Pollock Fillet
Pollock Fillet is a fish meat food item in DayZ obtained by fishing for a Pollock and gutting it with a Knife. Raw Pollock Fillet takes 3 inventory slots, weighs 350 g, provides 100 kcal and 200 mL of water, but eating it raw can cause poisoning.
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Pollock Fillet is a marine fish meat food item in DayZ obtained from a Pollock. After catching a Pollock, you can gut it with a Knife to get Pollock Fillets. Pollock Fillets can be eaten raw, baked, boiled, dried, burned, or rotten, but raw, burned, and rotten fish can make you sick. Cooking Pollock 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 pollock meat, mild tasting marine fish. It's an excellent dish once properly prepared.”
Main Uses
- Eat as a marine 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 Pollock
- Avoid eating raw, burned, or rotten Pollock Fillet
How to use this item
Eat Pollock Fillet safely
Pollock Fillet should be cooked before eating because raw fish can cause poisoning.
- Catch a Pollock while fishing.
- Gut the Pollock with a Knife to obtain Pollock Fillets.
- Do not eat the fillet raw unless you are desperate.
- Cook it into baked, boiled, or dried Pollock Fillet.
- Avoid burned or rotten Pollock Fillet because it can make you sick.
Prepare Pollock Fillet
Pollock Fillet is made by catching a Pollock and gutting it with a Knife.
- Catch a Pollock using fishing gear.
- Place the Pollock in your inventory or hands.
- Use a Knife to gut the Pollock.
- Collect the Pollock Fillets.
- Cook the fillets before eating for safer food.
Cook Pollock Fillet
Pollock Fillet can be cooked for better nutrition and safer eating.
- Prepare a Fireplace, stove, or cooking setup.
- Place the Pollock 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 Pollock Fillet
- Catch a Pollock while fishing.
- Gut the Pollock with a Knife.
- Collect Pollock Fillet from the gutted fish.
- Loot players carrying fish or cooked food.
Spawn info
- • Pollock Fillet is obtained from a Pollock.
- • A Knife is used to gut the Pollock.
- • It is a Food and Drink item under Meats.
- • Raw Pollock Fillet provides 100 kcal.
- • Raw Pollock Fillet provides 200 mL of water.
- • Raw Pollock Fillet has 2500 mL stomach volume.
- • It takes 3 inventory slots.
- • It weighs 350 g.
- • Eating raw Pollock 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 Pollock Fillet provides 100 kcal and 200 mL of water.
- • Baked Pollock Fillet provides 750 kcal and 120 mL of water.
- • Boiled Pollock Fillet provides 650 kcal and 320 mL of water.
- • Dried Pollock Fillet provides 575 kcal and 40 mL of water.
- • Burned Pollock Fillet provides 150 kcal and 0 mL of water.
- • Rotten Pollock Fillet provides 50 kcal and 80 mL of water.
- • Eating raw Pollock Fillet can cause poisoning.
- • Burned or rotten fish can make you sick.
- • Pollock Fillet is obtained by gutting a Pollock with a Knife.
Important notes
- Pollock Fillet is obtained from a Pollock.
- You need a Knife to gut the Pollock.
- Raw Pollock Fillet provides 100 kcal.
- Raw Pollock Fillet provides 200 mL of water.
- Raw Pollock Fillet has 2500 mL stomach volume.
- It takes 3 inventory slots.
- It weighs 350 g.
- It is categorized as Food and Drink > Meats.
- Eating raw Pollock Fillet can cause poisoning.
- Burned or rotten fish can make you sick.
- Baked Pollock Fillet gives the highest energy value.
- Boiled Pollock Fillet gives the best hydration value.
- Eating small portions of raw Pollock Fillet can reduce the poisoning risk, but cooking is safer.