Decay

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Description

Decay is the erosion of items and manmade structures in Wurm or of player skills over 70. There are several ways to reduce item decay.

Decay rates

• 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.

Myths

• Containers made out of cedar do not reduce the decay of its contents any more than a non-cedar container would.
• Item decay rates inside caves are not faster or slower than outdoor locations.
• 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.
• Deeds only affect wall decay, they have no affect on items.
• Bless has no affect on decay. Its only use is to activate metal altars.

Notes

• Long standing deeds reduce decay of skills, this has no affect on items. This bonus increases over time.
• An item in a container, in a house, in kingdom territory probably multiplies the bonus, but this needs verifying.