// dayz disease
Food poisoning
Rotten or burnt food, raw fish, long-opened cans, bloody hands or hot-spring water.
Heals by itself
Immune system > 35 %
With a weaker one a small rest stays until it recovers.
Lasts
~5–7 min
From the worst case, once the bad food is out of your stomach.
Cure
Charcoal
Speeds up the fading from the first second.
Food poisoning is poison from bad food in your body; the game counts it as agents, up to 800. It grows as long as bad food is in your stomach — the bigger its share, the faster — and every vomit throws out 60 % of it. Once 40 or fewer are left the rest fades within ~2 min, but only while your immune system is above ~35 %.
Stages
How the disease runs in the game, stage by stage: when it starts, what it does, and whether it still heals.
Food poisoning
heals by itselffrom 1 agent (of 800)
Symptoms
- Vomiting
- Sick icon in the status bar
Above 40 agents you vomit every ~1–2.5 min, more often the more poison you have. Each vomit removes 60 % of it and costs 70 water and 55 food. No fever, no pain; the sick icon shows from the first vomit.
Once nothing bad is left in your stomach, vomiting brings it down to 40 or fewer, and the rest is gone within ~2 min — with an immune system above ~35 %. With a weaker one the last bit stays, without symptoms, until your immune system recovers.
How to get rid of it
Stop eating what made you sick and wait; with a weak immune system eat, drink and heal first. Charcoal tablets make it fade faster.
How to avoid it
Never eat rotten or burnt food, cook fish, and clean your hands after gutting animals.
Good to know
- As long as the bad food is still in your stomach, the poisoning keeps growing, however strong your immune system is.
- Hot-spring water and eating or drinking with bloody hands cause it too.
Not sure it is this?
The doctor asks what you notice on your character and names the disease and its stage.