Disease

Grass Tuft=

Sapling=

Berry Bush=

Grass Gekko=

Twiggy Tree=

Juicy Berry Bush=

"What has brought this blight upon my world?"

- Maxwell

Disease is a feature that affects plants and plant-like Mobs in Don't Starve Together. Its purpose is to change the world's resources to their variants over time. Diseased plants will appear to be surrounded by flies and become darker in color before dying and disappearing. There is currently no known way to "cure" a diseased plant, although digging it up will yield a healthy plant. The Disease will go through various stages before causing death.

Mechanics
After 2 Seasons (on normal settings), the world will start to spawn a variant each available plant-based resource. The existing variant will become diseased and disappear after some time. After the switching period, only the new variant of the resources will be available, until the next switching period.

The following table illustrates the variants available for each type of resource:

Planting Grass Tufts on Savanna Turf protects them against Disease.

Trivia

 * The TEX files reveal that item versions of the diseased plants are planned, meaning that digging up to "cure" the plant won't last forever.
 * There is a sprite for Diseased Logs in the Twiggy Tree tex files.

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Disease