Food Poisoning

**Food Poisoning** is an illness in *We Happy Few* caused by eating food stuffs that's gone rotten.

The player can view its effects in their Stats menu, this will help the player see what stage the food poisoning is at, and what actions they should take to cure it.

## Overview

### General

Upon eating something that's gone bad, the player will get food poisoning. Depending on the food they ate, as well as how much of it they ate, the player will get a certain stage of food poisoning.

While poisoned, the player's health reduces over time, with a higher reduction depending on the severity of the stage.

## Stages

### **Mild Poisoning**

The player's vision will get blurred while time slows down (similarly to Scotch) once or twice. Lasts until the effect goes away.

### **Serious Poisoning**

When the timer ends, the player will vomit periodically until the player's Hunger depletes.

### **Fatal Poisoning**

If the illness is not cured, the player will start blacking out and eventually die. Sick Up Tea can revert this back to **Serious Food Poisoning**.

## Treatment

To get rid of food poisoning, the player has two options.

### Sick Up Tea

Sick Up Tea is a special kind of beverage that causes the player to vomit immediately. While this gets rid of food poisoning, it's at the cost of making the player hungry right afterwards.

If the player is in Survival Mode, starvation can lead to death.

Sick Up Tea is not generally recommended to take unless the player has no other options.

### Neximide Pill

Neximide Pills are special kinds of drugs that gets rid of any and all food poisoning regardless of its stage, and without any side effects.

While it's not too rare to be found in the Garden District, lots of Neximides can be found in Wellie's houses.

## Foods

Items that can cause Food Poisoning include:

* Moldy Bread - Mild
* Odious MacLear Tea - Mild
* Strange Meat - Severe
* Rancid Stew - Severe
* Raw Meat - Mild
* Rotten Apple - Mild
* Rotten Carrot - Mild
* Rotten Mushroom - Mild
* Rotten Onion - Mild
* Rotten Potato - Mild
* Rotting Meat - Severe

## Trivia

* Many Wastrels in the Garden District endure Food Poisoning, mostly due to fresh food having gone rotten as soon as it hit the air.

## Old Content

**Food Poisoning** has been available since the 11219 build of *We Happy Few*, caused by eating suspicious food stuffs.

###  Overview

#### 11219

Upon eating something strange, such as Mysterious Meat, the player would contract food poisoning. At this point in time, food poisoning didn't have varying stages of severity, meaning the player would only go through the default stage. They'd lose 0.5% of their health every single second for 2 minutes, and after the 2 minutes had passed in-game, food poisoning would disappear on its own. Food poisoning did not affect the player's hunger or thirst.

To cure food poisoning, the player needed to consume Purple Pills.

#### 17956

Much like in Pre-Alpha build 11219, the player would contract either one of three stages of food poisoning, **Queasy**, **ill**, and **Deathly ill**. The player would feel queasy after eating small rotten food stuffs such as Rotten Carrots or Moldy Bread, and they'd feel ill after eating food such as rancid meat. If the player ate multiple rotten food stuffs, they'd become deathly ill.

Feeling queasy wouldn't do much harm to the player, their vision would go blurry every once in a while, but they wouldn't lose any health, hunger, or thirst. The effects would go away after 2 in-game minutes.

Feeling ill was significantly more harmful, as the player had about a minute to cure themselves of food poisoning before Arthur would start to throw up, losing hunger and thirst. If either of the two meters were depleted, the player would start to lose health. This would go on every once in a while, forcing the player to keep eating or drinking so as to keep them from dying. Feeling deathly ill had the exact same effects as just feeling ill, although the frequency of Arthur throwing up was increased. Being ill or deathly ill would remain until the player found a cure.

To cure food poisoning, the player needed to consume Purple Pills.