Rot

"Everything turns to waste eventually."

- Wendy

Rot is produced when Food items (excluding the Egg) are left alone and spoil after a certain time. Rot can be used as Fertilizer for Farming (fertilizing Farm Plots and advancing growth) and reviving Plants. It will fertilize 1/4 of the amount Manure would and advance growth 1/5 as much as manure would.

Mobs, such as Pigs or Smallish Tallbirds will eat Rot left on the ground, but they will not accept it if the player gives it to them. Since Rot doesn't restore any Health or Hunger to Mobs, they will eat up all Rot left on the ground.

Tips

 * A quick way of making Rot for fertilizing is to leave Roasted Berries or Fish laying on the ground (preferably in a walled off place, so that animals can't eat them).
 * Another quick way of making Rot is to take all unwanted food  (nothing else) and enter a cave, let yourself die to any mob near the exit (The game does not end if one dies in a cave). After re-entering the cave, all foods will have turned to rot.
 * When playing as     WX-78    it still will hurt to eat rot.

Trivia

 * Rot originally looked like a blue ball.
 * Though the texture is now a misshapen blob, multiple characters still refer to it as a "ball".
 * WX-78 will say "SPOILED FOOD IS STILL FOOD" when eating rot.
 * If you let an Egg spoil, it will turn into a Rotten Egg instead of rot.
 * If you do not want rot in your inventory, you can get rid of it by leaving it the middle of a Pig Village. Chances are a Pig will eat the rot eventually.