Dolina Farmstead

*Multiple farmsteads are located in the general Dolina area. We can get Food supplies here, perhaps even some basic equipment. Watch out for the infected farmers!*

The Dolina Farmstead location is one of the first 2 locations the player has access to once they have completed the tutorial. It is a good location to gather more food for future use and lets the player have access to the most basic equipment. It has Walkers, civilian zombies, wolves and chickens.

## Purpose

The Dolina farmstead spawns a good amount of food and contains starting equipment for the starting player. Food can be found almost anywhere in the farm location. The player should expect to gather 10-15 food in one raid without skinning the chickens or wolves. Chickens can be skinned for extra food but this is not recommended due to high durability used when skinning an animal. The player should spend their time to loot as much of the map as possible in order to gain the maximum amount of food and possibly find basic equipment to gear themselves up. The dress and farmer's outfit can be found either as ground loot or in the brown chest which is crucial in giving starting players access to greater carrying weight and armour. The player can also find both a burlap sack and rope to craft an improvised backpack to further improve their carry weight. While players can still obtain some materials like lumber from the farmstead, it should not be the players' main method to get large number of materials. However, it is easier to clear compared to the Forest outskirts due to enemies being spread out over a larger sized-map.

## Points of Interest

These parts of the map will either frequently or always spawn in every raid. All of these parts of the map will contain loot spawns and/or the main chest. Some of them are unique with the specific location while others are shared within similar types of locations.

### Berries

The Dolina farmstead contains Cranberries and Cloudberries, making the beginner experience simpler as cranberries are an easy source of food and cloudberries for regenerating health. They can also be saved at the end of the raid for storage.

## Loot

### Chest loot

The brown chest generally contain one of these 5 variations of loot: 4x pieces of food, 2x materials, 2x pieces of equipment, a meat cleaver + 1x chicken meat, or 1x burlap sack + 1x food.

Chest Loot
 Tomato

### Ground loot

The ground loot has a similar loot pool as the chest loot.

Ground Loot
 Tomato
 Zucchini
 Pepper
 Pipsi

### Cars

There are only Civilian cars that spawn on the roads of Dolina farmstead. They contain some loot that can provide a moderate source for materials in the early game. They are also a good source of oil filters for suppressing the early game pistols, SG5 and M4. Sometimes, these cars can spawn energy drinks which can be quite useful to perform high-risk maneuvers around large groups of enemies.

## Enemies

### Walkers

Walkers are easily dealt with by either using a kitchen knife to backstab them or by luring them away with your faster movement speed. Should a group of Walkers chase you, you can simply outrun them or fight them one by one. Walkers generally pose little to no threat due to their slow movement speed and low damage. You usually find these infected easily killed by a singular wolf as the wolf inflicts damage faster. They can inflict 1 point of infection but this can be eliminated by keeping your food level at 80% or above.

### Civilian zombies

Civilian zombies pose a significantly higher threat as if you alert more of them while trying to run away from one, you can easily alert more of them, which can end your raid quickly. They run slightly as the player which makes outrunning them difficult. When you have alerted a Civilian zombie, it is advised to finish them immediately to prevent further risk of alerting more running zombies which poses an even greater risk to a starting player. If you have taken any form of damage from these zombies, eat cloudberries (yellow berries) to heal 5 HP each. Civilian zombies can inflict 1 point of infection but this can be eliminated by keeping your food level at 80% or above.

### Wolves

Wolves pose just as much threat as a Civilian zombies but the difference is that they can be lured to attack infecteds instead. This allows you to be able to have a way to deal with a wolf without having to fight it directly. However, wolves can be found in larger groups. In this case, lure them to fight them one by one as if they were lured to fight an infected, the infected can be killed quickly and you will still face a great threat to your survival of the raid. Wolves can be skinned for wolf meat for 2 food which can be useful if you want to sacrifice a relatively significant amount of durability of the kitchen knife in doing so.

## Recommended equipment

Minimally bring a melee weapon to the raid. You should bring a kitchen knife and 1 bandage without the IJ-70 if this is your first raid. you have limited carry weight and the main purpose is to loot food and basic equipment. Once you have looted a piece of headgear and clothing, equip them immediately and future raids to improve your survivability of a raid as they would either increase your armour by 1, or increase carry weight for more food or equipment.