Food and survival rate

[James Adam Rimmer 13]

On 11/27/2020 at 6:23 AM, Exxoduss said:

MY Advice: New spawn (bambi) 1. look for a knife

Have to admit, getting that first knife is getting to be a pain too....clad you can use practically any tool now to carve up a carcass, but it feels a little weird useing a screwdriver to gut with. XD

[Exxoduss 61]

Well, Thre is always a sledge hammer.  Usd to break rocks. then make an imrovised knife. Unfortunatly only lasts a few cuts.

[EzyStriderPS4 191]

1 minute real time = approximately 8 minutes in DayZ. 

Imagine how much you would want to eat if you spent all day jogging with all that gear and doing manual tasks! If you are really patient, when you go prone in the game, it reduces energy consumption. Try it and see how long you can last then! But I digress...

Stomach Capacity and Energy Capacity are separate from each other, which is a fact. This is why when your stomach is full, as indicated by the stomach with circling arrows icon, you can wait a short time, then consume more food and still observe Up arrows on the Apple icon. The Apple icon is your Energy Capacity, not how full you are.

To relate the two, here’s how I see it:

Apple Icon Full, No Up arrow when you consume food = You are STUFFED! (Cannot take in more Energy.)

Apple Icon Full, Up arrow(s) when you consume food = You are somewhere between HUNGRY and NOT HUNGRY.

Apple Icon Not Full, still White = You are EXTREMELY HUNGRY and it is becoming an EMERGENCY.

Apple Icon Half Full, Yellow = You are in the Beginning Stages of STARVATION.

Apple Icon is Red = You are now DYING from STARVATION.

[EzyStriderPS4 191]

On 11/23/2020 at 2:07 PM, Survivor-Ajax said:

My pants are the only thing I have now with low insulation.  Could this be causing my problem?  Because something isn't right.  

 

 

Night time, increasing Altitude, and Wind all make the character cold now in 1.10. It can be a combination of those things, and the state of your gear (wetness, damage, material type).

[Riddick_2K 174]

On 11/23/2020 at 8:07 PM, Tonyeh said:

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I think this patch has been harder on the crowd that run around at night in the pissing rain and newspawns the emerge on a desolate coastal area that go around in a panicked state and are now not only looking at their food meter going from yellow to red in the space of 20 minutes, but the temp icon constantly turning blue cos they're only dressed in a pair of torn knickers.

I don't think most players are that stupid. I remember that with this 1.10 even the firefighter clothing (waterproof and with excellent insulation according to the description of the game) already gets wet with little rain and you start to consume a truckload of food, always complaining about the cold. And in any case, even with simple cotton clothing (that it is military, not a simple shirt, of course) we are in Chernarus, between sea level and the hills that have only 450/500 meters the highest peak... we're not in Siberia or Alaska.
These are the "usual" (unfortunately) bullshit of the developers who, instead of trying to make a serious and plausible game, enjoy making it a "Rubik's meatloaf"

[Riddick_2K 174]

On 11/25/2020 at 9:15 AM, Steinmarder said:

About the spawning however, especially mushrooms and the like.. Ye, you need to give that stuff some time to spawn too. If I spend some time in an area, the forests around start to spawn a lot of shrooms. But your character also blocks spawns if it is too close. Apparently its technically impossible to have loot just spawn on its own - it needs a player in range to initiate it. It's always been like that. The buildings/objects are not active/accesible by script otherwise or something like that... And if the player just runs into a town - he will block the zones before he actually triggers a new spawn.

Well ... honestly ... I have read it many times but I am not convinced that this is the case.
When I arrive somewhere I already find everything, including food (apples, mushrooms, etc.) if it isn't there, even if I stay in the area, nothing changes. After reading on the forums that the spawn comes late, I have tried several times to move away and come back, but never noticed any changes. Certainly tried many times in my private server (that I have more time for the "tests" :-D), but even those times that I tried in a public, I got nothing more and I only risked my life.
What I can confirm, in my private server where I can drive with cars without major problems, is that if I take a long trip with the car, many times as soon as I arrive, the Zs are not yet present ... or are few ... I have to wait 20/40 seconds and the zone begins to fill with Z that, from the spawn point, begin to wander around the zone.
But for objects and food, I never found any differences.

