Alternative food source / long term survival

[Nakovalen]

In late game they only source of food is through army drops, which I've got nothing against actually. But I'd like to play the eventual break up of the national guards. This would be an irreparable situation where the national guards wont be able to help the city.

In this scenario it wouldbe nice to have 3 new mechanism that will give us food.

1.Scavenging:

Dec 2, 2010 16:48:17 GMT zebiolizard2 said:

Actually rubbish could be interesting to have. It'd basically be large junk piles you could search through for items, possibly hidden zombies too. Providing cans of food or various things.

Thanks Zeb. Junk piles would be searchable, non destructible, and non pushable. You'd have something like 30% of finding an item. After 5 items are scavenged from a Junk pile it becomes Rubbish which is good for nothing. Items that can be found: can of food, groceries, batteries, seeds (see Gardening), improvised weapons, parts (for Crafting), ammo, lightsabers...what?

2.Gardening: growing vegetables in a patch of land. You'd need a garden tool (that doubles as a weapon) and seeds. After you've done the planting, plants will grow automatically (no water and stuff needed) in 1 week.

3.Cannibalism: hell yes. I've mentioned this before. Cannibalism would be supported with the trust system included in 6.0. Killing someone brands you as Murderer, eating someone brands you as Cannibal. In other words you turn out to be the bad guy. Corpse would stay fresh for a few days only, and they'd attract zombies too.

This new mechanisms would promote long term surviving, maintaining a strong shelter and keeping a good team of followers. And i think it would drastically change the pace of the game after 1 month of surviving.

Maybe its a bit too much to implement. Would you grow a garden in your shelter? Have you survived more than 1 month?

[zebiolizard2]

2.Gardening: growing vegetables in a patch of land. You'd need a garden tool(that doubles as a weapon) and seeds. After you've done the planting, plants will grow automatically (no water and stuff needed) in 1 week.

Expanding upon this, you'd need a trough (takes up two to four spaces) + soil + water to garden inside. If you did it that way it could be upon normal grass, but if you want it indoors. No, you could use pot (one space) + soil + water for less plants, or for planting good tomatoes in order to save space.

As someone mentioned before, you could possibly find berries/vegetable gardens/Fruit tree's and the like from behind peoples homes, that hopefully aren't stripped yet, where you could find things like seeds/fresh fruit and the like.

I don't believe berry bushes should be permanently renewable though as someone has mentioned, as the kinds that usually are edible are often provided for by caretakers, but you could be the caretaker so long as you care for them, giving water once in a while.

[curtisjack10]

I like the idea of building. But you would have to keep the plant outside or people will just stay holed up in a building and never come out.

[Nakovalen]

I don't see a problem with people holed up. I mean, the option could be there...let people play however they want. Besides, a garden would feed you once a week...that's not enough to stay inside all the time.

[Aaron]

Just get 7 or so gardens. >.>

Beside, some zed will eventually break down your door, especially disciples at one point.

[curtisjack10]

If you had enough plants ou could sotre leftovers. It would be hard for disciples to find you if you dont leave a scent 'downstairs.

[runhidesurvive]

i think this is quite a good idea because sooner or later you will die from hunger if you have scavanged all the food around the area and other survivors can try and kill you if you go to a drop to gardening is a good idea but rougejack could make it that you have to find seeds in the first week otherwise all the other survivors get them, or you need to take gardening as a skill

[stolas]

This seems like a rather obscure interest, but a good one. What this seems like is a Modder's suggestion, I personally love the idea, but I can't really imagine getting an area to be so stabilized that you wouldn't need to worry about Zombies breaking in, or "Those guys", or Bikers, or hungry Survivors.... Yeah.

[stolas]

I'm just saying, I don't really know if such an item would be added to the main game or not, but I've seen similar mods added to Minecraft like Dr Zhark's Farmcraft Mod.