Really struggling

[LowKee84.1 6]

So I started playing this game a few days back, starved to death. Got a little further, starved to death.

I've been on Google for ages now looking at videos, guides on how to find food & I feel I must have downloaded a buggy copy of the game coz it's just not happening for me.

Majority of guides say you'll find fruit at the base of trees, every town/village has an apple tree. I've yet to find a single piece of fruit.

I watched a video on identifying trees, I've gone to fruit trees, gone away for 10 to 20 minutes, come back & still nothing.

 

I've run through forests,  found a mushroom!...then starved to death.

I got real lucky, found a knife & a chicken,made some chicken steaks, couldn't cook it though. Waited until I was near death til I ate it, got sick & died anyway.

If I'm lucky I can find random food in house or in container spawns but never enough to sustain me.

Is there a trick to getting this alleged fruit spawn around trees?

[Skyclad777 1]

Let me try and help. Not because I am an expert, I've only be playing it for almost 10 days with limited time. But after getting PhD in "Starving to death", and Nobel prize for my contribution to Cholera studies, these are the little tricks that help me a lot:

1. If you spawn near the coast, walk a big distance on the coastline and look in, under and near the boats. You will find hooks, soft drinks, dry bag and others.

2. Try to kill zombies when they are alone even without melee weapons , then check them they often have soft drinks and canned food.

3. Walk in the middle of the railroad. You will see some stones that stand out in the middle. Take the first, when you find the second combine them and craft a Stone knife

4. Make fire without matches. Using the stone or other knife cut bark from the tree. Combine short stick and rag for fireplace, bark and another shortstick for hand drill. The two crafted items can start a fire. Use longsticks to cook the chicken , fish , etc on them

5. Hydration: Soft drinks, Kvass are safe. Bottle or canteen of water, stream = 50% Cholera Chance. Empty them and fill from pump for safe water or add chorline tablets. Drink direct from Pump only with clean hands (not bloodied, then you have to wash them first). Fruit and veggies help with hydration as well.

6. Orient yourself and use Izurvive or other map

Hope you learned something you didn't know and it can help. After I learned these I finally have a character that can survive day to day.

Edited May 20, 2020 by Skyclad777
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[LowKee84.1 6]

6 minutes ago, Skyclad777 said:

Make fire without matches. Using the stone or other knife cut bark from the tree. Combine short stick and rag for fireplace, bark and another shortstick for hand drill. The two crafted items can start a fire. Use longsticks to cook the chicken , fish , etc on them

Okay that one is very handy. As I said I was walking around with 4 chicken steaks but didnt know how to cook them.

[DayzDayzFanboy 1280]

I'm sure you already knew to look, but green houses often spawn food and drink. 

I wouldn't waste time looking for fruit. I've never found fruit when I've searched for it. I only ever find it by accident when I have half a cooked cow in my bag. 

The knife is the key to survival. Once you have that you can hunt, fish, make fire. 

Good luck

[Ra.bo 1]

Blood virus is a little bit BS. So wash them fingers you less than five minutes before you get sick

[Zalic 41]

Be strong. The more you play the easier it will be. Keep watching vids to find out tips an tricks. Once you've mastered food, zombies and weather your biggest obstacle will be unfriendly players. With that rule#1 is trust no one.

[Homeschooliazon 87]

It's incredibly easy to stay fed. Just catch a fish, cook and eat it. It will keep you fed for aaaages. Spawn, find a knife, cut up clothes until you have 2 stacks of 6 rags, combine them into a rope, cut down a large bush for a long stick, combine the long stick and your rope into a fishing rod, skin a dead player/chicken for bones, combine your knife and a bone for a fishing hook, dig up a worm from the ground (dirt), combine your hook and worm, put the worm-hook onto your fishing rod, fish in any body of water, cut up your fish into filets, put it on a long stick, hold it over a fire, eat de fish.

Another aboslutely important thing is to keep your temperature high enough so that your thermometer stays white and doesnt go blue. When you are cold (blue thermometer icon) you starve to death insanely fast. I always throw 2-3 worms into a fire, then keep them in my jacket/pants/vest (backpack doesn't warm you). This way you will never be cold haha.