What happens if you loot everything in State of Decay? Do you just slowly watch everyone die, or is there some sort of regeneration?

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Once a location has been fully looted it will be marked with an 'ⓧ' symbol. Screenshot:

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• If an outpost is established at a location where some resources remain (the Ammo/ Food/ Fuel/ Material/ Medicine icon depicted on the map once the building is fully searched), that outpost will automatically produce a small amount of that resource per (real-time) day, reducing the daily consumption (known as the Resource Cache bonus). It will continually give you resource benefits as long as the outpost is up.
• If an empty building is selected as an outpost (or its resource depleted), the outpost icon becomes a Fort icon (similar to Enclave icon, but has the color green)

^{- State of Decay Wiki on Outposts}
So try not fully looting a location if you want to make it give a Resource Cache bonus. Otherwise, the only way a fully looted location will "regenerate" resources is when you ask Lily in the Radio Room to 'Make a Radio Call looking for resources' (Survey Support), and when the result of that call leads to a fully looted location. In that case, that location will regenerate whatever resource you made a radio call for.

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My understanding is that you cannot run out, because you can radio asking for supplies, and the requested supplies will spawn on the map.

• When your base runs out of Food, survivors will fight over the remaining food, lowering morale. Hungry or starving survivors will lose max health and/or stamina. Eventually some will run away (usually with part of your meager remaining supply).
• Materials: Occasionally the event "need to fix the wall" pops up, taking 5-15 materials off your supply. If you don't have enough material then Morale will drop.
• Fuel: No known effect
• Medicine: Obviously sick and injured people can't heal without medicine.
• Ammo (this one's my guess): People will not feel unsafe and eventually leave.

Finally, the Radio Command option does not "Spawn" resources. It only points to the places that you didn't search or didn't loot.

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