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[Haspen]

If I recall correctly, boiled Heather cleans poison.

I don't recall any raw herb doing that, though.

[Kaitol]

If you were a starving Finnish peasant, would you eat mushrooms you came across?

[BigD145]

Starving or starving and in extreme pain from mushrooms? Hmmm. Tough choice.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

from what i've read, eating mushrooms only recently became widespread across the world, and most ancient cultures, including scandinavian ones, didn't traditionally regard any mushroom as edible. they'd probably eat tree bark before they tried to eat any mushroom

[varnish]

Nah, there are records of a lot of ancient people eating mushrooms. The Chinese have done it, the Romans did it. I mean, it's not just random mushrooms that can kill you, there are plenty of other edible looking plants out there that can do the same. Reflected in the game, too, I think.

[Azated]

To be honest, I'd rather pry up a rotten log and chomp on whatever squirmy critters I find there before eating any fruit or berry. My general thought is that unless someone ate that berry last week and isn't in crippling pain, gather them all and make a stew. Otherwise, hand-feed them to cows for fodder and hope the meat isn't poisoned when you slaughter them for a snack.

[PanH]

Spoiled food is way better than unknown plants, for that it won't kill you. Never eat an unknow plant (especially mushrooms). IMO, it's even better to starve for a few days than eating plants.

[BigD145]

Even mushroom experts of 40 years get it wrong and end up killing themselves.

[Duuvian]

The game's just rubbing it in now. Finally get my Smokeshed/cabin finished as August rolls around, and I go hunting around for game to smoke and get a stag. Whose fine fur suddenly turns harsh at the second to last tanning step, so all its good for now is churning out inferior cords for arrows and smoking the meat. Then I go out on a hunting trip and find nothing for a week, and I eat a few mushrooms to put off starvation. And get deadly poisoning. Now I can take that, I knew the risks eating random mushrooms and its bad luck and all. But then I IMMEDIATELY find a stag, and oneshot it with an arrow to the eye. So I'm like. Shit. Now I'm basically just running around eating every random herb hoping one can get me through deadly poisoning or that I learn an anti-poisoning ritual. Nope. I finally die next to the corpse of the last stag I brought down.

This game really has a knack for rubbing it in.

Try to find a sage or a shaman in a village next time. They will treat you. I had minor poisoning once from eating the wrong type of grass and a shaman fixed it right up. I don't know if it would save you from deadly poisoning, though I imagine it's better than nothing.

from what i've read, eating mushrooms only recently became widespread across the world, and most ancient cultures, including scandinavian ones, didn't traditionally regard any mushroom as edible. they'd probably eat tree bark before they tried to eat any mushroom

Some people believe psychadelic mushrooms were eaten on purpose by ancient humans, and that it may even have influenced human evolution by changing the thinking or behaviour of certain individuals in a reproductive-ly or societally helpful way:

http://www.archania.org/index.php?page=mushrooms_and_evolution

Please note this is only the first result I clicked on when searching google for psychadelic mushrooms on human evolution and I only skimmed over it. I don't ascribe to the beliefs in that page but it's interesting to ponder at least and to me seems at least theoretically possible.

[Skyrunner]

Well, eating mushrooms has been a key part of Chinese and Korean culture for a long time. :O

[Haspen]

That's cuz you have 3 kinds of mushrooms there

[jester]

Well, eating mushrooms has been a key part of Chinese and Korean culture for a long time. :O

Yah, here is australia we have had more than a few chinese almost kill themselves eating the mushrooms we have growing about the place.  We do get edible ones and trippy ones growing about the place, but its australia, 90% of stuff is deadly poisonous around here

[Sharp]

but its australia, 90% of stuff is trying to kill you

FIFY

[Askot Bokbondeler]

deadly mushrooms is one thing where the rest of the world caught up with australia

[Haspen]

Ehhh...

Anga Driikinainen, after preparing herself for winter, got stabbed in the back by unfortunately positioned, randomly spawned Njerpez warrior.

Goddamit.