How do I get rid of food poisoning

[Entrails]

I haven't been able to figure it out. Just about my whole crew has it now even though I spend half my effort disinfecting.

[Thorin]

The simplest way is to not get it: Build washing basins asap next to the outhouse, then upgrade to lavatory and build shovers when researched. Also store food in fridge or sterile enviroment

If you want to save your current run, then do the same as first step, to limit the intoduction of new germs to the sytem. Then disinfect everything infected (over a few thousand germs) and compost the most infected food and seeds (this may couse food shortage).
If some of the dupes have lts of internal germs, you might need to micro them to avoid getting more germ and infecting the clean areas.

[MaebeKnot]

That is all great Thorin but what about mid/late game germ control? I'm in day 200+ and ran out of the starting clean water. No big suprise had to convert dirty water to clean. Had a seperate tank for the cleaned water but since the dirty has Food Poison it ended up in the second clean tank. The idea was to let the clean water sit in there and let the germs die naturally. Was way to slow process so I had the dups/containers drop bleach into the pool of water. Since chlorine in the air above the water doesn't help kill the germs in the water.

Didn't matter I had the stone in the water. Germs still died WAY to slow. Had to pump the germed cleaned water into my main clean water tank. The dups used this water to make food and now my food has food poisoning. I saw this for weeks in game. There is just no good way I can figure to kill germs in water. Not unless I heat my clean water to over 75 C.

50 million dollar question. How the hell does the Water Purifier NOT kill the germs in the water?! How is there not at least some water based germ killing solution other then major changes to water tempture.

[Zorlond]

I don't think you can get rid of it 100%. You just keep the germ population down to where your dups don't get sick. Which is accurate to RL, germs are very determined little buggers and our obsessive need to eradicate every one of them is just human arrogance. We're gonna lose that fight sooner or later, and lose badly.

[Thorin]

Option one: Use clean pulluted water, your cesspool is full of germs, but several other polluted water pools are free of them, use that to get water for your purifier. The ice biom has lots of frozen polluted water (and also frozen clean water), to get germ free water without the risk of gettin slimelung.

Option two: heat or cool the water, even better, if you can boil it than the cooling water will be clean without any watse of sand.

Optiom three: just as before, earch for the watr geyser and use it for clean watersource, have to deal with heat, and with slimelung if in the slime biome, but at least no foodgerms.

[Entrails]

I've got all the germs under control now, but my guys are still running around throwing up from food poisoning. I don't get it.

[Liy4b-Derg]

Has anyone tried to let water with germs touch Chlorine? My new save is currently just in Cycle 46 and I believe it will take a long time before I can experiment with Chlorine. It's an interesting gas to fight germs IMO.

[UnkindledThuum]

Clean water passively kills germs.... Slowly... Like watching paint dry.

The Chlorine meta is by far the best and most efficient method at the moment. You normally need 2 or 3 tanks and some janky automation to maximize CL exposure.

But since I'm not a meta slave... Here are some weird ways to do it.

Personally, I kill food poisoning germs with pressure.
Just hook the bathrooms to 1 of 2 airlock door storage spaces and alternate between the two with simple on off switches. Nothing janky, super simple. 20k pressure is a good target. If you're techy you can go full hands off. They're pretty easy to make, just Youtube it.

Or

Get technical and hook it into your Steam Turbine setup.
Benefits: It kills the germs and also gives you late game dirt. (set up a conveyor system out of steel and you're set)
Difficulty: High.
- You want to automate the heat and flow of the liquid so you don't drown or over pressurize the system.
- You also will need to figure a way of cooling the +125C water for consumption

Or

You can get spicy and make a tiered waterfall using airflow tiles similar to old sour gas boilers.
- Use airflow tiles to set up a 4 to 5 tier waterfall system and you should be set. Set it up like a checker board and have it cascade from tile to tile.
- Fill the room full of CL. 2 kg or greater.
- Sieve the water before sending it in.
Automation needed? None.
Is it overkill? Yes
Does it look cool? Yes.
Is it realistic for the tiny amount of germy water your dupes make? No.
Does it look cool? Yes.

[UnkindledThuum]

Originally posted by Entrails:

I've got all the germs under control now, but my guys are still running around throwing up from food poisoning. I don't get it.

If they're throwing up, it's not from the food poisoning. Food poisoning only causes them to use the bathrooms more often and take a slight debuf in efficiency. They're likely stressed out from over-leveling our outside events like popped eardrums.
Certain dupes have different debufs when they stress. Puking and crying are a couple of them.
I'm working on a design for the difficulty mods where there's almost no water. Collect that positive water source by purposefully stressing certain dupes out. XD

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by RavensReaper:

Originally posted by Entrails:

I've got all the germs under control now, but my guys are still running around throwing up from food poisoning. I don't get it.

If they're throwing up, it's not from the food poisoning. Food poisoning only causes them to use the bathrooms more often and take a slight debuf in efficiency. They're likely stressed out from over-leveling our outside events like popped eardrums.
Certain dupes have different debufs when they stress. Puking and crying are a couple of them.
I'm working on a design for the difficulty mods where there's almost no water. Collect that positive water source by purposefully stressing certain dupes out. XD

You're responding to a 4-year-old post. Back then it DID cause vomiting.

[Crusader]

Grill your food, and check your fridge for stale or food poison, click on them for compose. Also have Doctor to make food poison pills for your dupes.