Where to find rotten flesh in 7 Days to Die Alpha 18?
Ever since Alpha 18, gardening hoes have been removed and farming now requires the building of farm plots. One requirement to craft them is rotten flesh.
Now it should not be too hard to find rotten flesh in a game where the vast majority of enemies are rotting people, but I can't find a way to gain rotten flesh from dead zombies.
How can I reliably find rotten flesh?
I've found 3 reliable sources:
- Killing and skinning zombified animals with a knife
- Attacking the animal gore ("rib cages") you find on roads
- Destroying body bags
The following may be a spoiler, but there is one location which contains a high amount of rotten flesh.
If you travel east from the pine forest trader, you'll come to a crossroads. Turn south in the small town past the pawn shop, then east again and follow the dirt road. Once you hit the next larger street, turn north and you will find Carl's Corn and Bob's Boars. This area has a lot of decaying corpses around, as well as other loot.
This area also contains a secret area, with more corpses. The high amount of dead bodies could be an indicator as to what you may expect there.
Keep in mind that the game resets a location if you activate a quest related to that location (e.g. a fetch quest, etc.), which allows you to loot the location again before the reset timer expired.
The only reliable method I've found so far is from butchering zombified animals (birds, dogs, bears, etc). Human zombies do not appear to give any flesh.
It can also be found randomly in containers, but I haven't noticed whether any particular type is more likely to contain it.