Decay

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Decay is the property of some items to degrade, change, or disappear after a set amount of time.

Miscellaneous[]

Heat Source	Decay time	Decays into
Straw	4 min
Reed Bundle	4 min
Sheep Dung	30 min
Tule Stumps	1 hr
Stump	1 hr
Sapling Stump	1 hr
Dug Sapling Stump	2 min
Gooseberry	5min
Basket	10 hours	Floppy Basket
Stack of Baskets	10 hours	Stack of Floppy Baskets
Floppy Basket	30 min	Broken Basket
Stack of Floppy Baskets	30 min	Broken Basket
Broken Basket	1 hour
Dug Wild Cabbage	2 min
Dug Teosinte	2 min
Dug Wild Bean Plant	2 min
Dug Wild Squash Plant	2 min
Dug Wild Pepper Plant	2 min
Dug Wild Tomato Plant	2 min
Dirty Raw Corn Tortilla	5 min
Dirty Raw Wheat Tortilla	5 min
Bloody Wool Pad	2 min
Rose	30 min (blue rose does not decay)
Burnt Rabbit	3 min
Burnt Goose	3 min
Burnt Fish	3 min
Burnt Shrimp	3 min
Banana Peel	2 min
Leaf	2 min
Mango Leaf	2 min
Juniper Tinder	2 min
Pine Needles	1 hr
Wheat Stumps	2 min
Milkweed Debris	1 min	Milkweed Stump
Milkweed Debris(fruit)	10 min	Milkweed Stump
Milkweed Stump	1 min
Stone Wall	10 hours	Ancient Stone Wall
Adobe Wall	10 hours	Cracking Adobe Wall
Cracking Adobe Wall	30 min	Adobe Rubble
Property Fence	60 min	Rickety Property Fence
Rickety Property Fence	60 min	Property Fence Twigs

Clothes[]

Clothing which does not degrade includes: aprons, Straw Hat, Crowns, Mouflon Hide, Seal Skin, Sheep Skin, Reed Skirt, Toque Blanche, Old Boot and Plucked Turkey.

All other clothing will decay into Rag Hat, Rag Shirt, Rag Loincloth or Rag Shoe after 5 hours, then disappear after 30minutes.
Additionally, Backpack will decay into Tattered Backpack after 5 hours, then disappear after 30 minutes, dropping any contained items.

Tools[]

Tools with unlimited uses include: Stone, Flint Chip, Knife, Bellows, Wooden Sledge. Horse-Drawn Cart is immune to everything except Rattle Snake, creating a Tipped Horse-Drawn Cart which can be corrected with a rope. Crude Car is immune to all dangers, but requires Kerosene to run.

Heat Source	Decay time	Decays into
Hand Cart with Tires	10 hrs	Hand Cart
Hand Cart	10 hrs	Old Hand Cart
Old Hand Cart	30 min	Broken Hand Cart
Broken Hand Cart	20 min
Wheelbarrow	10 hrs	Old Wheelbarrow
Old Wheelbarrow	30 min	Broken Wheelbarrow
Broken Wheelbarrow	20 min
Broken Skewer	4 min
Broken Wood Tool	1 hr
Broken Stone Tool	1 hr
Broken Steel Tool	1 hr
Broken Small Stone Tool	1 hr

Seeds[]

Seeds which do not decay include: Wild Squash, Teosinte Seed Head, Dry Bean Pod, Wild Rose Hip and Rose Hip, Rose Seed, Stratified Rose Seed, Wild Potato Tubers, Raw Potato, Sprouting Potato and Split Potato Sprouts, Sugarcane Chunks and Bowls of seeds, .

Item	Image	Decay time
Gooseberry Seed		5 min
Carrot Seed Head		1 hour
Wheat Seed Head		2 min
Milkweed Seed		5 min
Corn Kernel		5 min
Squash Seeds		5 min
Cabbage Seed		5 min
Tomato Seed		5 min
Onion Seeds		5 min
Pepper Seed		5 min
Sapling Cutting Maple Tree Cutting, Poplar Tree Cutting, Pine Tree Cutting, Yew Tree Cutting Mango Tree Cutting		10 min

Farming[]

Also see: Bonsai

Heat Source	Decay time	Decays into
Carrot Row	5 min	Seeding Carrots
Empty Domestic Gooseberry Bush	2 min	Languishing Domestic Gooseberry Bush
Languishing Domestic Gooseberry Bush	30 min	Dying Gooseberry Bush
Dying Gooseberry Bush	1 hr	Dead Gooseberry Bush
Dry Maple Sapling Cutting Dry Poplar Sapling Cutting, Dry Pine Sapling Cutting, Dry Yew Sapling Cutting Dry Mango Sapling Cutting	20 min	Hardened Row
Dry Maple Sapling Dry Poplar Sapling, Dry Pine Sapling, Dry Yew Sapling Dry Mango Sapling	20 min	Dead Sapling
Eaten Carrot Row	10 min	Hardened Row

Smithing[]

Hot steel cools down after 10 seconds

See: Smithing

Bones and corpses[]

See Bones

Heat[]

Heat Source	Decay time	Decays into
Large Fast Fire	1 minute	Fire
Large Slow Fire	4 minutes	Fire
Fire	1 min	Hot Coals
Hot Coals	2 min	Ashes
Ashes	2 min
Firebrand	1 min	Long Straight Shaft
Ember Shaft	10 sec	Long Straight Shaft
Ember Leaf	10 sec	Leaf
Smoldering Tinder	5 sec	Burning Tinder
Burning Tinder	10 sec	Spent Tinder
Spent Tinder	2 min
Hot Flat Rock	2 min	Cool Flat Rock
Burning Adobe Oven	15 sec	Hot Adobe Oven
Hot Adobe Oven	1 min	Adobe Oven
Roasting Turkey	30 sec	Cooked Turkey
Firing Adobe Kiln	30 sec	Adobe Kiln
Firing Adobe Kiln Sealed	30 sec	Sealed Adobe Kiln
Firing Forge	30 sec	Forge
Dried Salt	2 min	Ashes with Bowl of Salt
Cooked Wood Shavings on Hot Coals	2 min	Ashes with Bowl of Cooked Wood Shavings
Cooked Omelette	10 sec	Burned Omelette
Burned Omelette	100 sec	Cool Flat Rock
Cooking Three Sisters Stew	30 sec	Three Sister's Stew
Cooking Turkey Broth	30 sec	Turkey Broth