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Dead Rat

General

Category

Food

Encumbrance

0.2

Properties

Days fresh

6 days

Days until rotten

10 days

Nutrition

Hunger

-22

Calories

324

Carbohydrates

0

Proteins

40

Fat

16

Effect

Unhappiness

30

Cooking

Time until cooked

20 minutes

Time until burned

60 minutes

Dangerous uncooked

True

Bad microwaved

True

Technical

Item ID

Base.DeadRat

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

Usage

Consumable properties

A dead rat 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: -15 Unhappiness: +30 Dangerous uncooked, may cause sickness.	Hunger: -11 Boredom: +10 Unhappiness: +40 Dangerous uncooked, may cause sickness.	Hunger: -6 Boredom: +20 Unhappiness: +50 Dangerous, will cause sickness.
Cooked	Hunger: -19 Unhappiness: +30	Hunger: -11 Boredom: +10 Unhappiness: +40	Hunger: -6 Boredom: +20 Unhappiness: +50 Dangerous, will cause sickness.
Burned	Hunger: -5 Boredom: +20 Unhappiness: +50 Dangerous, will cause sickness.

Crafting

Dead rat can be used is various cooking recipes.

Cooking

Main article: Cooking

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
Rodent Meat	One of: Kitchen Knife ×1 Hunting Knife ×1 Meat Cleaver ×1 Stone Knife ×1 Machete ×1	none	none	none	2.5 Cooking
Dead Rat (Cooked)	Dead Rat (Uncooked) ×1	none	none	Heat source	2.5 Cooking

Distribution

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

DeadRat 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
SafehouseLoot	counter	1.01%
SurvivorCache1	counter	1.01%
SurvivorCache2	counter	1.01%
all	junk	2.81%
bar	bin	1.61%
barkitchen	bin	1.61%
barstorage	bin	1.61%
beergarden	bin	1.61%
garagestorage	crate	10.78%
kitchen	counter	1.01%
kitchen	overhead	1.01%
kitchen	shelves	1.01%
livingroom	counter	1.01%
livingroom	overhead	1.01%
motelroomoccupied	bin	2.81%
storageunit	crate	10.78%

Foraging

Amount	Skill level	Biomes	Weather modifiers				Month modifiers
			Snow	Rain	Day	Night	Months available	Bonus months	Malus months
---	5	Forest 2 DeepForest 2 Vegitation 2 FarmLand 5 Farm 5 TrailerPark 10 TownZone 10 Nav 1	-10	-	-	-	-	-	March April

Dead rats can be found in kitchen counters and ovens.

Trapping

Main article: Trapping

Rats can usually be caught around farms, trailer parks and urban settings and rarely in forests. They are active all day and slightly rarer than mice.

They can only be caught using a mouse trap, and using cheese, processed cheese, peanut butter, chocolate, bacon bits, an apple, orange, or tomato 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 DeadRat
	{
		DisplayName = Dead Rat,
		DisplayCategory = Food,
		Type = Food,
		Weight = 0.2,
		Icon = DeadRat,
		BadInMicrowave = true,
		DangerousUncooked = TRUE,
		IsCookable = TRUE,
		MinutesToCook = 20,
		MinutesToBurn = 60,
		DaysFresh = 6,
		DaysTotallyRotten = 10,
		HungerChange = -22,
		UnhappyChange = 30,
		Calories = 324,
		Carbohydrates = 0,
		Lipids = 16,
		Proteins = 40,
		CustomEatSound = EatingDeadAnimal,
		StaticModel = DeadRat,
		WorldStaticModel = DeadRat,
	}

See also

• Trapping
• Animal