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Dead Bird

General

Category

Food

Encumbrance

0.1

Properties

Days fresh

8 days

Days until rotten

12 days

Nutrition

Hunger

-15

Calories

161

Carbohydrates

0.5

Proteins

22

Fat

2

Effect

Unhappiness

20

Cooking

Time until cooked

25 minutes

Time until burned

60 minutes

Dangerous uncooked

True

Bad microwaved

True

Technical

Item ID

Base.DeadBird

A dead bird is a perishable food item used in cooking.

Usage

Consumable properties

A dead bird can be eaten raw, which can make the player sick. Consuming after being cooked will provide the player with some positive effects, however these will become negative the longer it's left to perish.

	Fresh	Stale	Rotten
Uncooked	Hunger: -20 Unhappiness: +20 Dangerous uncooked, may cause sickness.	Hunger: -15 Boredom: +10 Unhappiness: +30 Dangerous uncooked, may cause sickness.	Hunger: -9 Boredom: +20 Unhappiness: +40 Dangerous, will cause sickness.
Cooked	Hunger: -26	Hunger: -15 Boredom: +10 Unhappiness: +30	Hunger: -9 Boredom: +20 Unhappiness: +40 Dangerous, will cause sickness.
Burned	Hunger: -7 Boredom: +20 Unhappiness: +40 Dangerous, will cause sickness.

Crafting

Dead bird can be used in various cooking recipes.

Cooking

Main article: Cooking

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
Small Bird Meat	One of: Kitchen Knife ×1 Hunting Knife ×1 Meat Cleaver ×1 Stone Knife ×1 Machete ×1 Each of: Dead Bird ×1	none	none	none	2.5 Cooking

Distribution

The loot distributions can be found in the table(s) below.

DeadBird distribution Show / Hide

Effective chance calculations are based off of default loot settings, and median zombie density. The higher the density of zombies in an area, the higher the effective chance of an item spawning. Chance is also influenced by the lucky and unlucky traits.

Vehicles

Type	Container	Effective chance
Hunter	Trunk	19.27%
Ranger	Trunk	10.78%

Foraging

Amount	Skill level	Biomes	Weather modifiers				Month modifiers
			Snow	Rain	Day	Night	Months available	Bonus months	Malus months
---	7	Forest 2 DeepForest 2 Vegitation 2 FarmLand 2 Farm 2 TrailerPark 2 TownZone 2 Nav 2	-10	-	-	-	-	-	March April

Trapping

Main article: Trapping

Birds can be found anywhere in Knox Country and are active all day.

They can only be caught with a stick trap, and using bread, bread slice, worm, grasshopper, cockroach, corn or cereal as bait.

Code

Code snippet! This section contains source code from Project ZomboidShow / Hide

Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\items_food.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

item DeadBird
	{
		DisplayName = Dead Bird,
		DisplayCategory = Food,
		Type = Food,
		Weight = 0.1,
		Icon = BirdDead,
		BadCold = true,
		BadInMicrowave = true,
		DangerousUncooked = TRUE,
		GoodHot = true,
		IsCookable = TRUE,
		RemoveUnhappinessWhenCooked = true,
		MinutesToCook = 25,
		MinutesToBurn = 60,
		DaysFresh = 8,
		DaysTotallyRotten = 12,
		HungerChange = -15,
		UnhappyChange = 20,
		Calories = 161,
		Carbohydrates = 0.5,
		Lipids = 2,
		Proteins = 22,
		CustomEatSound = EatingDeadAnimal,
		WorldStaticModel = DeadBird,
	}

See also

• Animal
• Trapping