Cooking 5, Food poisoned and parasite risk 70%

[gmotagi]

Interloper. I've had cooking 5 for a while now. Just got food poisoning checked my health and parasite risk is at 70% 

What gives ???

Edited October 26, 2023 by gmotagi

[Leeanda]

Sounds like a bug to me..   whether it's just that one run or all I don't know and it'd take quite a while to test again..

[xanna]

Are you 100% sure it wasn't raw? 70% risk sounds like raw meat

[artmunki]

1 hour ago, xanna said:

Are you 100% sure it wasn't raw? 70% risk sounds like raw meat

That's the mistake I made last time I got food poisoning. Be careful when you're grabbing meat to munch in the dark.

[UTC-10]

70% is about right for intestinal parasites risk for consuming raw wolf or bear meat.  Food poisoning hitting right away also sounds right as food poisoning has no time delay at the time of consuming raw meat.  Level 5 cooking immunity to food poisoning and intestinal parasites applies to cooked food.  

Going through the radial menu, there would be a "do you want to eat this raw meat" warning message as applicable.  That was added because the difference between LMB (eat/ drink it now) and RMB (begin the place it mechanic) was too narrow and even pretty careful players could easily make a mistake.  It saved me a few times.  

Eating from inventory does not have a warning for the act is way more deliberate and if the character is not careful about what is clicked on (or double clicked) then they get the effects (and I have done this on an occasion or two).  

[James Hickok]

Yeah i will have to state the same. Done that quite a few times. You did eat raw meat. 

[Serenity]

Was it bear meat? That's a bit of an issue since cooked and rotten bear meat look very similar. Always make sure it says "cooked"

[gmotagi]

I think it was bear, so thats probably the  cause. Doh.