Sanity Guide

[BURIN]

referring to insanity, the game asked to feed on something that adds more insanity, is anybody what kind of food it is?

[BURIN]

at that moment I fed on some industrialized foods that I found on an abandoned deck, this increased some sanity

[ijah]

mushroom soup for sanity

[blazha]

Originally posted by BURIN:

at that moment I fed on some industrialized foods that I found on an abandoned deck, this increased some sanity

Standing by the fire gives +1 sanity every minute or 2
Painkillers +3
Juice and chips +5
Sleeping without any side effects +3
Thats what i noticed so far. Leeches are the biggest problem you have to check and remove them every 2 minutes, really kills the game for me. Im on day 3 on max sanity, never seen that ghosts everybody is taking about.

[BURIN]

heat of the bonfire +1, piranha fish +5

[oi__io]

Some of the mushroom (yellow or orange?) add sanity when consumed. Eating cooked meat also add sanity depending on the type of meat (snake/mouse/bird/tapir).

[blazha]

I guess soups add sanity too, have to check.

[ᗷᑌᒪᗩᗰᗩTᗩRI]

Cooked meat gives you +5 sanity.

Except for the disgusting stuff: larvae and maggots cooked will instead decrease your sanity still by -2 (raw by -5).

Sitting close by a small fire (get close enough) gives you up to +2 sanity every few minutes. For just sitting there!

Smoked meat gives only +4 and dried meat only +3 sanity. If it's about sanity: cooked meat. If it's about proteins/nutrition: always prefer soups.

Certain meat soups give +5 sanity as well and more protein than cooked meat (in return for a little less fats) but more importantly: soups have no decay timer, thus never spoil!

No sanity increase from soups from rattlesnake, mice, snail, bones, prawns, angelfish, discus fish and red crabs. The only fish soups that increase sanity are piranha, stingray and Black Arowana fish soups.

Monstera Deliciosa Fruit gives you +3 sanity. And has no decay timer either! Hence keep it in your backpack as long as you don't absolutely need it. It's like a +3 sanity medicine. Which also gives you +25 carbs (just like bananas), +15 proteins and +10 energy (unlike bananas).

Sleeping in beds gives you +3 sanity too, sleeping on the ground, however, will reduce your sanity!

For players who keep wondering why they get insane over time though they'd allegedly do nothing wrong:

♦ Worms - most likely caught from sleeping on the ground, and yes, sleeping in a shelter and still having no bed still means sleeping on the ground. The ground hasn't changed just because there's a roof of palm leafs above it. Not even beds low to the ground are safe enough.You wouldn't want to sleep in the dirt or in a bed of leafs in real life because... you'd fear getting eaten by worms, leeches, spiders, snakes and stuff, right? :D So, just try not to do this in this game either.

♦ Leeches - examine your body whenever the 'magnifier' icon appears over your health bar, remove all leeches, for each reduces your sanity by -1!

♦ Parasites - you probably drank unsafe or even dirty water or you ate raw meat.

Not a problem per se as long as you have some cup mushrooms at hand (the reddish unknown shrooms) which you can eat right after you caught a parasite or even better, the blue shrooms which provide -2 parasites per each (cup mushrooms -1). If you have got some of them, you can drink any water. Slowly. Hand by hand. Wait and see the reaction if you caught a parasite or not. If not, keep drinking (unsafe water). If you caught one or two or more parasites, eat a cup mushrooms for -1 or a blue unknown mushroom for -2 parasites. And so on and so forth...

♦ Rash - always have bandages at hand, untreated rashes can drive you insane. If you don't have bandages, eat cooked, meat, sleep, sit by a small fire, eat Brazil Nuts (+2 sanity), eat a Monstera Deliciosa Fruit etc. to fight the loss of sanity.

Side note: Don't confuse Monstera Deliciosa Fruit with its Monstera Deliciosa Flower! - don't collect the latter, you can't eat it anyway, even cooked it gives you only 15 carbs plus a nice food poisoning. You gotta leave it there, remember where you saw it, and come back later to see if it's ripened to its Monstera Deliciosa Fruit. THIS is what you want to collect!

♦ Insomnia - usually caused when your character sleeps too little due to consuming high energy foods. This food increases your character's energy levels and thus reduces the need of sleep. As a result you won't sleep that often without even being aware of it. Insomnia reduces sanity as well and increases the use of energy. You'll be notified of this sickness by a sleep icon above your health meter. The number next to the icon indicates the level of insomnia (max. +6).

♦ Using maggots to clear an infection - wound infection occurs when lacerations, scratches and abrasions have been left untreated. This will require maggots to be placed on to the infected wound. The maggots will then eat any infected dead flesh from the wound. This will cause a small amount of sanity loss while the dead tissue is being removed.

♦ Sleeping on the ground - Gives you -3 sanity. However, sleep gives you +3, so you don't lose or gain sanity. But you'll most likely catch a worm and THIS will cause a loss of sanity.

♦ spoiled foods - self explanatory. Why would you eat that in the first place? You must have been insane already.

Here's a list of all consumables so far in the game. You can click on the icons on top of a column to sort the consumables ascending or descending after e.g. sanity. You'll quickly see which causes the highest losses and provides the most sanity or whatever value else you're interested in:

Consumables Sheets[greenhell.gamepedia.com]

[UnkemptGamerTTV]

I didn't see anyone mention honey yet. That's the easiest and most effective way to raise sanity quickly (fire being the best, slowly over time). Just use a rock or ax to knock down a beehive. Wait for the hive to roll away so the bees follow it, then scoop up the honeycomb when the coast is clear. (edit: honey gives +10 sanity)

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Originally posted by BURIN:

referring to insanity, the game asked to feed on something that adds more insanity, is anybody what kind of food it is?

Adds more insanity or adds more sanity? lol
Eat the tribes human meat raw or cooked will definitely add - raise your Insanity.
Leave leeches on.

[Eagle]

Eat honey 10 Sanity.