Bear Steak
Bear Steak is a meat food item in DayZ obtained from a Bear. Raw Bear Steak takes 4 inventory slots, weighs 650 g, provides 250 kcal and 200 mL of water, but raw, burned, or rotten meat can make you sick. Cooking Bear Steak only has a 60% chance to remove Salmonellosis, so it is still riskier than most cooked meats.
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Bear Steak is a meat food item in DayZ obtained from a Bear. It can be cooked into baked, boiled, dried, burned, or rotten variants. Baked Bear Steak gives very high energy, boiled Bear Steak gives more hydration, and dried Bear Steak keeps strong food value with less water. Bear meat is dangerous because cooking Bear Steak only has a 60% chance of removing Salmonellosis from raw meat, meaning eating it can still make you sick.
In-game description
“A piece of a bear steak.”
Main Uses
- Cook for a high-energy meat source
- Bake for the highest energy value
- Boil for better hydration than baked or dried versions
- Dry for long-lasting food value with less water
- Use after hunting a Bear
- Avoid eating raw, burned, or rotten Bear Steak
- Be careful even when cooked because Bear Steak has a Salmonellosis risk
How to use this item
Eat Bear Steak safely
Bear Steak is risky compared to normal meat because cooking only has a 60% chance to remove Salmonellosis.
- Obtain Bear Steak from a Bear.
- Do not eat it raw.
- Cook it before eating.
- Prefer baked, boiled, or dried Bear Steak over raw, burned, or rotten variants.
- Be aware that cooked Bear Steak can still carry Salmonellosis risk.
Cook Bear Steak
Cook Bear Steak to improve its nutrition value, but remember that it is still riskier than most cooked meats.
- Prepare a fire, stove, or cooking setup.
- Place Bear Steak in the cooking slot or cookware.
- Cook it into baked, boiled, or dried Bear Steak.
- Remove it before it burns.
- Avoid burned or rotten Bear Steak because it can make you sick.
How to get Bear Steak
- Hunt and kill a Bear.
- Process the Bear after hunting it.
- Collect Bear Steak from the animal.
- Loot players carrying hunted meat.
Spawn info
- • Bear Steak is obtained from a Bear.
- • It is a Food and Drink item under Meats.
- • Raw Bear Steak provides 250 kcal.
- • Raw Bear Steak provides 200 mL of water.
- • Raw Bear Steak has 2500 mL stomach volume.
- • It takes 4 inventory slots.
- • It weighs 650 g.
- • Cooking Bear Steak has only a 60% chance to remove Salmonellosis.
- • It has raw, baked, boiled, dried, burned, and rotten variants.
Food and nutrition notes
Energy
250 kcal
Water
200 mL
Stomach
2500 mL
Quantity
500
Max wetness
Damp (24.9%)
Freeze time
66 minutes
Freezing point
-0.5 °C / 31.1 °F
Max temperature
105 °C / 221 °F
Notes
- • Raw Bear Steak provides 250 kcal and 200 mL of water.
- • Baked Bear Steak provides 2000 kcal and 80 mL of water.
- • Boiled Bear Steak provides 1750 kcal and 320 mL of water.
- • Dried Bear Steak provides 1750 kcal and 40 mL of water.
- • Burned Bear Steak provides 250 kcal and 0 mL of water.
- • Rotten Bear Steak provides 125 kcal and 80 mL of water.
- • Raw, burned, or rotten meat can make you sick.
- • Cooking Bear Steak has only a 60% chance of removing Salmonellosis.
- • Bear Steak is obtained from a Bear.
Important notes
- Bear Steak is obtained from a Bear.
- Raw Bear Steak provides 250 kcal.
- Raw Bear Steak provides 200 mL of water.
- Raw Bear Steak has 2500 mL stomach volume.
- It takes 4 inventory slots.
- It weighs 650 g.
- It is categorized as Food and Drink > Meats.
- Raw, burned, or rotten meat can make you sick.
- Cooking Bear Steak has only a 60% chance of removing Salmonellosis.
- Baked Bear Steak provides very high energy.
- Boiled Bear Steak provides more hydration than baked or dried Bear Steak.
- Dried Bear Steak keeps high energy value with low water value.