Risk of Intestinal Parasites is an Affliction caused by consuming raw or cooked carnivore meat: Wolves, Timberwolves, Cougars, and Bears.
It is only present when playing the following game modes:
- Survival Mode
- Stalker
- Interloper
- Misery
- Can be enabled in Custom
- It is only active in Wintermute if playing on the Hardened Survivor difficulty.
- The Affliction is also present in the Challenge As The Dead Sleep.
Risk[]
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Risk for Intestinal Parasites does not fill up as a meter to 100%, unlike many other Afflictions. Instead, the Affliction has a chance of being contracted 24 hours after the first piece of carnivore meat was consumed. All carnivore meat (ex. Bear or Wolf meat) has the same chance of causing parasites, regardless of type, condition, or weight. Cooked meat is not safe from Intestinal Parasites (until Level 5 Cooking Skill), and raw meat is never safe (having an innate +75% chance and almost always giving Food Poisoning).
Only the following pieces of meat, cooked or raw, contribute to Risk of Intestinal Parasites when eaten:
Bear Meat (Raw)/
Bear Meat (Cooked)
Cougar Meat (Raw)/
Cougar Meat (Cooked)- Wolf Meat (Raw)/ Wolf Meat (Cooked)
- Stalker's Pie[1]
- ↑ Cooking Level 5 removes Parasites Risk, but is also required to make Stalker's Pie. Sour Stomach will remove the Level 5 Cooking benefit when playing on Misery however, giving the player Risk of Intestinal Parasites when eating Stalker's Pie.
Risk of Intestinal Parasites Mechanics[]
The mechanics Risk of Intestinal Parasites are different than other Afflictions risks:
- After consuming a single piece of predator meat, the Affliction "Risk of Intestinal Parasites" will appear accompanied by a meter.
- The meter will fill up for every piece of predator meat consumed from that point on, at a rate of +1% for the first piece, +3% for the second piece, and +5% for each subsequent piece.
- Eating uncooked raw predator meat will always add +75% to the Risk meter.
- After one full in-game day (24hrs) from eating the first piece of infected meat, the game rolls to see if you get the full affliction. The chance of being Afflicted occurs based how full your Intestinal Parasites Risk meter is. (i.e. 4% risk on the meter = 4% chance of getting Parasites after 24hrs). If you do not get Intestinal Parasites, the risk is cleared until more meat is eaten.
- If a survivor continues to eat infected meat, they will inevitably develop Intestinal Parasites, as the game will hard roll the Affliction after 6-9 Risk of Intestinal Parasites pass, even if the risk percentage is always at 1%.
Strategy[]
Since Risk of Intestinal Parasites is only present before Level 5 Cooking Skill, it is most beneficial to eat entire single servings rather than lots of small servings before the Risk appears. Reaching Cooking Level 5 will remove any future Risk of Intestinal Parasites upon eating predator meat (Reaching Level 5 in Cooking does not remove preexisting risk of developing parasites, a parasite affliction contracted previously, or parasite risk from eating raw predator meat).
Misery and Sour Stomach[]
When playing on Misery, the Sour Stomach Affliction removes the immunity from Intestinal Parasites that Level 5 Cooking provides, so predator meat will become a threat again after a certain amount of in-game days pass.
- Stalker's Pie will now give Risk of Intestinal Parasites, despite needing to be cooked at Level 5 which formally removes Parasites Risk.
- The rate at which the Risk of Intestinal Parasites meter is filled after consuming predator meat also changes with Sour Stomach; by an increased factor of 1.5
- One piece now gives gives 1% meter risk, two pieces 6%, three pieces 13%, and so on.
Trivia[]
- Despite all the types of fish caught from Ice Fishing being predatory, none grant Intestinal Parasites Risk when eaten (raw or cooked).
Game History[]
- Added to game in Tireless Menace Update.
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