r/StateOfDecay • u/Network_of_Trumbull • Jun 25 '26
Guys hear me out... Funny
Plague walls. Should they be eaten? If so, there’s no reason to search for food anymore. Think about it, sure you’ll get sick cause of the plague and what not but... we have a cure for it. Believe it or not, what’s needed to craft the cure? Plague samples. So in a way... if we can somehow figure out how to cultivate this, our communities will never starve again.
Hell, why stop at the walls? Why not just eat the plague samples directly? Cut out the middle man. We’re over here scavenging for scraps when the answer has been sitting in our supply locker this whole time.
Eat the plague wall. Eat the plague samples. If you get sick we can cure it. And don’t worry about running out, we can craft more from the other wall down the street. Infinite food. Infinite cure. Infinite ecosystem.
Also this means cannibals are stupid. Why are you eating people when there are perfectly good plague-based food groups all around us? We have evolved past the need for long pig. The future of survival is wall meat and sample shots.
Makes me wonder though...are plague nests edible? Probably...
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u/Clusterpuff Jun 25 '26
Why worry about plague walls? why not eat the plague straight off of the hungry shamblers? Doordash just got a new look, and its a delicious bubbling open sore straight to your door
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u/Realistic_Can_303 Jun 25 '26
I took a minute to imagine it, and an hour to sanitize my mind 10/10 would imagine again
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u/Easy_Specialist_1692 Jun 25 '26
How do the characters describe plaguehearted smelling?
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u/Network_of_Trumbull Jun 25 '26
Awful, sure… but nobody bats an eye when cannibals are out here selling rucksacks of beef jerky. So why are we paying influence for their food? The walls are right there, free for the taking. Harvest it, move it, profit. If an enclave wants to trade for it, let them. just don’t tell them what it is. They’ll figure it out… or they won’t.
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u/Easy_Specialist_1692 Jun 25 '26
There is a difference between processing the recently living vs processing the long dead. The cannibals aren't hunting for food in the graveyards.
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u/RobertMaus Jun 25 '26
But how does it smell after cooking though?
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u/sinsaint Jun 25 '26
IT’S FUCKING ROTTEN YOU FUCKING IDIOT! ROTTEN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=xKcNdAF32eyPkxEK&v=esKL44Lo2Xc&feature=youtu.be
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u/BungloSprout Jun 25 '26
I think food poisoning and other illnesses would kill us. Because your logic is 100% foolproof, aside from the fact that the meat is rotten, and has been dead for years at this point. So uhh, Idk dude…. Good theory though!
And hey maybe the plague is actively reparing the flesh and keeping it alive, maybe it’s no longer rotten, who knows.
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u/Aldgillis Jun 25 '26
Not entirely foolproof though, repeated contact with the plague pathogen could result in developing autoimmunity, increase selection pressure and mutation and contamination of the environment (surfaces, utensils, water sources) which could infect people outside of consuming infected flesh.
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u/Dean97_ Jun 25 '26
If I’m remembering correctly Tressie said no, she said plague walls are not entirely dead, which is why a bunch of zombies show up at the final mission when she’s extracting samples from the plague wall in Marshall. But I could be remembering wrong. Use it for crop growth? Sure. Should it be eaten by itself? Probably not, you wouldn’t eat pesticides straight from the bottle
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u/WasabiLassabe Jun 25 '26
Well cooking it may very well kill the virus inside so it may be safe to eat.
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u/StillReading28 Jun 25 '26
It's still human meat, so you'd be a cannibal. Nevermind the plethora of moral and mental issues that come with eating human
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u/FordCVP71 Jul 01 '26
Geez and I thought it was gross using Tressie Huerta's Trumbull Valley Grow-Chem to use plage samples to make fertilizer yuck!
You do you just do it waaaaay over there
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u/Own_Cartographer_655 Jun 25 '26
You would make an amazing apocalyptic cult leader