Disease

• Grass Tuft
• Sapling
• Berry Bush
• Stone Fruit Bush

Grass Tuft
Object Properties
Tool Required
Resources
Renewable?	No
Sources
Common Biomes	Anywhere Grass Tufts are present.
Code
None

Sapling
Object Properties
Tool Required
Resources
Renewable?	No
Sources
Common Biomes	Anywhere Saplings are present.
Code
None

• Normal
• Juicy

Berry Bush
Object Properties
Tool Required
Resources
Renewable?	No
Sources
Common Biomes	Anywhere Berry Bushes are present.
Code
None

Juicy Berry Bush
Object Properties
Tool Required	None
Resources
Renewable?	No
Sources
Common Biomes	Anywhere Juicy Berry Bushes are present.
Code
None

Stone Fruit Bush
Object Properties
Tool Required
Resources
Renewable?	Yes
Sources
Common Biomes	Anywhere Stone Fruit Bushes are present.
Code
None

“It looks pretty sick.”

–Wilson, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

“Burn the sick!”

–Willow, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

“Is weak. Sickly!”

–Wolfgang, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

“It's not long for this world...”

–Wendy, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

“HA. DISEASE. A BIOLOGICAL LAPSE IN JUDGMENT”

–WX-78, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

“It's afflicted with an agrarian disease beyond my curing.”

–Wickerbottom, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

“It's caught a bit of a bug.”

–Woodie, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

“What has brought this blight upon my world?”

–Maxwell, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

“The disease festers within its söul.”

–Wigfrid, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

“Maybe it needs some chicken soup?”

–Webber, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

“It's got food poisoning.”

–Warly, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

“Sick! Very, very sick!”

–Wormwood, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

“Maybe you oughta take a sick day...”

–Winona, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

“Now it stinks really good!”

–Wortox, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

“Won't make snacks if sick, florp.”

–Wurt, when examining a Diseased Berry Bush.

Disease is a feature that affects replanted Plants in Don't Starve Together, introduced in A New Reign. Diseased plants will appear to be surrounded by flies and become darker in color before dying and disappearing. They do not drop their specific resources, but instead yield Rot if being picked or dug up by the player with a Shovel.

Mechanics

After a plant has been replanted by the player, it will have a timer set somewhere between 30-70 days. Once that timer is up, it has a 10% chance to become diseased. If the chance fails, the timer is reset to another value between 30-70 days and the process will repeat itself. If it's successful, the character will comment when harvesting the plants for 4-6 days to warn the player that the plant will become diseased. If it turns fully diseased, it will begin to spread to other nearby replanted crops every 1.5-2.5 days with no warning. The player can dig up the plant in its warning phase in order to manually reset the timer, or at the very least if it's too late and the plant's already diseased, the player should dig up the plant to prevent it from spreading, but the diseased plant will be destroyed in the process.

The following table illustrates the variants available for each type of resource, note that the sources on bold are invulnerable to Disease:

Resource Type	Grass		Twigs		Berries		Stone Fruit
Plant Variant
	Grass Gekko	Grass Tuft	Sapling	Twiggy Tree	Berry Bush	Juicy Berry Bush	Stone Fruit Bush
Specific Resource
	Cut Grass		Twigs		Berries	Juicy Berries	Stone Fruit

Trivia

• Disease was added to the game way before A New Reign was announced, becoming part of the latter after the Beta release with some tweaks. Before that, Grass Gekkos and Twiggy Trees were also able to become diseased.
• There are unused sprites for Diseased Logs, Juicy Berries and the dug version of each plant in the game's files.

Gallery

Diseased Berry Bush as seen in the poster for the East or West, Base is Best update.

A Diseased Sapling on the Lunar Island.

A Diseased Berry Bush of the leafy variant.

Removed Diseased Grass Gekko.

A Diseased Grass Gekko running from Webber.

Removed Diseased Twiggy Tree.

Unused sprites for Diseased dug up resources.

Unused Diseased Log.

Unused Diseased Juicy Berries.