Since DayZ Update 1.10, food will spoil sooner or later. In this guide, We'll show you what you have to consider all types of food & how to preserve it.
Update 1.10 introduces shelf life: Since the DayZ Update 1.10, food will spoil regardless of what you are doing. This happens at different speeds depending on the type and preservation. But you can counteract this by making it durable. We have also written a general guide to cooking in DayZ.
In DayZ, you can find over 40 food items. This ranges from plant-based to animal-based, and even canned goods. Except for canned goods, everything can spoil. Therefore, you should always aim to find and store a supply of non-perishable food items. In the table below, you will find all the food items in DayZ:
Meat | Vegetables | Fruit | Mushroom | Canned Food | Dry | Drinks |
Bear | Tomato | Apple | Field Mushroom | Baked Beans | Cereals | Nota Cola |
Boar | Pepper | Pear | Fly Amanita | Peaches | Powdered Milk | Spite |
Pig | Potato | Plum | Liberty Cap | Sardines | Rice | Pipsi |
Cow | Pumpkin | Oyster Mushroom | Tactical Bacon | Kvass | ||
Chicken | Zucchini | Parasol Mushroom | Tuna | Water | ||
Goat | Penny Bun | Spaghetti | ||||
Deer | Red Pine Mushroom | Strawberry Jam | ||||
Mouflon | Wood Ear | |||||
Sheep | ||||||
Wolf | ||||||
Carp | ||||||
Mackerel |
So far, only meat and vegetables are able to spoil. The other foods should follow with later patches. The function for fruit and mushrooms is already integrated into the game but does not work yet. Kibble and drinks, on the other hand, will never spoil.
How long food lasts in DayZ: Depending on the method of preparation, you can keep the different raw foods for different lengths of time. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that raw food spoils the fastest.
That is followed by cooked, then baked and the longest-lasting Kibbles. In detail, it looks like this in DayZ:
Raw | Cooked | Baked | Dried | |
Inventory | 1,66 h | 20 h | 28 h | 56 h |
Storage | 7 h | 3 Days | 4 Days | 8 Days |
Raw | Cooked | Baked | Dried | |
Inventory | 5 h | 14 h | 20 h | Infinite |
Storage | 14 h | 2 Days | 3 Days | Infinite |
Unopened | Opened | |
Inventory | Never | 14 h |
Storage | Never | 2 Days |
Before your food is completely moldy, it begins to take on a different status. At three-quarters of the maximum shelf life reached, the food begins to change, at the latest you should eat it now.
Should necessity force you to eat spoiled food, you will become ill. In rare cases or with small amounts of spoiled food, nothing might happen. Typically, however, you will contract food poisoning (salmonella infection), which can only be cured with charcoal tablets and a lengthy recovery.
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Salmonella is the most harmless of the diseases. Here you just toss in one or more charcoal tablets and drink enough until you feel better.
For chemical poisoning, symptoms and treatment are the same. The only difference is how quickly you lose water and stomach contents. These values are many times higher in the case of poisoning than with salmonella. To make your immune system stronger, you can also swallow vitamin tablets.
Great guide, thanks for making this.