Sustenance in the woods?

[Odysseus (DayZ) 43]

I've learned to avoid townships and cities like the plague... but eventually, I've got to start scrounging for food. The risk hasn't been worth it. On the server I've been playing at, today, every house seems to have been ransacked just moments before I arrive. There's been nothing, hardly even any rotten food. Nothing, that is, except gunmen.

 

Now, I'm running the risk of starvation... and it's a shame, too, as I've got some decent gear collected and I really, really do not want to spawn on that damned beach, again. So it got me to thinking...

 

It'd be awfully nice if players could hide in the woods and basically survive on a creek bed. I'm a country boy and a former Boy Scout, I could live out there for months setting traps and living off of the land. Maybe instead of being a lonely and desolate place, the forest could have fruit trees, mushrooms, and other vegetables - and teeming with wildlife, such as rabbits, deer, and turkey. Why not the ability to loot/skin these items and go completely native?

 

How about the rural houses having hunting rifles and bows and arrows?

 

Just thinking aloud.

[King of kong 1117]

I've learned to avoid townships and cities like the plague... but eventually, I've got to start scrounging for food. The risk hasn't been worth it. On the server I've been playing at, today, every house seems to have been ransacked just moments before I arrive. There's been nothing, hardly even any rotten food. Nothing, that is, except gunmen.

 

Now, I'm running the risk of starvation... and it's a shame, too, as I've got some decent gear collected and I really, really do not want to spawn on that damned beach, again. So it got me to thinking...

 

It'd be awfully nice if players could hide in the woods and basically survive on a creek bed. I'm a country boy and a former Boy Scout, I could live out there for months setting traps and living off of the land. Maybe instead of being a lonely and desolate place, the forest could have fruit trees, mushrooms, and other vegetables - and teeming with wildlife, such as rabbits, deer, and turkey. Why not the ability to loot/skin these items and go completely native?

 

How about the rural houses having hunting rifles and bows and arrows?

 

Just thinking aloud.

depends on Chernarus' gun laws. But nice idea. 

[[email protected] 54]

Just wait till the animal, cooking, and growing food get implemented man. I'am right there with you, I'am just waiting patiently..

 

Edit - Please go to Rockets twitter and the Dev's Twitter to get updated with the upcoming content. They tell you about future plans

Edited December 24, 2013 by MilSpecZombie

[RyanW1019 3]

I've heard of huntable animals and cooking being implemented. But I haven't heard anything about agriculture. Do you have a source for that?

[[email protected] 54]

I've heard of huntable animals and cooking being implemented. But I haven't heard anything about agriculture. Do you have a source for that?

 

Yes one of his live twitch streams he said it. Ill give you the link, let me dig through my history

[[email protected] 54]

Here ya'll go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=346RQZZ75Jw

 

 

He talks about growing food, and other things. I'd watch all of his live stream if I were you. To anyone wanting to figure out future plans

Edited December 24, 2013 by MilSpecZombie

[Odysseus (DayZ) 43]

Here ya'll go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=346RQZZ75Jw

 

 

He talks about growing food, and other things. I'd watch all of his live stream if I were you. To anyone wanting to figure out future plans

Thanks for this. Bean'd you.

[jimmy_rustlers 24]

Hunting rabbits in a zombie apocalypse might be not as easy as we thought.

 

[King of kong 1117]