Dead Mouse

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Dead Mouse
General
Category	Food
Weight	0.05
Days until stale	6 days
Days until rotten	10 days
Nutrition
Hunger	-10
Calories	220
Carbohydrates	0.7
Proteins	9.5
Fat	3.15
Effect
Unhappiness	30
Cooking
Time until cooked	15 minutes
Time until burned	50 minutes
Dangerous uncooked	True
Bad microwaved	True
Technical details
Item ID	Base.DeadMouse

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

Usage

Consumable properties

A dead mouse can be eaten raw, which will make the player sick. Consuming after being cooked will not make the player sick and provide the player with some positive effects, however these will become negative the longer it's left to perish.

	Fresh	Stale	Rotten
Uncooked	Hunger: -10 Unhappiness: +30 Dangerous uncooked, may cause sickness.	Hunger: -7 Boredom: +10 Unhappiness: +40 Dangerous uncooked, may cause sickness.	Hunger: -4 Boredom: +20 Unhappiness: +50 Dangerous, will cause sickness.
Cooked	Hunger: -13 Unhappiness: +30	Hunger: -7 Boredom: +10 Unhappiness: +40	Hunger: -4 Boredom: +20 Unhappiness: +50 Dangerous, will cause sickness.
Burned	Hunger: -3 Boredom: +20 Unhappiness: +50 Dangerous, will cause sickness.

Crafting

A dead mouse can be used in various cooking recipes.

Cooking

Main article: Cooking

Product	XP Gained	Skill(s)	Recipe	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2
Rodent Meat	2.5 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	One of: Dead Mouse Dead Rat Dead Squirrel (consumed)

Distribution

Dead mice can be found in kitchen counters and ovens.

Trapping

Main article: Trapping

Mice can usually be caught around farms, trailer parks and urban settings and rarely in forests. They are active all day.

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

From newitems.txt (Project Zomboid directory/media/scripts/)

Retrieved: Build 41.66

    item DeadMouse
    {
        DisplayCategory 	= Food,
        HungerChange		= -10,
        Weight			= 0.05,
        Type			= Food,
        UnhappyChange		= 30,
        DisplayName		= Dead Mouse,
        Icon			=  MouseDead,
        IsCookable		= TRUE,
        DangerousUncooked	= TRUE,
        DaysTotallyRotten	= 10,
        MinutesToBurn		= 50,
        MinutesToCook		= 15,
        DaysFresh		= 6,
        Carbohydrates 		= 0.7,
        Proteins 		= 9.5,
        Lipids 			= 3.15,
        Calories 		= 220,
        BadInMicrowave 		= true,
        StaticModel 		= DeadMouse,
        WorldStaticModel 	= DeadMouseWorld,
        CustomEatSound 		= EatingDeadAnimal,
    }

See also

• Trapping
• Animal