Cooked Snake Meat

In the jungle the snake is both the danger and the snack. Kill one, harvest it, and you walk away with raw snake meat plus snake venom. The venom is why most players bother; the meat is what keeps you going while you look for the next one.

Cooking is the usual drill. Raw, the meat damages your health by its own text. Drop it into a camp fire with some wood and it comes out as this, which the game calls delicious and which restores some health, hunger and thirst. On a long jungle run it saves you a trip home for food.

A typical day: you and a friend go snake hunting so the blow pipe has darts for the week, with a small fire going by the river where you regroup. Every snake that drops feeds you on the spot, and the venom goes straight into the bag.

The item list has a spoiled snake meat but no burnt one, so a fire you forget for a minute is less of a risk here than with other meat. Eat it on the trip rather than hauling it home.