DayZ Guide: This is How You Can Preserve Food

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 1.10!

Preserving food in DayZ: Here’s how!

These foods are there: In DayZ you will encounter a wide variety of types of food.
This ranges from vegetable to animal to chemistry:

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:

1. Preserving Meat 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

 

2. Preserve Fruit, Vegetables & Mushrooms

	Raw	Cooked	Baked	Dried
Inventory	5 h	14 h	20 h	Infinite
Storage	14 h	2 Days	3 Days	Infinite

 

3. Canned Food Spoils…

	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.

Eating Spoiled Food: Consequences and Treatment

What happens: if you are lucky, nothing will happen to you. Whether this is intended by the developer Bohemia Interactive or a bug is currently unclear. On the other hand, if luck isn’t on your side, you will get sick.

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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.