Talk:Wild punga fruit

Rad Resist or Rad Purging?
Has anyone figured out if it's rad resist or rad purging that this stuff does? I'm inclined to believe it's the latter, as Rad-X is already pretty good at rad resistance. Maybe it does both at once? --MadCat221 02:08, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Both at once sounds like a way to make it different, its also possible it had a triple effect. minor hp, and rad-x/rad away. It may also only be more effected then the chems, if you don't have a high medicine. What be real nice is if it allowed to you exceed the normal rad resistance limit of 85%, get back the old 100% rad resistance from FO1-2.


 * FO 2 only have rad resistance up to 95% actually Kalalokki 09:07, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

I originally edited the page based on an article I read, and it seemed to imply that it raised your resistance, but the same kind of articles also said Feral Ghoul Reavers threw grenades at you before Broken Steel came out, and it turned out to be just toxic gloop from their stomach. That's the only reason I left it ambiguous.

I think it's gonna be a resistance raise, though I don't think it'll ever exceed 85%, which is a shame.GrandSabo 07:20, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Maybe it will lower rads over time? you gain rads at a rate of x/second maybe this fruit would make you lose rads at x/second for one hour. That certainly be different. LordVukodlak 11 June 2009 (UTC)

I wonder if it will be a perk more than a consumable. If so, it could be like the rad absorption perk that comes with Broken Steel or just a standard rad resistance sort of thing but I'd rather have the absorption style perk than just a vanilla rad resistance perk. Insincerity 22:34, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Well Punga_Power! the perk says it increases the rad recovery of eating Punga Fruit. So I'm guessing it acts as a natural rad-away. While that may not been much to the Lone Wanderer personally a food that removes rads as opposed to adding them, would be incredibly valuable to the wasteland as a whole., almost as significant as project purity its self.--LordVukodlak 09:01, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Oblivion Reference?
I remember from what little of Oblivion I've played there was a mushroom or fungus that supposedly only grew where someone had died. The trivia part of the page is obviously a reference to this, but what was the name of the fungus in Oblivion? Pararaptor 08:54, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Cairn Bolette. Grew almost exclusively in caves, though. --MadCat221 14:16, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Cairn Bolete, actually...213.65.69.18 22:58, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The parallel to that in FO3 is certainly not the punga fruit, but the green glowing mushrooms found in caves, also often growing on the remains of humans and in radioactive areas. Although not shown, those are probably the same stuff that the little lamplight kids are harvesting.--87.156.241.247 16:01, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Taste/ feel
What do you suppose wild punga fruit tastes and/or feels like? I personally think it feels like a mealy apple with peach fuzz on it and tastes like a mix between a peach and a tomato. I would never eat it... Best regards, Kastera(talk) 02:32, March 23, 2011 (UTC)