Riamus
Hunter
Yeah, basically. Unless you're not killing anything and position yourself in an area that has a lot of zombies nearby, the smell does very little. If you are killing things as you go into an area and then eat something, you might attract half a dozen zombies or something, but they are usually staggered. They don't attack at the same time. It is similar to a buried supplies quest in that you get them coming in at different speeds from different directions. Unless you don't know how to fight, it's very easy to handle them mostly one at a time. Smell doesn't activate sleeping zombies or unspawned zombies, so you'll only bring in biome spawns, which are not very densely populated. If a player can't handle the limited number of zombies that are attracted to smell, then they aren't going to be able to handle running through a POI. If they can handle a POI, they can handle the zombies attracted to smell. The most smell really does is attract a few nearby zombies, if there are any, and continue to do so as you move around. So you might have to fight more, but not all at once and they aren't any more difficult to deal with than if you just come across zombies normally.
Maybe they are a challenge for new players. But I cleaned smell off one time in experimental and never did again. It just wasn't necessary and the cold from getting wet was actually more bothersome than the smell, making it not worth doing.
