Poisoned food / food that has gone bad

[mnotme 0]

Why implement something like this? Well...food get bad and who knows how long that can of beans have been laying around. It would add a little bit of realism and could also "encourage" people to hunt and cook their own food instead of loot/kill for it.

The effect: Either the same as bleeding (but much slower) or that you simply get dehydrated really fast and need to drink lots of water.

The twist: Only affects food that has been looted from a corpse - either a dead zombie of from a murder victim. ;)

[frodevil 15]

The point of canned food is that it doesn't go bad at all. At least not for a very, very, very long time (avg of 10 years for most canned foods).

[mnotme 0]

The point of canned food is that it doesn't go bad at all. At least not for a very' date=' very, very long time (avg of 10 years for most canned foods).

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Canned food generally have a shelf life of 1-2 years (high acid fruits and veggies) or 3-5 years (meats and fish). So yes - canned food will go bad especially if the can is dented or haven't been stored properly (too high/low temperature).

And do we really know for how long the Day Z apocalypse have been going on? A year? 10 years?

[Tomez 1]

Maybe the canned food should not go bad, because they are canned for that purpose.. but perhaps the cooked meat should go bad after a few days in the backpack or pocket..