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Cockroach

General

Category

Food

Encumbrance

0.1

Function

• Bait in Fishing

Nutrition

Hunger

-5

Calories

30

Carbohydrates

1.27

Proteins

7.41

Fat

3.9

Effect

Unhappiness

+20

Cooking

Time until cooked

5 minutes

Time until burned

25 minutes

Technical

Item ID

Base.Cockroach

A cockroach is a non-perishable food used in fishing.

Usage

Fishing

Main article: Fishing

A cockroach can be used as bait for fishing to catch bass, catfish, crappie, perch, sunfish, and trout.

Trapping

Main article: Trapping

A cockroach can be used as bait for trapping to catch a small bird in a stick trap.

Consumable properties

Cockroaches can be consumed, reducing hunger at the cost of a lot of unhappiness. They can be cooked to reduce more hunger, however the unhappiness effect will remain.

Uncooked	Cooked	Burned
Hunger: -5 Unhappiness: +20	Hunger: -7 Unhappiness: +20	Hunger: -2 Boredom: +20 Unhappiness: +40 Dangerous, will cause sickness.

Distribution

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

Cockroach 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.

Containers

Building/Room	Container	Effective chance
all	bin	6.29%
bar	bin	6.29%
barkitchen	bin	6.29%
barstorage	bin	6.29%
beergarden	bin	6.29%
garagestorage	crate	15.1%
motelroomoccupied	bin	6.29%
storageunit	crate	15.1%

Foraging

Amount	Skill level	Biomes	Weather modifiers				Month modifiers
			Snow	Rain	Day	Night	Months available	Bonus months	Malus months
---	0	Forest 10 DeepForest 10 Vegitation 10 FarmLand 10 Farm 10 TrailerPark 10 TownZone 10 Nav 10	-20	-	-	-	-	-	March April

Building

Cockroaches can be found in bins and crates of spoiled food.

Foraging

Main article: Foraging

When foraging (investigating area), cockroaches can be found on natural_exterior tiles, such as: grass, sand and gravel. They're most commonly found in forests and vegetation areas, however cannot be found during winter or the snow.

Having the fisherman occupation or angler trait will increase the player's ability to find cockroaches.

Cockroaches are part of the "Animals" loot category.

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 Cockroach
	{
		DisplayName = Cockroach,
		DisplayCategory = Food,
		Type = Food,
		Weight = 0.1,
		Icon = Cockroach,
		FishingLure = true,
		IsCookable = TRUE,
		MinutesToCook = 5,
		MinutesToBurn = 25,
		HungerChange = -5,
		UnhappyChange = 20,
		Calories = 30,
		Carbohydrates = 1.27,
		Lipids = 3.9,
		Proteins = 7.41,
		WorldStaticModel = Cockroach_Ground,
	}

See also

• Cricket
• Grasshopper
• Worm