Cockroach

Cockroach

Class	Insects
Type	Insect
Hunger	-1
Thirst	-
Calories	30
Fresh	14 days
Rotten	21 days
Cook Time	5 min
Weight	0.1
Location	Containers
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.Cockroach`

A Cockroach is a small insect that can be eaten, cooked or used as bait. As food it is a desperate choice, since eating one makes the character very unhappy. Its real worth lies in fishing and trapping.

A Cockroach makes good bait for a stick trap, where it lures small birds. It also baits a fishing line and can be mixed into chum. Cockroaches are found in bins and in run-down buildings, and they can be foraged outdoors. The best occupations for insects are the Fishing Guide and the Park Ranger. Each starts with the same Foraging skill.

Eating

Eating a raw Cockroach lowers hunger by only 1 and adds 20 unhappiness. That is a heavy mood cost for almost no food. It holds 30 calories, with about 7 grams of protein, 4 grams of fat and 1 gram of carbohydrates.

Cooking it fills the stomach a little more, but the unhappiness stays the same. A Cricket carries the same 20 unhappiness and only 20 calories. Between the two insects, the Cockroach is the slightly better meal.

A Cockroach makes sense as food only when nothing else is left.

The table shows the game figures for one serving. Negative hunger and thirst fill the character up, and negative unhappiness and boredom cheer them up.

Item	Hunger	Calories	Carbs	Protein	Fat	Unhappiness
Cockroach	-1	30	1.27	7.41	3.9	20

Cooking

A Cockroach cooks in 5 minutes and burns after 25. Cooking one gives no Cooking experience.

In the kitchen its only dish is chum. A Cockroach can be added to chum as bait for fishing.

These dishes take the Cockroach as an ingredient, with the hunger it restores in each.

Dish	Hunger Restored	Note
Chum	1	-

Farming

As trap bait, a Cockroach gives a 50 percent chance to attract a bird. It goes into a stick trap for catching small birds.

Trapped animals it lures as bait.

Animal	Attraction
Bird	50%

Storage

A Cockroach stays fresh for 14 days and is fully rotten by day 21. A fridge slows both counts down. That long shelf life makes a small stock of them practical as bait.

Locations

Cockroaches are a common find in neglected places. Derelict buildings are the best bet, where fridges, freezers and stoves hold them more than half the time. Late-game survivor safehouse stoves carry them about a third of the time. Bins in any building turn them up about one time in five. Fire station, hospital, bar and fast food bins are worth a look.

Cockroaches can also be foraged on grass, sand and gravel, most often in forests. They cannot be found in winter or in snow. The Fisherman occupation and the Angler trait make them easier to spot.

The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.

Work and StorageCachesHomesShops

Location	Container	Chance
Derelict	Freezer	61.5%
Derelict	Fridge	61.5%
Derelict	Stove	61.5%
Fire station storage	Bin	22.9%
Hospital room	Bin	14.5%
Medical	Bin	14.5%
Derelict	Other	6.2%
Derelict steel factory	Other	6.2%

Location	Container	Chance
Survivor safehouse (late game)	Stove	33.9%
Survivor safehouse (late game)	Counter	10.8%
Survivor safehouse (late game)	Bin	6.2%
Survivor safehouse (late game)	Freezer	4.8%