Hunting

Hunting is fundamental part of the DayZ Standalone enviroment similar to Cooking. Hunting animals or going fishing is the only way to get cookable meat.

Basics

• Most animals can be killed with one rifle, shotgun or bow shot
• After you killed a animal, you can skin and quarter them with a Knife like the Machete or the Kitchen Knife
• When skinned, you will achieve the Drops of the animal directly to your Inventory (most frequently 4 pieces of Raw Meat and a pelt) or to the ground infront of you

Animals worth hunting

• Boars
• Chickens
• Cows
• Deer
• Pigs
• Rabbits

Notes

• Animals will start running away from you when you start attacking or simply coming too close to them.
• An Animal's corpse will despawn after 60 seconds as the Zombies.
• The condition of the Knife used for skinning directly affects the quantity of food available on each piece of Raw Meat (~10% with a badly damaged blade, ~90% with a pristine one).
• As for opening Canned Goods, the weapon's condition decreases with the skinning processes.

See Also

• Fishing
• Wildlife