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[[File:Crop blight.png|400px|thumb|right|Blighted [[potato plant]]s with a bubble-shaped yellow indicator above them.]] | [[File:Crop blight.png|400px|thumb|right|Blighted [[potato plant]]s with a bubble-shaped yellow indicator above them.]] | ||
− | Blight is a disease that infects [[domesticated plants]] with a growing period shorter than 15 days | + | Blight is a disease that infects [[domesticated plants]] with a growing period shorter than 15 days. |
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− | == | + | Blighted crops will not grow or yield anything when harvested, and can spread the blight to other nearby plants while losing health points and dying. |
− | Blight starts on one | + | |
− | + | == Evolution == | |
+ | Blight starts on ''one'' of your crops, at 10% severity , affecting 20% of your plants (40% initial plants affected has been witnessed in December of 2020). It will progress slowly once plants are infected, and once it reaches 28% it can spread to nearby plants within a 4-tile radius. | ||
== Unaffected Plants == | == Unaffected Plants == | ||
− | [[Tree]]s, [[Wild Plants|wild]], [[Decorative Plants|decorative]] plants, | + | [[Tree]]s, [[Wild Plants|wild]], and [[Decorative Plants|decorative]] plants are immune to blight, as well as [[domesticated plants]] with a 15-day or longer growing period (e.g. [[devilstrand mushroom]], [[cocoa tree]], etc.). |
== Removal == | == Removal == | ||
− | To stop | + | To stop blight, the affected plants need to be manually selected for cutting (using the right-click plant cut command, or in the Orders tab of the [[Architect]] menu), or burned with [[Molotov cocktails]] or [[Incendiary launcher]]s, though burning the plants may be inaccurate and kill plants that are not blighted. |
− | + | The advised method to deal with a blight outbreak is to set up a plant cutting order for all blighted plants and quickly set plant cutting to priority 1 for everybody. Once the blight has been dealt with, reset the priorities. | |
== Mitigation strategy == | == Mitigation strategy == | ||
− | To mitigate the effects of blight, it is recommended to leave | + | To mitigate the effects of blight, it is recommended to leave 3-square wide empty strips between crops.<br> |
− | + | It is also possible to create strips of plants not affected by blight. | |
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