Dead Bird

Dead Bird

Class	Raw Meat and Fish
Type	-
Hunger	-15
Thirst	-
Calories	161
Fresh	8 days
Rotten	12 days
Cook Time	25 min
Weight	0.1
Location	Containers
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.DeadBird`

A Dead Bird is a whole small bird that can be cooked and eaten or butchered for meat. It is a light catch, so it fits easily into a pack. Eaten raw, it can make the character sick, so it should always be cooked first.

Cooked, a Dead Bird lowers hunger by 15 and works as a meat ingredient in soups, stews, pies and many other dishes. It keeps for about a week before it starts to turn. Birds are caught in stick traps, and a dead bird can turn up in the fridge or freezer of a late survivor safehouse. The Rancher is the best occupation for raw meat and fish. It starts with the most Butchering skill. The Chef and the Fishing Guide also start with some Butchering skill.

Eating

A Dead Bird lowers hunger by 15 and weighs only 0.1. It also makes the character unhappier by 20, so it is a grim meal on its own. Eating it warm helps, since it is better hot and worse cold.

The bird holds 161 calories. It has 22 grams of protein, 2 grams of fat and almost no carbohydrates. That is a lean meal that will not do much to raise body weight.

Among the small trapped animals, the bird is one of the lighter meals. A Dead Mouse lowers hunger by 10 and a Dead Rat by 22. A Dead Squirrel lowers hunger by 32 and a Dead Rabbit by 45. Raw, all of them carry the same risk of food sickness.

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
Dead Bird	-15	161	0.5	22	2	20

Cooking

A Dead Bird cooks in 25 minutes and burns after 60. It can go in an oven or over a fire. A microwave works too, but cooking it there spoils the meal and leaves it less pleasant to eat.

The bird is a meat ingredient. It adds 10 hunger to Soup, Stew, Pie, Stir Fry, Rice and Pasta. Once cooked, it adds 10 to a Burger or a Salad and 5 to a Sandwich. A few birds in one pot of soup or stew add up to a filling meal.

A knife or a meat cleaver can also butcher the bird. The Butcher Small Animal recipe turns it into Small Bird Meat.

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

Dish	Hunger Restored	Note
Burger	10	Cooked only
Pasta	10	-
Pie	10	-
Rice	10	-
Salad	10	Cooked only
Soup	10	-
Stew	10	-
Stir Fry	10	-
Sandwich	5	Cooked only

Used in Crafting

These recipes take the Dead Bird as an ingredient or a part.

Recipe	Output	Image	Station	Skill	Spawn ID
Butcher Small Animal	Small Bird Meat		-	Butchering: 0	`/additem Base.Smallbirdmeat`

Storage

A Dead Bird stays fresh for 8 days and is fully rotten by day 12. A fridge slows both counts, and a freezer slows them far more. Rotten meat is a poor and risky meal, so cook the bird while it is fresh.

Locations

Dead Birds come mainly from trapping. Birds live all over Knox Country and are active all day. They can only be caught with a stick trap. Bread, a bread slice, worms, grasshoppers, cockroaches, corn and cereal all work as bait.

In the loot tables, a dead bird appears only in survivor safehouses later in the game. The freezer and the fridge there each hold one a little under a fifth of the time.

The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container.