Scorpions in PEAK can be both a danger and a useful resource. They’re poisonous if you’re not careful, but you can also turn them into food once you know how. In this guide, we’ll go over where scorpions appear, how to deal with them safely, and the special method you need to cook them into something edible.
How to Deal With Scorpions in PEAK
Scorpions only show up in the Mesa biome, and you’ll see them a lot more often at night. They’re pretty tiny, but not too hard to notice since they usually crawl around in circles. If one gets close, it’ll raise its stinger and jab you with a poisonous hit.
The best way to deal with them is to just pick them up and throw them away. Walk up to a scorpion and press E to grab it. Once it’s in your hands, it’ll try to sting you. The stinger will glow right before it strikes. To stay safe, hold E again to charge up a throw. Let go when the bar is about halfway full, and you’ll toss it far enough before it can sting you.
How to Get Cooked Scorpions in PEAK
Cooking scorpions works a little differently than you might think. You can’t just throw them on a campfire. In PEAK, the only way to cook them is with Dynamite. If a scorpion gets caught in a Dynamite blast, it turns into a Cooked Scorpion, which you can eat. Eating one will refill some of your hunger.
It might be a bug, but when you eat a Cooked Scorpion, your hunger bar seems to get “stuck.” After eating one, your hunger won’t go down, no matter what else you eat; you’re basically locked at the same hunger level for the rest of the run. The weird part is that new hunger still gets added on top of it over time. Eat a bunch of cookies about five minutes after eating a scorpion, and that will actually clear the effect, so it’s not fully stuck.
