Posted July 22, 2025 by The Grumpy GameDev
At times like these, I pause to reflect on my life choices.
Today, the feature worthy of an update and a dev log deals with eating raw food and the food poisoning you can get from it.
These are the games I make.
Crafting edible food has a lot of steps to it. For cooking grubs, you have to make a digging stick, which requires a hatchet, which requires a sharp rock, which requires a hammer, which requires... you see what I mean.
Even then, cooking something requires a camp fire.
So I am allow to eat raw grubs and raw fish, but the risk is food poisoning:
And what are the effects of food poisoning? Decreased health. In the raw foods that I allow eating, there is only a 50-50 chance of 1 food poisoning point, so the satiety gain may be "worth it".