Food Poisoning

[Aviator]

Does food poisoning from cooked wolf meat no longer exist? I had a break from TLD since March and i'm confused. I eat several pieces of cooked wolf meat and no food poisoning for me.

[ManicManiac]

@Aviator

Yes, it's still a risk.

If you have Cooking - Level 5 then you do have the following benefit: "Never get Parasites or Food poisoning from cooked food. Also retroactive, meaning carnivore meat cooked before level 5 will also carry no risk of Parasites or Food poisoning."

Apart from that:
Like most other "risk" factors in the game, contracting food poisoning is pseudorandomly determined based on a probability.  The probability is also linked to the food item's condition.  So, even if a food item is at really low condition, you'll notice that the food poisoning risk is never 100%, therefore if one is extremely lucky... they could eat several low condition food items without contracting food poisoning.    *It's all in the hands of the RNG.*  

For your specific example of Cooked Wolf Meat

As shown here (though admittedly I can't vouch for how accurate the site's information is...) even if we were to eat RAW wolf meat that was ruined, there is still a 5% chance that we'd not contract food poisoning.

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Now Intestinal Parasites, on the other hand, is a little bit different.  I'm not going to explicitly explain it here because that wasn't the topic of discussion, however I did link to the Fandom Wiki page for any one interested.

 

Edited September 21, 2020 by ManicManiac

[Aviator]

@ManicManiac

Thank you a lot for your answer. 

You are right, I'm at lvl 5 cooking. That is the reason I don't get food poisoning.

 

Thank you

Edited September 22, 2020 by Aviator