Surviving and Clearing Severe Food Poisoning

Handling Rotten Flesh and Severe Debuffs

Eating uncooked items during combat or night travel can quickly cripple your character. Depending on the food type, raw rations can apply Slowness, Weakness, Nausea, Mining Fatigue, Blindness, or Poison. Rotten Flesh and similar items carry the most severe penalties: unless you get really lucky and resist the effects, eating zombie flesh can inflict Blindness or Poison and make a dangerous fight much worse.

Recovering Safely from Food Poisoning

If you accidentally eat raw food or are forced to eat Rotten Flesh in an emergency, use these steps to survive the penalties:

1. Drink a Milk Bucket: Milk a cow with an iron bucket and keep it on your hotbar during risky expeditions. Drinking milk immediately removes all active status effects, clearing stacked Slowness, Mining Fatigue, Weakness, Nausea, Blindness, and Poison at once.

2. Wall yourself in: Without milk, Blindness, Nausea, and Slowness make escaping mobs difficult. Place blocks around yourself and light the space with a torch instead of trying to dig away, especially if Mining Fatigue is slowing your pickaxe.

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