Grow a Garden · Crop Mutations
Rot
Grow a Garden · Crop Mutations
About Rot
Rot is a crop mutation worth x8 the base sell value. The Mandrake pet can apply it when harvesting a Mandrake crop.
Rot — In-Depth Analysis
Rot comes from the Mandrake pet, and only when that pet harvests a Mandrake crop. That narrow condition is the whole story for obtaining it.
Rot pays x8, which makes it 140th of 192 and puts it beside Webbed, Blight, Static, Necrotic, Pestilent, Eggnog, Spooky and Bloom. Bloom is the one that matters here, because the combining table lists Bloom plus Rot as the recipe for Gloom, which pays x30. Two x8 mutations turning into a x30 one is a better deal than either alone, though it means getting both Mandrake's Rot and a Bloom, from the Spriggan pet or its spray, onto the same crop.