Food Poisoning!
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".

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TOWD
A Terminal Based Starvation Simulator
| Status | In development |
| Author | The Grumpy GameDev |
| Genre | Simulation |
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- Fully Functional Web BuildJul 20, 2025
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- There's a Stats Screen!Jul 06, 2025
- Web Version Canceled, but Map Screen!Jul 05, 2025
- I shipped the web versionJun 29, 2025
- Add Fuel, and all Recipes become VerbsJun 27, 2025
- Infrastructure ChangesJun 24, 2025
- Knapping Skill and Quality of Life ImprovementsJun 21, 2025
- Crafting Recipe Quality of LifeJun 20, 2025
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The thing that sticks out in my mind about the times I have had Food Poisoning, is the way I... Expelled... the Food that poisoned me, plus everything else I had _EVER_ eaten, and then some.
Logically, shouldn't the process of losing Food Poisoning points cost at least some Satiety?