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As long as you have no downward arrows indicating a decline in your health, and your blood level is slowly increasing then you should get back up I think. However, it's NOT a quick thing. Blood takes a long time to go back up and I THINK it's related to health regeneration. So, give it time. I'm sure someone more experienced in the game can give you more info, I still consider myself very new. Good luck!

So, some really good responses and I thank you all. I've watched those videos and learnt a bit, although the 'waiting' bit it going to be tricky, not impossible but tricky as i'm always struggling with food and water. I don't really look for weapons right off the bat, I look for melee things I can use against zombies for food, especially a knife so I can kill chickens, build a fire and eat. I'm always in awe of people who say there's too much food around. That's coming from an experienced point of view surely, because as a newbie, food and water is always on my mind over weapons and ammunition. Once I have a knife, I feel a lot better because you then have everything you need to start fishing and cooking. That at least gives you something to aim for. I also like the idea of a private server, or a server where everyone is just looting and killing infected as opposed to each other. For now, i'll carry on with the game. But i'm still feeling as though luck plays heavily into it, at least for me.

Newish player here, playing from the UK. I think DayZ is indeed, an excellent game but it seems to me that it's a pretty damning indictment of the general thought process of the 2020 (circa) gamer/ player. I enjoy the survival element of the game, I enjoy the crafting, the infected and the gorgeous map. I enjoy the world, the simplicity of the game in its core concept... but I am beginning to HATE other players. Since I started, NUMEROUS times I have been wandering around, either in a forest or small town, minding my own business looking for apples, mushrooms, clothing to turn to rags to make rope to craft a fishing rod, bonking infected over the head with crowbars etc. I'm sure you get th- YOU ARE DEAD. Just like that, five minutes ago I was stalking the sound of a chicken as my character was getting hungry, then two players who'd clearly been following me or just got lucky jump me. Now, I admit, they didn't shoot me, but clearly one of them thought he had the biggest schlong in the game and came on over the mic, repeating over and over the 'rules' of how he wanted me to act. Putting my hands up, not moving etc. When I said I didn't know how, the other player actually told me the key. So, fair enough. I put my hands up... I then mention that I can hear a zombie close by and Mr Big Schlong says they will handle the zombie and shoot at it. Next thing I know, I hear multiple zombies coming towards us, from behind me. More bullets are fired and- YOU ARE DEAD. Now I have to ask this... why? Why go through all that (this whole thing lasted about two minutes), only to STOP SHOOTING, TURN AND AIM AT ME, and then kill me? I've been in a newbie zone before (the coast) and got roasted by another guy who had tried to copy his loadout from a war film. Fully automatic weaponry, helmet, military gear etc and was just going around shooting players. Why? As a new player, it took me SO LONG to find my bearings and my location on a map, get some gear, get a weapon and ammunition, locate food and/ or a supply of food, the same for water etc... only for this thing to always seem to happen. It's not all bad, I have met ONE person who was nice, but he ran off. Every single other player I have had ANY interaction with has been a complete and utter tool. So, now I feel if I am to survive, I have to kill everything that moves. Infected, players, chickens as well because everything else that moves in this game kills me before I even spot what's going on. My point is, I explained to Mr Big Schlong i'm new to the game... so... why kill me? Someone with a loadout like that clearly doesn't need food, weapons or ammo, so... just to be a dick? I for one, don't like playing with dicks aside from my own. Clearly, I'M the one missing something, I'M to blame here but I can't figure out what i'm doing wrong. I realise people store items by burying them (so when they respawn they have a basic loadout already setup) but I never get to the point where I have enough items to bother burying before someone ganks me. What's the general vibe in this community? Kill everyone? Or, 50/ 50 on whether you meet someone who wants to help out and team up? Or something else? I feel as though i'm working hard to survive, only to be snuffed out 'just like that' and frankly, it's making me not want to bother. Why spend hours sourcing food and items and fighting infected and looking at maps if someone's just going to take my head off EVERY SINGLE TIME.