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I just started to play the dayz mod on a Vanilla server, and for all intents and purposes its the most raw dayz experience server i could find: You start with 2 bandages and 10 flares. While playing and trying to gather gear, I noticed that food and water went down fast, but more specifically water. I could barely travel from one town to another before I was forced into a scramble to find supplies or a water pump. So my question to you veterans out there is this: How do you deal with this? I really want to get beyond the basic food and water search and attempt to accumulate some of the cooler gear out there but every time I come alive there is a mad cycle I always go through: 1) Spawn 2) Go to nearest town to get basic gear (Such as Kamenka) 3) Travel to bigger town to get better gear (Zelenogorsk) 4) Pursue a mad scramble to find water and get killed in the process. 5) Wash my hands and repeat Guidance would be much appreciated.