Never, ever eat the rotten fruit. Drink a soda if you're absolutely dying of starvation if you can find one.
FYI if you're ever dying of thirst and find a can of sardines, they fill up your water as well. Sodas add a bit of food. There's this whole weird energy system going on, wherein certain food adds certain amounts of energy but either add/subtracts water, which goes towards determining thirst. Drinking some beverages, likewise, will add food but remove energy (I think). I think the best system is just to gobble down everything you find until your character is about to vomit, then just hoard all the food/water you can.
Also, can I be in the Unicorn squad? I really need decoys... erm, I mean covering fire for my runs into the Balota barracks and the new military bases.
EDIT: link to DayzDB guide explaining the rather confusing hunger/thirst system
http://dayzdb.com/guide/1-hunger-and-thirst
As well, don't bother with blood bags. You need the correct blood type as the person you siphon the blood from to be able to bloodbag, and every time you die your blood type changes. If you bloodbag yourself with the wrong blood type, you instantly die. There are as many blood types and variations of blood types in DayZ as there are in reality, so it's just a crapshoot as to whether you're going to get someone willing to bloodbag you that has the right bloodtype and isn't going to be nearly murdered by the siphon and transfusion.
Apparently the saline IV kit does what the vanilla DayZ mod bloodbags used to do, so they're far more valuable. Apparently, there are epi pens and they'll revive you but I've never seen one. I'm fairly certain you can use a defibrillator to wake an unconscious player. AFAIK there's no other way to come out of unconsciousness, even if you aren't bleeding. There doesn't seem to be a timer, and if you log off while unconscious it murders your character. Unfortunately, epi pens are rare, and the defib takes up an entire 4 slots and you can only use it on other people, so if you get knocked out alone, you're fucked.
You either have to wait, online in game for one of your friends to run to you, for your character to die of hunger/thirst, or for the near impossible chance that someone will run across you who is not only friendly, but not interested in your gear, who actually realizes you're unconscious, who knows how to deal with unconsciousness, and additionally has a defib and knows how to use it.
FYI if you're ever dying of thirst and find a can of sardines, they fill up your water as well. Sodas add a bit of food. There's this whole weird energy system going on, wherein certain food adds certain amounts of energy but either add/subtracts water, which goes towards determining thirst. Drinking some beverages, likewise, will add food but remove energy (I think). I think the best system is just to gobble down everything you find until your character is about to vomit, then just hoard all the food/water you can.
Also, can I be in the Unicorn squad? I really need decoys... erm, I mean covering fire for my runs into the Balota barracks and the new military bases.
EDIT: link to DayzDB guide explaining the rather confusing hunger/thirst system
http://dayzdb.com/guide/1-hunger-and-thirst
As well, don't bother with blood bags. You need the correct blood type as the person you siphon the blood from to be able to bloodbag, and every time you die your blood type changes. If you bloodbag yourself with the wrong blood type, you instantly die. There are as many blood types and variations of blood types in DayZ as there are in reality, so it's just a crapshoot as to whether you're going to get someone willing to bloodbag you that has the right bloodtype and isn't going to be nearly murdered by the siphon and transfusion.
Apparently the saline IV kit does what the vanilla DayZ mod bloodbags used to do, so they're far more valuable. Apparently, there are epi pens and they'll revive you but I've never seen one. I'm fairly certain you can use a defibrillator to wake an unconscious player. AFAIK there's no other way to come out of unconsciousness, even if you aren't bleeding. There doesn't seem to be a timer, and if you log off while unconscious it murders your character. Unfortunately, epi pens are rare, and the defib takes up an entire 4 slots and you can only use it on other people, so if you get knocked out alone, you're fucked.
You either have to wait, online in game for one of your friends to run to you, for your character to die of hunger/thirst, or for the near impossible chance that someone will run across you who is not only friendly, but not interested in your gear, who actually realizes you're unconscious, who knows how to deal with unconsciousness, and additionally has a defib and knows how to use it.
