Potatoes, once peeled, can be eaten raw without penalty.
Survivors should be punished for eating raw potato, and rewarded for baking or boiling them, just like in real life.
Raw potatoes, once eaten, should cause a mild chemical poisoning and vomiting much like the unknown food can.
Description
Description
Details
Details
- Severity
- Tweak
- Resolution
- Open
- Reproducibility
- Always
- Operating System
- Windows 7
- Category
- Feature Request
Steps To Reproduce
- Find or grow potatoes
- Peel the potato
- Eat the potato raw
- Experience no ill-effects
(Try this in real life. I double-dog dare you)
Additional Information
DayZ is known & beloved for its realism and attention to detail.
This is likely not a bug or intentional gameplay feature, but rather an oversight of detail.
It has been a lingering issue that bothers me, that raw potatoes are edible, though we all know this is not true in real life.
Potatoes stand out from the other player-grown-crops in that they take longer to grow, yet never rot.
This itself is balanced and rewarding for anyone who maintains a base or team with needs for food.
However, to maintain realism, a possible solution to the edibility of raw potato is to make it function similar to the unknown food can and cause vomiting, unless cooked.
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Should be able to cook potatoes in fires/ovens IN their skins. As any kid who has ever camped out knows you can just chuck them in the campfire.
Raw potato is edible and in small quantities (the quantities likely to be consumed in dayz) is unlikely to cause any issues unless green/sprouting (which doesn't happen in game anyway). There can even be benefits to eating raw for gut health along with increased vitamin C. Chances of food poisoning roughly the same as eating any fruit/veg raw, such as dayz fave pumpkin.
Unknown canned food should be no more likely to harm you than labelled food, and once open it should be quite obvious what it is anyway. Dog food, yum ;)
Although while we're on the subject why are we eating powdered milk instead of simply adding it to water...?