Look before you eat

[whatsmynameagain 31]

How about contaminating food with zed blood? It would give whoever ate the infection. If you want to even the odds, maybe you can find a vaccine that prevents the last of humanity from turning. Though it would be extremely hard to find. You could also poison food with cyanide. Since, they're really isn't a use for it anymore, you might as well use weed killer and bug spray to poison the last of us. It would make you think before finding a random piece of meat on the ground and eating it. Don't worry about being poisoned too much because the poisoning materials are incredibly hard to find.

[Target Practice (DayZ) 1335]

So. Hypothetically, how would someone tell that said item of food is poisoned?

What purpose would this serve? What would the in-game reason be for doing it?

What exactly would the 'poisons' do?

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

...How many times does it have to be said that all the survivors are immune to the zombie virus. We're going to have to worry about a shit ton of other diseases in Standalone, and I believe that contaminating food and water sources will be a mechanic in SA. And honestly if you eat a random piece of meat you find on the floor, you probably deserve to die. And honestly poisons aren't that hard to find, you know the poison ricen? Comes from the castor bean plant. Couple years ago it grew EVERYWHERE and in mass. The bean alone is somewhat deadly (there's some kind of scale in place to show how many beans it takes to kill certain animals, mice=1 bean, cats =2 beans, ect) and from my understanding its actually fairly simply to refine it into the poison. Too difficult? Just look under your sink for a shit ton of ready made poisons.

[enforcer1975 1111]

I wonder why the first though people have is to contaminate food and water to grief others. In the end they have to use it, too and hopefully forgot that they just shat where they are eating then. Only way to make people think twice is to connect all water sources of every server, as soon as someone poisons it he can't just go to another server and be "safe", it's "one world" so it should affect everybody. If the servers could handle 1000 players 999 wouldn't even think of doing that.

[taco241 393]

This is not a good idea. Firstly, any food one finds in a survival situation will be sealed. In cans or vacuum packed bags.

You won't find a turkey dinner sitting on a table inside a house.

And what kind of asshole poisons food and just leaves it there for others to consume when they come across it at some random time?

Food should be precious enough for you to hold on to for eating yourself.

This just seems like griefing.

[enforcer1975 1111]

And what kind of asshole poisons food and just leaves it there for others to consume when they come across it at some random time?

Food should be precious enough for you to hold on to for eating yourself.

This just seems like griefing.

Trust me there are enough idiots who would do that even if that would be their last ration. If food spoils that's no problem anyway since nobody would think of eating it anyway.

[Jars (DayZ) 63]

I don't know about poisoning , but meat should spoil pretty quickly ( maybe a few hours tops ) , making it impossible to stock pile cooked meats .

This would make people hunt more on the fly , and give much greater value to canned and packet goods .

[LancerG2 369]

And what kind of asshole poisons food and just leaves it there for others to consume when they come across it at some random time?

Me.

[harley001 315]

Yeah I don't encourage ideals that support people just killing players for the sake of killing them.

Little do people know that there is actually a high effective way of killing someone for their stuff!

Step 1. Get a gun.

Step 2. Point gun at someone.

step 3. Pull trigger couple times until they stop moving.

I find this method works quite well!