 

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If you are desperate for loot and you cant make it to another town due to hunger/thirst, you can wait 200-300m outside town for a while. It will pop some new spawns on empty loot spots after about 5min. It's kinda cheesy.. but it's how it works. I just try and do it "naturally". Take a turn through the forest first, observe the town a little before I go in.. etc. And dont "switch" a clothing item right from the ground when you find it. That way you block the loot spawn with your athletic shoes or your tshirt for the rest of time. 😉 

I'm not very convinced of this either. The difference is not that big ... the spawn of the objects in the empty points is decided with a precise time interval with the timing written in seconds inside the file "types.xml" ... the "distance" with the player is only for avoid that the player "sees directly" the spawn, so it should be short, but above all there is a precise time for each object when it has to appear again. There is no need to leave a city, nor wait even 5 minutes ... if the object in question is queuing for the spawn in that precise place, just go around the house and the object will be there on the way back. If that item isn't queued for spawn, getting out of town and waiting up to 5 minutes is useless.
Obviously the longer you wait, the more objects will surely be reborn ... but for a matter of "queue" decided by the game via the "types.xml" file, not for your wait.
I don't know if I managed to make myself understood with Google translation.

[Exxoduss 61]

I think they are currently working on the fruit drop rate. It has changed recently in my observations so expect this to be different and not set into stone if any one particular player thinks they unlocked the process... just a heads up.

I did like the half hour spawn rate ont he rosebuds, hawthorn berries and elder berries though- I thought that amount of time was DOPE.  Dont ask me why, but it adds to the base building and resources available to you.also this is another reason if bases are to be a players "HOME" they need a bigger map and somekind of protection that will instantly mortaly wound a player that wishes to harm it while the defender is offline, if they cheat or not.

• Grenade trip wire
• Sharpstick springtrap
• Invisible barbwire
• Pit trap
• Holding infected captive
• Holding a bear captive
• Gaurd dogs
• Sirens using a megaphone and generator to attract infected if near
• Bottles/cans/something and rope to make perimeter alarms to attract infected if near.
• Landmines
• Beartraps
• electrical fencing or barbedwire w generator

and maybe the dead players loot being lootable apun return or login if under a flagpole?

Edited December 8, 2020 by Exxoduss

[DayzDayzFanboy 1280]

@Riddick_2KI don't know what all the fuss is about. Food is scarce, as it should be. But I haven't died of starvation for as long as I can remember, there are so many sources of food...infected, greenhouses, rowing boats, wildlife, fruit trees, fishing, or grow your own. I only play on official servers but if you really are struggling, just join one of the myriad private servers with ten million times boosted loot

[uthikoloshe 3]

10 hours into this game. I have found 4 tins of food. 3 tins of drink. 2 pears. I fresh apple and 4 dried apples. I havent managed to eat those tins of food because I have a found a knife just once and a screw driver just once, just not at the same time as the tins. I ha e walked train tracks for miles and never found two stones to make a knife. There is fuck all food and no way to progress without it. 

So I have been thinking about taking up some more simple challenges. Such as winning the Tour de France on a space hopper. 

 

[DayzDayzFanboy 1280]

2 hours ago, uthikoloshe said:

10 hours into this game. I have found 4 tins of food. 3 tins of drink. 2 pears. I fresh apple and 4 dried apples. I havent managed to eat those tins of food because I have a found a knife just once and a screw driver just once, just not at the same time as the tins. I ha e walked train tracks for miles and never found two stones to make a knife. There is fuck all food and no way to progress without it. 

So I have been thinking about taking up some more simple challenges. Such as winning the Tour de France on a space hopper. 

