Eating fruits should boost immunity slightly.

[MarmaladeToast2 1]

As a result of the much harsher cold/flu/pneumonia in 1.26, it can be quite difficult to get out of the spawn town once your character catches a cold, as medical items are very rare and have been looted by other players. A solution could be to make eating fruits contribute to a character statistic that increases immunity temporarily. This is how it may be implemented:

• The bonus immunity statistic is added to the result from the current immunity calculation to give the new final value.
• Consuming fruits and possibly some other items can cause the bonus immunity statistic to increase slowly over the course of digestion (perhaps around 2.5/fruit)
• Simultaneously, the bonus immunity statistic decreases with a half-life of 5 minutes (decaying faster when it is higher) to prevent the statistic from going too high or for the effect to go for too long.

Multivitamins could also be re-implemented to use this statistic too, and would be more effective against colds than something like salmonella (which currently only needs one multivitamin to cure).

Edited October 24, 2024 by MarmaladeToast2

[RadistR 5]

There are rosehip fruits in the game. Rosehip is actually used as a folk antibiotic.

You can make it so in the game that for 1 berry eaten, immunity increases for 2 minutes, as from a 1 multivitamin tablet eaten.

[Habibabob 10]

On 10/24/2024 at 11:06 AM, RadistR said:

There are rosehip fruits in the game. Rosehip is actually used as a folk antibiotic.

You can make it so in the game that for 1 berry eaten, immunity increases for 2 minutes, as from a 1 multivitamin tablet eaten.

THERE ARE BERRIES????!!!

[MarmaladeToast2 1]

4 hours ago, Habibabob said:

THERE ARE BERRIES????!!!

They don't spawn on official servers.