DayZ Standalone
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Camouflage #322 """
Do NOT carry food! Eat it!
Maybe you don't watch Agathor's excellent YouTube videos (Channel: Wobo), but if you want to know about the science of DayZ, then you should. Carrying food with you is a poor idea. It does you no good at all, and in fact, in can hurt you greatly.
You spawn in with 1,800 energy (2,000 is the limit for "I'm hungry") but your maximum is a massive 20,000 - the equivalent of almost 40 cans of Beans! It means your guts and fat are a gigantic built-in, food-carrying gutpack! Once you are hydrated, and fed, you regenerate health rapidly when injured.
Additionally, every item you carry in a backpack ADDS 0.65% blood and shock damage when you get shot. For a full Emkavec, that's 23% extra damage you take! Having food in your backpack is the equivalent of buying 8GB of new RAM, and then putting it in the top drawer of your PC desk, and then running a CPU benchmark while you play DayZ!
So, you shouldn't carry food on you unless 1 of the 2 following conditions is true:
1) You haven't found a safe place to eat, or
2) You plan on giving the food away.
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