Hollowprime
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Hello again folks.
I will be straight. Fertilizers made out of rotting meat makes absolutely zero sense. I've recently started watching the walking dead series and saw how much common it has with this game. In fact I think the devs have taken lots of nice little features from the series and incorporated them into the game (walkers are more organized in the night and have a herd mind so they gather into hordes ,are attracted by heat light and noise etc).
However one thing that must be really stressed out is the fact that almost everyone in the series pointed out the obvious: They don't want walker corpses into their crops. And why would they? They are infecting everything and if you just so happen to get as much as a scratch from the walkers,let alone eat their poisonous parts will turn you into infected.
Instead fertilizers can be very easily crafted with compost assuming you have the right components.Fertilizers are usually made with a lot of paper,wood,leaves and leftovers from food but mostly patience! A fertilizer requires around 6 months of rotting time .It's best to move the compost container up and down every few months for it to work. So I do understand the need for a mixer but it doesn't necessarily have to be the ones we have now.
Rotten meat should be burned and tossed away to clear path.
If you want it to be used as a material it already serves its purpose as food for when you starve. If you need it as a component for something bigger...well..you could try feeding it to the flies as they seem to be unaffected by the virus (codeword SEEM) and those flies could be fed to chicken or other animals that eat insects. I personally wouldn't even do that. I would wait for the virus to die out in the wilderness and in the change of climate or even burn it then feed it to the trees.
As a last resort we could use the bones as barricades and the meat as bait for the actual animals which should not come into contact with it otherwise they are infected as well.
In general rotten meat is a very,very bad idea as any form of component and should be tossed aside or burned or somehow recycled but away from the survivors and definitely not be a part of the food chain.
Thanks for your time.
I will be straight. Fertilizers made out of rotting meat makes absolutely zero sense. I've recently started watching the walking dead series and saw how much common it has with this game. In fact I think the devs have taken lots of nice little features from the series and incorporated them into the game (walkers are more organized in the night and have a herd mind so they gather into hordes ,are attracted by heat light and noise etc).
However one thing that must be really stressed out is the fact that almost everyone in the series pointed out the obvious: They don't want walker corpses into their crops. And why would they? They are infecting everything and if you just so happen to get as much as a scratch from the walkers,let alone eat their poisonous parts will turn you into infected.
Instead fertilizers can be very easily crafted with compost assuming you have the right components.Fertilizers are usually made with a lot of paper,wood,leaves and leftovers from food but mostly patience! A fertilizer requires around 6 months of rotting time .It's best to move the compost container up and down every few months for it to work. So I do understand the need for a mixer but it doesn't necessarily have to be the ones we have now.
Rotten meat should be burned and tossed away to clear path.
If you want it to be used as a material it already serves its purpose as food for when you starve. If you need it as a component for something bigger...well..you could try feeding it to the flies as they seem to be unaffected by the virus (codeword SEEM) and those flies could be fed to chicken or other animals that eat insects. I personally wouldn't even do that. I would wait for the virus to die out in the wilderness and in the change of climate or even burn it then feed it to the trees.
As a last resort we could use the bones as barricades and the meat as bait for the actual animals which should not come into contact with it otherwise they are infected as well.
In general rotten meat is a very,very bad idea as any form of component and should be tossed aside or burned or somehow recycled but away from the survivors and definitely not be a part of the food chain.
Thanks for your time.
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