Poison is an effect that can affect players, animals, cannibals, and mutants. The player can experience another type of poison, poisonous food which is different to poison.
Gameplay
The effect occurs when a player, animal, cannibal, or mutant is hit by poison arrow or hit by a poison upgraded weapon. It affects the player differently to how affects cannibals and mutants.
Effects on Players
The player will take damage over time, for about 30 seconds. During this time, each dot of damage will cause the player to flinch or be stunned. It is unknown if the damage differs between normal and hard. When a player is poisoned, they will also cause the player to become sick. It has a 100% chance of occuring when receiving a poison arrow, though it is unknown if a poison upgraded weapon will cause the same.
Due to these effects, if players are interesting in their own player vs player game, a poisoned weapon or arrow might be a good tactic.
The effect is not listed on the HUD, though may be listed in the stats page.
Effects on Animals, Cannibals and Mutants
When a creature is poisoned, it will appear with a green tint over it. Their movement speed and attack speed will be slowed by over 25%. This can make animals easier to hunt. This will make cannibals and mutants easier to kill or avoid.
Poisonous Food
Poisonous food refers to foods that will injure the player and have a chance of making them sick. These foods include:
Snowberries
Twinberries
Arm
Head
Amanita Mushroom
Jack Mushroom
Leg
Spoiled Fish Meat
Spoiled Meat
Spoiled Lizard Meat
Spoiled Oysters
Spoiled Rabbit Meat
Spoiled Small Meat
Gallery
Poisoned Armsy
Poisoned Cowman
Poisoned Dead Cannibals
Poisoned Female
Poisoned Leader Cannibal
Poisoned Masked Skinny
Poisoned Painted Cannibal
Poisoned Virginia
Update history
| Version | Changes |
|---|---|
| v0.70 | Poisoned weapons will now display a visual |
| v0.69b | Fixed missing arrow + jack mushroom = poison arrow recipe
Fixed weird visual on the held poisoned plane axe |
| v0.69 | You can now poison most weapons by combining them with poison berries, or poison mushrooms.
The list of possible recipe displayed while combining ingredients on the crafting mat now shows only distinct entries (ie: 3 recipes yield a poisoned plane axe, it will display “Poisoned Plane Axe” only once instead of 3 times) |
| v0.66 | You can now make poison arrows using poisoned mushrooms |
| v0.55 | Fixed poison arrow effects not being applied to enemies correctly |
| v0.42 | New poisoned effect: when shot with poisoned arrows enemy movement is slowed and damage output is reduced for a short time |
| v0.37 | Poison arrow can no longer poison player when shooting while sprinting forward |
| v0.36 | Fixed player not being able to climb ropes while affected by poison/cold/thirst etc |
| v0.33 | Poisoned arrows can now also infect players & animals ! Players can cure it with aloe vera |
| v0.33 | Added poison arrow bonus green looking material |
| v0.32 | New upgrade recipe: Arrows + 4 Twinberry = Poisoned arrows (can be batched) (Poison lasts longer but does smaller damage per tick than fire) |
| v0.08b | Poison will no longer take away armor, only health |
| v0.06 | Parry no longer affects burn/poison and other damage to player |