Food

[YethHound 5]

Hey all, i have been playing Day Z for over a week now, i have found it extremely hard to find beans anywhere

iam in a bad way ATM with less than 2000 blood i have spent well over 3hours in a large town with multi loot spawn points ie barns houses.

i can hardly see as my vision is 0. i have taken all the loot available cleaned house and moved the empty cans/whisky bottles wood hatchets far away from the spawn point and waited away for the new gear to spawn. all that respawns is more empty cans and stuff i do not need.

3 hatchets in one barns? seriously? x4 empty cans? what? useless garbage! i need food.

so my question is are some spawn points bugged? isnt food a popular spawn item as it only gives 200 blood.

on a sidenote Zed AI is fine i dont have a problem navigating around them. in fact i prefer the tougher AI routines just fix the connection issues

Peace

[Zombie_chew_toy 2]

Seriously, quit using cans for food.

Find a hatchet, knife, and matches.

Then find a goat 3-meat, a boar 4-meat, a sheep 5-meat, a cow 8-meat.

Hatchet any one of them, gut it, collect the meat.

Walk into the woods and when your hatchet is in your tool-belt collect a pile of wood with it.

Then click on your matches and make a fireplace.

When done use you mouse wheel and light a fire in the fireplace.

Use the mouse wheel again and select cook meat.

Boom!

Every piece of cooked meat gives you 800 blood back. So basically one cooked meat equals 4 cans of food.

Edited July 11, 2012 by Zombie_chew_toy

[Michaelvoodoo25 3120]

Yeah what he said, I was in a similar situation recently and the tools are a priority.

[YethHound 5]

Yep couldn't agree more. I have these tools but I am finding it even harder to locate livestock. I will put more time into hunting. Could someone give me some pointers like where to find these animals. I have found a single cow once some chickens. Open fields? Or more likely in the woods?

[Monstrous Treachery 7]

Both. There's tonnes of them up north, especially around the north-west airfield area. You can try your luck north of Chernogorsk as well, there's a few cow spawns there.

I don't think anyone can pin-point the exact locations of animal spawns, but they're pretty much around everywhere. I tend to find cows, goats, bulls etcetera more commonly in fields rather than in the woods. Pigs, however, I find in the woods. A bit weird, but that's how it is for me at least.

Happy... animal hunting.

[YethHound 5]

Awesome got me some hunting to do. After slaughtering the bull I had a blood count if 11000, but as I am newbie I accidentally dropped my Fal next to a lake where I was filling my water bottle NO! Idiot.

I had no gun and my hatchet wasn't in my hands at the time and I got hammered by a horde.

If it wasn't for a experienced generous/patient Russian survivor who picked me up in his army truck full of gear who knows where I might be now

That's the beauty of Day Z

Thanks for the advice

Peace

[TJMaxed 8]

I think you should be able to raid gardens in towns/cities and get food from there. or once in a while you'd find a tree carrying fruit that you can take