More uses for items.

[Drunken Bob 9]

I noticed when you eat or drink from a can, the container disappears. I would love to see uses for cans. You could store cooked food in a 2x2 old peach can, and prevent it from spoiling a little longer. You could fill up an old pipsi can with water for a quick bit until you get a canteen or bottle (it wouldn't hold much, maybe 1/2 - 1/3 of what a bottle does, but it would come in handy).
You could use them for noise traps, maybe improvised explosives and pipe bombs

Reusable glass bottles would be good for water or molotovs (fill with gas, add rag, ignite and throw)

Furniture in the houses that you can chop up that respawns would be handy for fire starting if needed, or using the leg of a table as a club

Carving firewood or planks into a club and adding nails or barbed wire for some bludgeoning plus bleeding hatred.

Using planks a hammer and nails to board up a door or window that can be knocked down, but would take bit longer than punching a locked door would be, but could be pried off with a knife or crowbar from the inside

Using a crowbar to pry open locked doors.

[DayzDayzFanboy 1280]

Disinfectant bottles should definitely be refillable. I don't think cans should be able to store things though as they can't be sealed, but could certainly be used to cook food in or collect water from streams which you could then add a chlorine tablet to, for immediate drinking. 

[DefectiveWater 491]

28 minutes ago, DayzDayzFanboy said:

I don't think cans should be able to store things though as they can't be sealed, but could certainly be used to cook food in or collect water from streams which you could then add a chlorine tablet to, for immediate drinking. 

Yeah I agree...
Used cans shouldn't be able to seal up, so liquid should spill overtime in backpacks or immediately make backpacks/containers wet.

There's lot's of good ideas here, and most of them would fit DayZ, but they would most probably end up changing the game too much... not saying that it's bad. Just it's gonna change the game, probably for the better.
There needs to be more interactions with the enviroment, and more DIY stuff in DayZ.

Game should be about using everything you can to your advantage.

TLDR: OP has few good ideas, maybe should be implemented or taken as ideas for game direction (more DIY stuff).

Edited September 27, 2021 by DefectiveWater

[Parazight 1594]

On 9/25/2021 at 6:38 PM, Drunken Bob said:

Using a crowbar to pry open locked doors.

Do we really need to add this?  This mostly seems like fluff.  We can already open locked doors with melee weapons. 

On 9/25/2021 at 6:38 PM, Drunken Bob said:

Using planks a hammer and nails to board up a door or ...

We can combine two items only.  Other than that, it seems like an incredible amount of work to make all of the structures interactive.

I gotta be honest, I'm not a developer but these suggestions seem like a ton of work for very little reward.

[DefectiveWater 491]

3 hours ago, Parazight said:

Do we really need to add this?

We really don't, but some more DIY or uses for items would always be neat.

Love the change to sunglasses in 1.14.

Edited September 27, 2021 by DefectiveWater

[Drunken Bob 9]

On 9/27/2021 at 10:26 AM, Parazight said:

Do we really need to add this?  This mostly seems like fluff.  We can already open locked doors with melee weapons. 

We can combine two items only.  Other than that, it seems like an incredible amount of work to make all of the structures interactive.

First, I feel it would be much more immersive 
Second , hitting something with a melee weapon is loud, but prying it open is a lot quieter and could help with gameplay (I myself am a sneaky sneak kind of guy

And yes, you can combine 2 items, but you can also combine several items in a row. Look at a fence
You need to build the fence kit with rope and sticks, then add logs, then dig the base, then attach boards, nails and so on and then use a hammer.

It would be simple, you take a plank, and attach it to the window, along with nails. Then you hammer it together and it is secure.
This would be great for loaners who aren't building bases, but would give them a chance to fortify a place to sleep or cook or what ever, but not have the option to return all willy nilly, when they tear the boards down they are gone.

[Drunken Bob 9]

On 9/27/2021 at 7:32 AM, DayzDayzFanboy said:

Disinfectant bottles should definitely be refillable. I don't think cans should be able to store things though as they can't be sealed, but could certainly be used to cook food in or collect water from streams which you could then add a chlorine tablet to, for immediate drinking. 

I like this idea as well,, the reason I was thinking cans could hold liquid or food was more for game play. If you open a soda and drink half, it stays that full until you finish it, and if you open canned peaches and then put them back they dont go spilling everywhere.
But think about making noise traps somewhere annoying with cans and rope, so when someone is sneakily opening a door it clanks and alerts people or infected? (or just inside a military tent... )
Also we have the jars that honey or jam comes in which could be used to carry water. 

I generally would like to see more immersion added, as opposed to more random guns that just duplicate the ones we already have.

 

[lemmac 99]

Useable cans would be good, also they could be discarded just like paper is already, giving a hint that someone else has recently been there. More different guns are kinda pointless as they don't add to gameplay in any way.