Snake Oil

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Snake Oil
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Perk	Forces a jump animation
Dropped by	(0.33%) (0.2%) (0.33%)
	"snakeoil"

“The label says "Jay's Wondrous Snake Oil!"”

–Wilson

“I'm not convinced.”

–Willow

“Good for shining Wolfgang's muscles!”

–Wolfgang

“This fills me with a sense of mistrust.”

–Wendy

“THIS HAS NO BENEFICIAL PROPERTIES WHATSOEVER”

–WX-78

“The usefulness of this substance remains uncertain.”

–Wickerbottom

“I'm not falling for this.”

–Woodie

“Perhaps I could turn a profit with this.”

–Maxwell

“Ah, I made a fortune selling such concoctions in my youth.”

–Wagstaff

“What pöwerful pröperties döes this bestöw?”

–Wigfrid

“It really works!”

–Webber

“I wasn't born yesterday.”

–Walani

“Why can't you be olive oil?”

–Warly

“Me knows a good deal when me sees it.”

–Woodlegs

“NOTHING COMES OF IT”

–Wilba

“Hmm...”

–Wormwood

“I know it's a fake, but I still just have to try it!”

–Wheeler

Snake Oil is an item exclusive to the Shipwrecked DLC. It is a very rare joke drop from Snakes and Poison Snakes.

It can be quaffed like Anti Venom, but this doesn't remove Poison or consume the Snake Oil. It can be removed by throwing it in a Fire Pit or Chiminea, but it has no value as Fuel either.

Hamlet

Snake Oil is also included in the Hamlet DLC. It can be obtained rarely by killing Vipers.

Trivia

• "Snake oil" is an expression that refers to health products with no verifiable benefits.
• There are 2 game files that prove that the intended use for Snake Oil is for it to have no use:
  • poisonhealer.lua: part of the 3rd line reads: "--Used for snakeoil. We don't want it to actually do anything.". "We" is referred to the developers.
  • snakeoil.lua: lines 23 to 27 read, which mean it is a fuel with a value of 0 and is a poison cure that does not cure at all:

   inst:AddComponent("fuel")
   inst.components.fuel.fuelvalue = 0

   inst:AddComponent("poisonhealer")
   inst.components.poisonhealer.enabled = false