Mackerel Fillet
Mackerel Fillet is a fish meat food item in DayZ obtained by fishing for a Mackerel and gutting it with a Knife. Raw Mackerel Fillet takes 3 inventory slots, weighs 375 g, provides 100 kcal and 200 mL of water, but eating it raw can cause poisoning.
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Mackerel Fillet is a salt-water fish meat food item in DayZ obtained from a Mackerel. After catching a Mackerel, you can gut it with a Knife to get Mackerel Fillets. Mackerel Fillets can be eaten raw, baked, boiled, dried, burned, or rotten, but raw, burned, and rotten fish can make you sick. Cooking Mackerel Fillet is the safer option, with baked fillets giving the highest energy and boiled fillets giving the best hydration.
In-game description
“A piece of mackerel. This medium-sized salt-water fish has sweet and tangy meat, tastes best lightly cooked.”
Main Uses
- Eat as a salt-water fish food source
- Bake for the highest energy value
- Boil for the best hydration value
- Dry for longer-lasting food value with less water
- Use after fishing for Mackerel
- Avoid eating raw, burned, or rotten Mackerel Fillet
How to use this item
Eat Mackerel Fillet safely
Mackerel Fillet should be cooked before eating because raw fish can cause poisoning.
- Catch a Mackerel while fishing.
- Gut the Mackerel with a Knife to obtain Mackerel Fillets.
- Do not eat the fillet raw unless you are desperate.
- Cook it into baked, boiled, or dried Mackerel Fillet.
- Avoid burned or rotten Mackerel Fillet because it can make you sick.
Prepare Mackerel Fillet
Mackerel Fillet is made by catching a Mackerel and gutting it with a Knife.
- Catch a Mackerel using fishing gear.
- Place the Mackerel in your inventory or hands.
- Use a Knife to gut the Mackerel.
- Collect the Mackerel Fillets.
- Cook the fillets before eating for safer food.
Cook Mackerel Fillet
Mackerel Fillet can be cooked for better nutrition and safer eating.
- Prepare a Fireplace, stove, or cooking setup.
- Place the Mackerel Fillet in the cooking slot or cookware.
- Cook it into a baked, boiled, or dried version.
- Remove it before it burns.
- Eat the cooked fillet or save it for travel.
How to get Mackerel Fillet
- Catch a Mackerel while fishing.
- Gut the Mackerel with a Knife.
- Collect Mackerel Fillet from the gutted fish.
- Loot players carrying fish or cooked food.
Spawn info
- • Mackerel Fillet is obtained from a Mackerel.
- • A Knife is used to gut the Mackerel.
- • It is a Food and Drink item under Meats.
- • Raw Mackerel Fillet provides 100 kcal.
- • Raw Mackerel Fillet provides 200 mL of water.
- • Raw Mackerel Fillet has 2500 mL stomach volume.
- • It takes 3 inventory slots.
- • It weighs 375 g.
- • Eating raw Mackerel Fillet can cause poisoning.
- • It has raw, baked, boiled, dried, burned, and rotten variants.
Food and nutrition notes
Energy
100 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 Mackerel Fillet provides 100 kcal and 200 mL of water.
- • Baked Mackerel Fillet provides 1000 kcal and 120 mL of water.
- • Boiled Mackerel Fillet provides 850 kcal and 320 mL of water.
- • Dried Mackerel Fillet provides 800 kcal and 40 mL of water.
- • Burned Mackerel Fillet provides 150 kcal and 0 mL of water.
- • Rotten Mackerel Fillet provides 50 kcal and 50 mL of water.
- • Eating raw Mackerel Fillet can cause poisoning.
- • Raw, burned, or rotten fish can make you sick.
- • Mackerel Fillet is obtained by gutting a Mackerel with a Knife.
Important notes
- Mackerel Fillet is obtained from a Mackerel.
- You need a Knife to gut the Mackerel.
- Raw Mackerel Fillet provides 100 kcal.
- Raw Mackerel Fillet provides 200 mL of water.
- Raw Mackerel Fillet has 2500 mL stomach volume.
- It takes 3 inventory slots.
- It weighs 375 g.
- It is categorized as Food and Drink > Meats.
- Eating raw Mackerel Fillet can cause poisoning.
- Raw, burned, or rotten fish can make you sick.
- Baked Mackerel Fillet gives the highest energy value.
- Boiled Mackerel Fillet gives the best hydration value.
- Eating small portions of raw Mackerel Fillet can reduce the poisoning risk, but cooking is safer.