Decay

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Description

Decay is the erosion over time of items and man-made structures, as well as player skills. There are various ways to reduce decay.

Skill decay modifiers

• As of September 18, 2010, skill decay was completely removed. All skill lost to decay was regained.
• Before the removal of skill decay, only skills above 70 decayed.
• Settlements that existed for a long time gave a skill decay bonus to their members. That bonus was observed to reach 90% reduction.

Item decay modifiers

• Deeds decrease decay on walls of any kind by 10x, if the upkeep is higher than 7 days.
• Deeds stop the decay on walls of any kind if the upkeep is higher than 30 days.
• Kingdoms reduce wall decay by 2x.
• Non-kingdom zones have no reduced decay.
• Normal decay will rot (wood only?) a 20 quality house wall in 1 month.
• Houses reduce item decay by ?.
• Containers will reduce decay by 2x.
• Items made out of cedar wood decay slower.
• Raw materials (clay, dirt, logs, rocks,meat etc) decay faster than finished materials (weapons, tools, etc.)
• There is a 2-day period of no decay after a wall is finished.
• Items do not decay in inventories or on merchants (note that using merchants to prevent decay may be considered an exploit on wild), with the exception of food items.
• Houses that are abandoned get greatly increased decay. A house is considered abandoned when the writ owner does not log in to the same server for more than 1.5 months (real life).

Myths

• Containers made out of cedar do not reduce the decay of its contents any more than a non-cedar container would.
• Stacking a container inside another container does NOT improve the bonus
• Containers in the inventory do not modify the decay rate of their contents at all.
• Bless has no affect on decay. Its only use is to activate metal altars.

Notes

• An item in a container, in a house, in kingdom territory probably multiplies the bonus, but this needs verifying.

Links

• Wurm Online Team Blog about decay