similar? It's hard to say with domestic animals, I think cows have a separate spawn check and probably chickens as well, but goats, sheep and pigs can be largely interchangeable.

I need yet to find my wildgame, but in the meantime I discovered a funny thing. You know how fireplaces heat up heatable stuff like pots, guts, etc.? Well, they also heat up steaks. And before the steak is all ruined, it gets warmed up and you can "pre-heat" it in the fire (10-15 sec.) and only then put it on your stick, shaving off 15 sec. of roasting, down to 45 sec. Because dayz. Also, does anybody know where ammo to SVD is? I was looking for that goddam fox South of Veresnik but I found only a Dragunov instead...

Tatanko, you didn't say where you found your boar, I cant' find any for the love of God. I also checked that Rogovo area for foxes, spent there like an hour avoiding heli hunters, but this time to no avail.

A question a friend of mine asked me - do humans yield lard, guts or bones? :)

Have anyone seen oil barrels? The wobo wideo says they don't spawn, which was then corrected with text that they do, which probably means they super rare.

Lol, a friend of mine just had this idea that we should be able to take a dump into a well so that it gets contamined. :D

Update: at Nadezhdino, I found a chicken (S, ca 058, 109) and my first sheep (although directly in the town, at 059, 107). I failed to find anything at the southern Kozlovka valley, however I found that my usual hunting spot there - a green household at 046, 106 spawned a goat, sheep and chicken. I think that's a better place to hunt than the '1' mark you put on your map, Tatanko. Also, what's the deal with put a cooking pot in the fire? I'm sure I saw a yt video with that, somebody was cooking without any tripod or furnace (which doesn't even work, BTW). But when I tried to replicate, it just ruined my pot as usual, without cooking. Also also, you asked about sardines, Tatanko - the wobo video for 0.57 says they indeed can't be prepared now. EDIT: one snare set up in the Kozlovka valley didn't yield anything, sadly. EDIT2: goats and sheep yield 2 tanned leather each.

Logs and updates can be sometimes troublesome to follow. What's the best and easiest way to check the current status of persistence? It's changed so many times in recent months that I don't even bother to check, but it sure can be a surprise every now and then.

Oh thank God. I had what I thought a near perfect place for a tent and it was gone after two days, which was not Wednesday. So I can't answer your question as I don't know what's the persistence status now (I think it keeps changing) but at least I can say to have had the same trouble.

Yes, I noticed the behaviour you're talking about and I would approach my usual hunting grounds very carefully with a scope in my hand. And I'm still positive that many spawning points are gone, including N of Msta and W of Gvozdno. The rarity of cows (just recently I got to Mogilevka minutes after the restart and there wasn't a single one there) speaks for itself.

Have you seen those animals there in 0.57? I know the areas you're talking about and failed to see any game, really. There was like one deer nearby Devil's Castle (where usually you could find several animals). I remember when on one heli raid I could find 5-6 boars and deer, from Lopatino to North of Kamenka. I have yet to make a run in 0.57, but many of the usual spots (surefire places were the forest North of Kamenka, the deer stand North of Stary Sobor, the field NW of Zeleno) are gone now.

Another small tip: when making a campfire, harvest bigger sticks and 'split them into thirds' instead of cutting down bushes which hide your fire. This is why I always carry 2 stone knives, one is only for skinning and is always pristine, the other is for everything else.

Tatanko, great job and the only thing the above list is lacking is how much tanned leather is made from each pelt. I know for sure that cows give 3, deer and goats - 2. The rest is up to more research. Bones - I checked and yes, you can use the bone hook instead of the leather sewing kit for crafting DIY clothes. Best thing, the hook does not wear down, unlike the kit. I need yet to find a barrel and try my hand at dying clothes. Does anyone know where the barrels spawn? I timed cooking and it appears that one stick burns out per 40 seconds while roasting one fillet takes 1 minute. However, you can prolong the fire in a funny way - simply split the sticks and burn only one at the time. When it burns out, the fire continues for ca 30 seconds. Add another stick within that time and you don't even have to 'blow air'. And it's not like you're super busy when roasting, splitting sticks actually helps to kill time. ;) I checked the spawning points in Black Forest but no luck with the fox. Perhaps I'll wait with that for 0.58. Another small fact - bones do not stack, even from the same type of animal, so there is that. Also, hand drill kit works from other trees now, at least from those smaller evergreens. Tatanko, I upvoted the backpack issue you mentioned.

Thanks, that's actually really neat. As for crafting leather clothes - I did that in 0.57 without a barrel, like it used to be (lime + leather sewing kit). Maybe a barrel would streamline this, now you need like 7 cows' worth leather to craft the full set. Which is even not that extremely useful now, as the pants have only 2 slots, the jacket is not water proof and the entire set is in anti-camo colour. :)

I have two questions about the above list: 1) How do you cure sprained ankle and in what circumstances does it get sprained? 2) What does it mean exactly about oil barrels used to 'created garden lime', 'tan with more efficiency'? And the wikipedia mentions dying clothes, does it apply to that leather DYI stuff as well?

I've seen chicken, pigs, and goats at their usual spots just outside Msta to the south, but there used to be wild game north of Msta and it's gone now. Also a deer east of Staroye, on the slopes of Pustoy Khrebet (104 094). One cow each where there used to be herds, in Berezino and Mogilevka. A pig roaming through Vyshnoe. I checked many usual places looking for boars - that turn of the road east to Gvozdno, a wide perimeter around Krasnostav, the feedshack north of Pik Kozlova, the fields east of Devil's Castle - no boars nor deer. And that boar backpack is my favourite in dayz... I love the new changes for survivalists, but I'm somewhat dismayed by the scarcity of game. To craft the leather clothing set you need to run the entire map more than once - Msta, Bere, Mogilevka, oh come on. And wildlife clearly has spider senses, as Tatanko says the stealth is broken. I wanted to learn the bow so for example I could hunt in peace close to Berezino, but it seems that a decent mid-range weapon you have no chance at getting deer. However, thanks for the info about the fox, I need to put that bastard on the menu. And definitely thanks for the tip about Nadezdhino, I'm there ASAP, keep the wood in your fireplace.