Getting Started

Food & Water

The two most important icons that you need to keep an eye on after the blood icon are your food and water level icons because if you don't eat and drink you will eventually die.

The water bottle icon represents your water level and the knife and fork icon represents your food level. When your food and water level is high, both icons will be green.

As your food and water levels run out, the inside of the icons will become transparent and the color will slowly change to red, indicating that you need to either eat or drink.

If you don't increase your food and water levels the icons will begin flashing indicating that your life is in danger after which you will begin loosing blood and eventually die.

You can replenish your water level by drinking water from water bottles (which can be refilled), or by drinking soda from cans that can be found in shops and residential buildings.

To replenish your food level you can eat food such as tuna, pasta or baked beans from cans that can be found in shops and residential buildings. You can also kill animals, gut them and cook their meat on a fire.

Gutting animals

You can kill animals such as cows and goats, gut them using a hunting knife and cook their meat on a fire to make steaks which you can eat to replenish your food level.

To gut animals:

• Kill an animal
• Open your gear menu by pressing
• Right-click on the hunting knife in your inventory and select 'Gut animal'
• Pickup the meat from the ground around the animal.

Cooking meat

To cook meat you will need to make a fire (#Making a fire)

Temperature

The thermometer icon is something to keep an eye on while playing as there is a good chance that you may catch an infection if you get too cold, symptoms of which include a loud cough that attracts zombies and unwanted attention from other players.

A red thermometer icon indicates that your current body temperature is normal.

If sitting still for a long time, exposed to rain, moving around on snow, swimming for too long or spending extended periods over time over water, the thermometer icon will slowly lighten until it turns blue indicating that your body temperature has fallen and you are cold.

If you do not warm yourself up the thermometer icon will eventually become empty and start flashing which indicates that your body temperate has become life threatening and you need to find a source of heat as soon as possible.

Warming yourself up

You can warm yourself up by:

• Making a fire and standing close to it for a while.
• Running for an extended period of time.
• Using a heat pack

Making a fire

Naturally the easiest way to warm yourself up is to make a fire. To make a fire you will need a wood pile and a matchbox:

(You can chop down trees with a hatchet to make wood piles, click here to lean now.)

• Open your gear menu by pressing
• Right-click on the match box in your tool belt and select 'make fire'.

Once you have made the fireplace move close to it and select 'Light Fire' from the action menu to light it.

TIP: You can also light some of the barrels scarred around the map using matches.

What can I use a fire for?

Fires can be used to warm yourself up when your body temperature is low and to cook meat.