Field manual · Survive
Hunting
corroborated
Short answer
Hunt when the food return justifies the noise, travel and butchering risk.
Also: hunt animals · deer · cow · goat · pig
What to do
Locate the animal. Kill it safely. Butcher with a cutting tool. Prevent bloody-hand contamination. Cook the meat using the correct animal-specific safety route.
How it works
Hunting can stabilize a long run, but gunshots and carcasses create exposure. Treat bear/wolf and human-derived food as special cases.
Evidence
Status: corroborated. Baseline from 1.29. Sources: DayZ Wiki - Hunting; DayZ official Stable Update 1.29 thread. Unofficial field-manual pack (v24). Not Bohemia. Empty boxes stay empty.
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- Which Food Method Should I Use?corroborated
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- Canned foodneeds verification