thewire 88 Posted February 28, 2015 I just started playing the game for the first time. I found a rifle, a pickaxe, machete, canteen, backpack...but oh my I can't find food! Die of starvation! what a way to go Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheCreeper (DayZ) 3565 Posted February 28, 2015 Where are you looking, I find food everywhere. with in 20 minutes of starting I have full energy and hydration. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thewire 88 Posted February 28, 2015 Where are you looking, I find food everywhere. with in 20 minutes of starting I have full energy and hydration.to be honest...i have no idea. It was industrial looking area with silos and such. Also, I have no idea what server was that either...I know is a public server Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheCreeper (DayZ) 3565 Posted February 28, 2015 Sounds like the east coast, if you had gone north you would have hit a major city. here's a map to help you get around, after I get home from work, i'll post again, see if we can meet on a server and I'll show you the ropes of the game Map: http://dayzdb.com/map/chernarusplus Names are in russian and english so it should help you get around 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thewire 88 Posted February 28, 2015 Sounds like the east coast, if you had gone north you would have hit a major city. here's a map to help you get around, after I get home from work, i'll post again, see if we can meet on a server and I'll show you the ropes of the game Map: http://dayzdb.com/map/chernarusplus Names are in russian and english so it should help you get aroundcheers mate...how do find people in the game LOL...steam? teamspeak? etc? I think that's the one...then again who I am kidding..LOL Also, when you get hit or hungry or lose some blood does your screen get slightly blurry? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eno 1049 Posted February 28, 2015 Sounds like you have post processing turned on in your configuration. Go into your video and turn that off- it'll resolve. This in particular if you get hit. If you are losing blood and losing health your screen will start to go grey... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thewire 88 Posted February 28, 2015 oh man..i m starving again....it's getting serious again I don't want to die yet lol...found alot cans but no can opener knife...anyone can help me out with a can opener? Also how to get rid of cold? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mookie (original) 799 Posted February 28, 2015 Go to any stony area (eg the beach), point at ground and hit F to "search for stones". When you find one, look at the stony ground again and hit F again to "craft stone knife". It will take up one inventory slot and opens cans very well. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChainReactor 922 Posted February 28, 2015 oh man..i m starving again....it's getting serious again I don't want to die yet lol...found alot cans but no can opener knife...anyone can help me out with a can opener? Also how to get rid of cold? I think pickaxe and machete will open cans too 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HarryPotter (DayZ) 172 Posted February 28, 2015 anything sharp will open cans Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kirby12352 67 Posted February 28, 2015 Houses in residential areas usually always have a bit of food. Also, just keep eating and drinking until you get Energized and Hydrated. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thewire 88 Posted February 28, 2015 hah..managed to get some food..canned of tuna but die from hypothermia :) thanks all Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheCreeper (DayZ) 3565 Posted February 28, 2015 Hey Wire, just got home, sorry, tired as hell ( BS 12 hour shifts ), will have to meet up some other time, and as for coms, we can use the Musty Teamspeak, bunch of good guys over there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thewire 88 Posted February 28, 2015 Hey Wire, just got home, sorry, tired as hell ( BS 12 hour shifts ), will have to meet up some other time, and as for coms, we can use the Musty Teamspeak, bunch of good guys over there.no worries, it's just a character :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
