Gaining Humanity without doing good deeds

[GBTP 114]

I have yet to kill any players nor have I helped any, but my humanity level is at 4750 and seems to go up without me even noticing it. Is it a glitch or did I miss other ways that you can gain humanity beyond 2500? I kill my fair share of zombies...

[Rebel1705 31]

Ye I noticed it too, I think you gain humanity by killing zombies

[GBTP 114]

Ye I noticed it too, I think you gain humanity by killing zombies

Anyone Able to confirm?

[steve t 32]

I got 15K ATM....I have given 1 transfusion and 1 bandage....nothing more. I have however killed 500 zombies....so maybe there is a zombie killing - humanity link.

[Stworca 87]

You gain humanity over time, up until 2500.

And when you change your skin, you "start at 0", but it does stack with the previous 2500 (and other 2500's from before).

Thus, by just playing the game and changing skins often, you will be a hero.

Killing zombies gives you nothing.

[FinalNinja447 129]

Anyone Able to confirm?

You automatically gain a bit of humanity over time (About 30 per minute) until you reach 2500. You don't replenish humanity by killing bandits or zombies. You only get more humanity replenished when you bandage, morphine or blood bag a player. As a side note, injuring players and shooting others will drop your humanity significantly (Not as much as murder). Interestingly enough, pellet shots at players drops your huanity the most due to the fact that that many shots came from one bullet.

[Johnny_Pfosten 18]

I think most important information was mentioned but if you want to go a little more into detail check here: http://www.dayzwiki.com/wiki/Humanity

Edited September 6, 2012 by Johnny_Pfosten

[Audio Rejectz 144]

Killing Zombies does NOT give you humanity, i have 2078 Zombie kills and it has never gone up as a result of killing zombies

[Leezeebub 7]

How do you change skins?

My characters seem to start on 2500 but obviously never goes up as I have never changed skins and reset it to 0

[Jamz 253]

You gain humanity over time, up until 2500.

And when you change your skin, you "start at 0", but it does stack with the previous 2500 (and other 2500's from before).

Thus, by just playing the game and changing skins often, you will be a hero.

Killing zombies gives you nothing.

So I still don't really understand... I have 4600 humanity carried over from my last life. I've never helped or even spoken to another player but killed hundreds of zombies, I changed skin to a gillie suit last life which I assume therefore raised my humanity from 2500 to 4600, does that sound right?

I killed one player, was awarded a bandit kill which didn't affect my humanity. Also. when I changed skin I kept my civilian clothing, does this mean I could have changed back and forth between the two sets to raise my humanity?

[GBTP 114]

You gain humanity over time, up until 2500.

And when you change your skin, you "start at 0", but it does stack with the previous 2500 (and other 2500's from before).

Thus, by just playing the game and changing skins often, you will be a hero.

Killing zombies gives you nothing.

This is right. If you change skins your humanity sets to 0 and then fills up gradually over time until you change skins again or disconnect. If you disconnect, whatever you have gained since changing skins and playing will be added to whatever your humanity total was before.