 

You'll soon learn where to look. It's meant to be difficult. Personally I don't think it's hard enough

[Exxoduss 61]

I just died of starvation...  It was an interesting story....  I was walking along navoya patrovka and kept going past it, had some badly damaged pants so I was freezing the whole time, was just approaching devils castle and was attacked by wolves, so I logged out (in my defence I was far from anything to take cover in and only had 4 bullets in my 1911) anyway, I logged back in bandaged my bites and was starting to hit yellow once I reached devils castle. finding no food I continued on when I herd a rather pissed off growl... this growl was attached to a bear and it rushed me- I discharged my 4 bullets at the bear but it was already ontop of me and *SMACK* knocked my ass out, it actualy let me live and I low crawled a few feet away and bandaged as soon as I could. low crawled away from the incedent, and started jogging northwest untill i came up to zaprudnoe. I was in the red at this time... a number of infected attacked me, the last one was infront of a greenhouse I was praying was a can of soda. but just as I got to the door another infected attacked killed him and WAALAA a can of peaches. (learning my lesson from opening a food can while it is still in the infecteds inventory i threw it out on the ground and opened it with my axe, half way through eating it, another infected attacked me, so I stopped eating crouch walked just inside the greenhouse and closed the door just as it smacked me... well I thought i closed the door.. I got a red text in the center of my screen with a counter on it then pow main menu. I dropped to desktop realquick to do a internet speed check and when that was done I switched back to the game to find the game automaticaly logged me back into the server and I was standing back outside the greenhouse with an axe in my hand- no can of peaches no infected around and I died.

Edited December 10, 2020 by Exxoduss

[uthikoloshe 3]

13 hours ago, DayzDayzFanboy said:

You'll soon learn where to look. It's meant to be difficult. Personally I don't think it's hard enough

Oh for sure, for sure. I have seen a few computers in houses in the game. Once I find one with amazon I'll get busy ordering  that space hopper and a map to France. If I get 10000 hours in this game, I am coming g back the to beaches to feed noobs. Probably shoot them after, but they wont die hungry like me.

In other news I have found after 2 hours of fruitless searching a quick blast at Quake champions, where its 10 kills a minute, somewhat resets my balance haha. 

 

Edited December 10, 2020 by uthikoloshe

[DayzDayzFanboy 1280]

2 hours ago, uthikoloshe said:

Oh for sure, for sure. I have seen a few computers in houses in the game. Once I find one with amazon I'll get busy ordering  that space hopper and a map to France. If I get 10000 hours in this game, I am coming g back the to beaches to feed noobs. Probably shoot them after, but they wont die hungry like me.

In other news I have found after 2 hours of fruitless searching a quick blast at Quake champions, where its 10 kills a minute, somewhat resets my balance haha. 

 

Have you actually tried playing on community servers with boosted loot? If you're really finding the game that difficult maybe try that. 

[uthikoloshe 3]

Woke up this morning to play DayZ. I found 4 apples and a pear. Sadly these are in my own kitchen 😞and probably put there by the devs to taunt me 😡. I realise for old pros who build bases using AK47s as bricks that moaning about it is no solution , and that the bootcamp phase of this game is a few hundred hours at least. I'm in good spirits. I'm coming for you like covid. 

I just wouldn't wait around for my arrival, it could be a while 🤣

[uthikoloshe 3]

Day 2 of DayZ playing is over. There is clearly too much food about the place, devs making it way to easy for people😔 . The real problem comes trying to cook it. I was badly smashed up after getting trapped by a opening door and 3 infected. somehow survived that and spent the next two hours learning about the blood mechanic and recovery. I was almost back to full health when I stood on my campfire 😞

Now my currently issue is guns. This is a lot to learn. I want Neo spawning in guns, lots of guns, so I can practice with them. This means I have to make a private server to train on right?

[DayzDayzFanboy 1280]

27 minutes ago, uthikoloshe said:

Day 2 of DayZ playing is over. There is clearly too much food about the place, devs making it way to easy for people😔 . The real problem comes trying to cook it. I was badly smashed up after getting trapped by a opening door and 3 infected. somehow survived that and spent the next two hours learning about the blood mechanic and recovery. I was almost back to full health when I stood on my campfire 😞

Now my currently issue is guns. This is a lot to learn. I want Neo spawning in guns, lots of guns, so I can practice with them. This means I have to make a private server to train on right?

Just join a community server, there are loads of boosted loot and pvp servers