therandomredstone 432 Posted March 1, 2015 I just started playing the game for the first time. I found a rifle, a pickaxe, machete, canteen, backpack...but oh my I can't find food! Die of starvation! what a way to goIt depends on the server and the location. You should join a server with a good 2-6 players, and look in the outskirts of big towns such as chernogorsk. Food will be plentiful. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sachad 1016 Posted March 1, 2015 anything sharp will open cans Doesn't even have to be sharp. You can use sledgehammers, too :P 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilgrim* 3514 Posted March 1, 2015 (edited) Doesn't even have to be sharp. You can use sledgehammers, too :P The stone knife makes life easy Mookie is right- myself I think it's too easy (have you ever tried making a stone knife in real Life.?.. wow!).. but who's complaining? And don't forget the hacksaw - people seem to leave them lying around, they dont hardly ever pick them up, so you have a good chance to find one - the hacksaw only spills 2% of the can and never seems to get blunt - and keep it for when you find a shotgun. When you find a shotgun saw it off, then it will fit in your backpack or some pants (takes a space 4 squares long). A sawnoff is a GREAT weapon. I'f you're starving you can always pick apples. Players don't like doing this this much, I think, but it works.Eating maybe 20+ apples will stop you from starving - you gain energy from eating them just slightly faster than you waste energy picking them. So it takes a while, but you can do it if you can recognize apple trees. They grow in groups - sometimes outside the edges of villages or sometimes near outlying houses or farmhouses. Going north up the coast road by the junction to Berezino there is a big orchard. You can get fully fed there easily - if you want to spend a couple of hours doing it and no one shoots you. When your "searching for apples" and you start getting "you find nothing" five or six times in a row, go away from the area of the apple trees and then come right back, it seems like the apple tree resets itself - I don't know if this is true but it works for me.The only ONE problem about apples is - in the time it takes to stay around there and stuff yourself you REALLY WILL get shot or axed.. that's about 99% certain.Don't eat "bad apples" (natch, they poison) To pick apples, go up close to the tree, aim at the tree and press "F" or spin your mousewheel to get the option "search for apples" An old raincoat will stop you getting hypothermia, even if its damaged, You cool down in rain and can't do anything about it except build a fire, put on dry clothes (but they get wet again fast) or - yep, raincoat. It keeps you dry. I think its the best thing to wear when you come off the beach newspawn. There are plenty around. You can "wring out" your clothes so they go from "soaked" to "damp".. but I don't find this helps much. If you take off any clothes next to a fire and put them right back on, they are dry again. (but a raincoat is easier for a beginner, right?) If you are "cold" etc, and it is not raining, run to warm up (if yo have the energy) - also you get colder faster in forests in the tree shadow,. Go out and move in direct sunlight and you will warm up. If there's no sun (its raining) the answer is still - raincoat. S0: Get yourself a raincoat and a hacksaw and eat apples - and you can live forever. (unless something bad happens to you) hehe xx pilgrim Edited March 4, 2015 by pilgrim 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thewire 88 Posted March 1, 2015 thanks guys for the tips. Since meeting up with schwaBAM in game, showing me a couple things and hooked me up with a canteen such, I am pretty set to survive minus getting shot at LOL....so far been playing in less crowded server, trying to figure out all the function like loading clip onto a gun LOL..took a few minutes Oh..I found 3 can openers in one spot!!! LOL who need some? I have mosin with ammo, 1911 with ammo, axe, and hunting knife as weapon, and raincoat (found a black one later so I don't have to stand out like a sore thump with yellow jacket!), enough food and water. I keep eating or drinking whenever I found anything. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilgrim* 3514 Posted March 2, 2015 (edited) Find the locations of rivers and lakes - drinking there is much safer than drinking from pumps.Fill your water bottle then "drink all" your bottle, then fill it again, and "drink all" again.... this is a lot faster than "drink water" with your hands (and filling your bottle afterwards). Edited March 2, 2015 by pilgrim Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cash81 506 Posted March 4, 2015 Sounds like you have post processing turned on in your configuration. Go into your video and turn that off- it'll resolve. This in particular if you get hit. If you are losing blood and losing health your screen will start to go grey...So does that mean you can turn off the effects of dieing? (The saturated colours and blurriness) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eno 1049 Posted March 4, 2015 (edited) So does that mean you can turn off the effects of dieing? (The saturated colours and blurriness)There was a bug where your screen would stay blurry immediately after being hit by a zombie. No matter how serious it went Insta blurry. You could go to configure video all the time to remedy this temporarily. That resulted in advice to turn off post processing and that worked to eliminate that problem specifically. Edited March 4, 2015 by ENO75 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
