turn it into a bar on the side of the screen that slowly increases the longer you’re in the dark sea
the rate you accumulate water poisoning is the same in the close ranges, but it becomes 25% faster in the far ranges
specifics
The bar goes from 0-100 (nice and simple)
When exposed to the rain, you get 0.5% added to the water poisoning bar, and 0.625% in the far ranges, for a total of 200 seconds water poison free (or 160 in the far ranges) (while unprotected)
Standing under cover for 5 or more seconds, will drain the water poisoning bar by 1% per second
you might think “gosh this sounds even worse than how water poisoning is now!”
and yes, it kinda is, but that’s where the next part comes in:
Protection
Beast defense[1] now affects water poisoning gain. (if the armour is good enough to protect against massive animals, it’s good enough to protect against some rain)
So at max beast defense, you’ll be able to spend 10 minutes in the dark sea without having to worry about maxing out your water poisoning.
But to balance this out with something else, water poisoning is now no longer completely cleared by soap, instead, regular soap (including the brig bath) removes 10 percentage points of the built up water poisoning .
Additionally, there are several more cosmetic changes depending on how full the bar is
At 25% and higher, your character gets 2 new animations (one where they try to shake/brush water off themselves, and one where they hold themselves and shivers)
At 50% and higher you get similar messages to the red insanity text, but now white, in which your character complains about being soaked and their skin/eyes hurting a bit , or that they want to take shelter from the rain, or that they should’ve put on more protective clothes.
At 80% and higher the edges of your screen become a bit distorted and you regen stamina and health 25% slower
at 100 % you start to take water poisoning damage like usual (but instead of lasting for 5 minutes or something, it lasts for 5 seconds and gets refreshed constantly)
could maybe be renamed to something like wilderness defense? ↩︎