Rotten Plant
| Rotten Plant | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Jack-O-Lantern |
| Sell Price | 0g |
The Rotten Plant is a slimy heap of compost, and it almost always starts life as a Jack-O-Lantern. A lantern left standing outside when Fall turns to Winter decays overnight into this worthless mush. It sells for nothing, every villager hates it, and most farmers simply clear it away. It does have two small claims to fame, though. It counts as an orange item for one of Mr. Qi's special orders, and it plays the punchline in the secret of the Solid Gold Lewis statue.
Location
Jack-O-Lanterns are the usual cause. Pierre sells them at his booth during the Spirit's Eve festival at the end of Fall, and the same booth sells the crafting recipe. Crafting a lantern takes a Pumpkin and a Torch. Placed lanterns light up a farm nicely through the last days of Fall. On the first morning of Winter, any lantern still standing has turned into a Rotten Plant.
The decay only strikes at the start of Winter. With the recipe, lanterns can be crafted at any time of year, and one placed in Spring stands safely through Spring, Summer and Fall.
The fix is simple. Picking the lanterns up before Fall ends and keeping them in a chest or the inventory keeps them whole. They can go back out once Winter has begun, or wait for the next Spirit's Eve.
The other way to get one is a secret. Secret Note #19 shows a path of arrows that starts at the door of 1 Willow Lane. Following the arrows across town leads to a Solid Gold Lewis statue hidden behind the Mayor's Manor. Placing that statue anywhere in Pelican Town sets up the joke. If no villager walks through it, the statue is gone the next morning and a Rotten Plant stands in its place. An unsigned letter with gold then arrives, asking the farmer never to display those private belongings again. The statue itself returns to a bedroom in town, usually Lewis's but now and then Marnie's.
Uses
Mr. Qi's "Qi's Prismatic Grange" special order asks for displays of items in many colours. A Rotten Plant can fill the orange slot, which makes it a free answer for that colour. The dye pots at Emily and Haley's house also accept it as an orange dye.
Notes
A Rotten Plant left in the field can be cleared with any tool. Since it sells for nothing and every villager hates it as a gift, clearing it away is usually the best choice.
All Resources
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bat Wing | 
|
15g |
| Battery Pack | 
|
500g |
| Bone Fragment | 
|
12g |
| Broken CD | 
|
0g |
| Broken Glasses | 
|
0g |
| Bug Meat | 
|
8g |
| Cave Jelly | 
|
180g |
| Cinder Shard | 
|
50g |
| Clay | 
|
20g |
| Coal | 
|
15g |
| Copper Bar | 
|
- |
| Copper Ore | 
|
5g |
| Driftwood | 
|
0g |
| Fiber | 
|
1g |
| Gold Bar | 
|
- |
| Gold Ore | 
|
25g |
| Green Algae | 
|
15g |
| Hardwood | 
|
15g |
| Iridium Bar | 
|
- |
| Iridium Ore | 
|
100g |
| Iron Bar | 
|
- |
| Iron Ore | 
|
10g |
| Joja Cola | 
|
25g |
| Monster Loot | - | - |
| Moss | 
|
5g |
| Radioactive Bar | 
|
- |
| Radioactive Ore | 
|
300g |
| Refined Quartz | 
|
50g |
| Rice | 
|
100g |
| River Jelly | 
|
125g |
| Rotten Plant | 
|
0g |
| Sea Jelly | 
|
200g |
| Soggy Newspaper | 
|
0g |
| Solar Essence | 
|
40g |
| Stone | 
|
2g |
| Sugar | 
|
50g |
| Trash | - | - |
| Trash (item) | 
|
0g |
| Treasure Chest | 
|
5000g |
| Vinegar | 
|
100g |
| Void Essence | 
|
50g |
| Wheat Flour | 
|
50g |
| White Algae | 
|
25g |
| Wood | 
|
2g |