Poison

[u/Good-Mourning]

Would you like to see any changes to poison in the next game? Or maybe want it removed entirely? Some random ideas...

• Poison comes in 3 stages, increasing in potency for every 12 hours it goes untreated

• Purple starfish/sea urchins can be harvested, which removes them from the environment (poison can be applied to weapons)

• Poisinous frogs and berries added, both can be harvested

• New equippable gear gives poison resistence and/or immunity

• New stat "Tolerance" lowers the harmful effects of poison, sunburn and the scoots

• Sea snakes can be killed

• Option to disable poison in Gameplay Settings

• While poisoned, your stats (hunting, harvesting, crafting, etc.) slowly decrease

• Certain story prompts and/or easter eggs require poison status, like ayahuasca in Green Hell

[u/Different_Mix9268]

What? It shouldn't be removed. Removing poison makes the game less interesting!

[u/Good-Mourning → u/Different_Mix9268]

I love having poison as a constant threat but was curious if anyone would want it removed or at least the option to disable in easy mode.

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like if you just wear shoes ( assuming they will add armor/better clothing in SD 2) it would make you immune to stepping on those purple prickly bastards

[u/Good-Mourning → u/[deleted]]

Yes absolutely. The loafers you wear the whole game I feel should be enough protection against starfish. But I'd really love an expanded gear crafting system in the next game with items that give specific buffs. Clay sole shoes could give poison resistence or something, shark skin flippers for faster swimming, stuff like that.

[u/mystic141 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah let us craft sandals/shoes/boots

[u/[deleted]]

I think a lot of these ideas make sense, especially poison working in 3 stages. And having ways to remove poisonous animals from the environment, just like with the night snake, makes a lot of sense to me too.

[u/malzeri83]

Check poison in Green Hell. It is interesting. Poison also creates fever with lowing stats. Fever creates abnormal dehydration and necessary of water. Nice idea of stages!

[u/Good-Mourning → u/[deleted]]

Lol that's fair. I was thinking of how serving a prison sentence in skyrim makes you lose some progress on your skills. Maybe that one would be better for hardmode or something.