Living off the Land

[kradarak 23]

Years ago, I enjoyed playing DayZ as a survival game and one of the fun aspects of playing it as a survival game was living purely off the land.  The improvised bow was essential to this process as killing animals for pelts is extremely difficult with only a stone knife.  Saving bones for bone arrows to take down bigger game like cows was just part of the grueling fun of the game.  Ammo was always difficult to obtain and maintain and I simply loved it.  One year, an update broke fishing, leather tanning and the bow and I quit playing for a couple years to play Minecraft and Generation Zero.  I'm back now and I can't tell you how much I really enjoy the game, but I sadly miss having a bow to use for zombies and food alike.  I know it would be an extreme disadvantage to play using only a bow and stone knife, but that's how I like to play, but I'd like to expand my suggestion by saying that I'd like to see snares and traps that do not rely on metal wire or tools other than a stone knife to craft.

I feel like many players play this game as a deathmatch or PVP arena with survival aspects, but I play it as a survival game with PVP.  Reinventing ways to stick a bullet in someone's skull is kinda boring in my opinion.  More guns just doesn't interest me.  More natural survival aspects do.

In summary:  Please bring back the improvised bow, and focus on adding survival aspects involving living off the land.

[Shift 25]

Agreed, it would be so cool tobe able to survive completely off land. There should be a way to tan leather without lime, like maybe combine some fruit or veggie with guts to create some kind of natural compound for tanning. And you should be able to make all kinds of leather clothes, including hat, shoes, gloves. And you should be able to craft the clothes out of tanned leather with some craftable tool, so that you dont depend on leather sawing kit. Like, combine rope and bone and you create some kind of bone and rope sawing kit.

So that you could run in the woods right after spawn and get everything needed to survive from the land. You should be able to craft some kind of trap that can catch a boar or a deer so that you can make rope from it's guts to make a bow. Maybe like combine knife and small stick and you can create a trap kit, place it on the ground and add more small sticks and sharpened sticks to build it. You can put a fruit in it as bait and it will catch a boar or a deer. If you put a worm in it you will waste it on catching a chicken.