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Cricket

General

Category

Food

Encumbrance

0.1

Properties

Can boil water

True

Nutrition

Hunger

-5

Calories

20

Carbohydrates

1.34

Proteins

3.6

Fat

1.32

Effect

Unhappiness

20

Cooking

Time until cooked

5 minutes

Time until burned

25 minutes

Technical

Item ID

Base.Cricket

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

Usage

Fishing

Main article: Fishing

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

Trapping

Main article: Trapping

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

Consumable properties

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

State	Icon	Hunger	Boredom	Unhappiness	Sickness chance
Uncooked		-5	-	+20	-
Cooked		-7	-	+20	-
Burned		-2	+20	+40	100%

Location

Foraging

Main article: Foraging

When foraging (investigating area), crickets 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 crickets.

Crickets are part of the "Animals" loot category.

History

Base.Cricket

Version	Description
38.30	Released on or before this version.

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Code

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Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\items_food.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

item Cricket
	{
		DisplayName = Cricket,
		DisplayCategory = Food,
		Type = Food,
		Weight = 0.1,
		Icon = Cricket,
		FishingLure = true,
		IsCookable = TRUE,
		MinutesToCook = 5,
		MinutesToBurn = 25,
		HungerChange = -5,
		UnhappyChange = 20,
		Calories = 20,
		Carbohydrates = 1.34,
		Lipids = 1.32,
		Proteins = 3.6,
		WorldStaticModel = Cricket_Ground,
	}

See also

• Cockroach
• Grasshopper
• Worm