Ham Bat

[Mr_Bubblez]

Just a quick question to make sure it's not a bug.

 

Is it normal it gets rubbish the more it gets spoiled?

[Strangerdanger101]

I thought the damage remained the same?

[DwerBomb]

Just a quick question to make sure it's not a bug.

 

Is it normal it gets rubbish the more it gets spoiled?

Yup. That's a new feature.

[Mr_Bubblez]

Ok thanks

[MaxStrategy]

I thought the damage remained the same?

Changed in the last update.

[emerphish]

it isn't good anymore

[oCrapaCreeper]

it isn't good anymore

You have a melee weapon with infinite durability for 10 days, and barely has any differences from a spear even before it turns to rot. Seems good to me.

[Plague Mouse]

I admit, if there was one thing I never thought they would nerf was the ham bat. It always looked like the signature weapon of the game to be feature in arts and concepts.

 

I never used it, though, so I can't say about it being unbalanced.

[Cacahuatoforo]

You have a melee weapon with infinite durability for 10 days, and barely has any differences from a spear even before it turns to rot. Seems good to me.

 

It actually becomes useless after 8 days, after that it causes less damage than a spear. Now it's just barely above useless, it can be useful if crafted at the right time in the right place though.

[oCrapaCreeper]

It actually becomes useless after 8 days, after that it causes less damage than a spear. Now it's just barely above useless, it can be useful if crafted at the right time in the right place though.

That lowest damage it does has almost no differences compared to the spear in terms of the number of hits to kill things though, even though it is less damaged. 1 hit difference at most, that's usually around the time you want to consider making a new one.

 

Still pretty useful. You can even put it in an Insulated Pack so it lasts longer.

[mrtwoface]

That lowest damage it does has almost no differences compared to the spear in terms of the number of hits to kill things though, even though it is less damaged. 1 hit difference at most, that's usually around the time you want to consider making a new one.

 

Still pretty useful. You can even put it in an Insulated Pack so it lasts longer.

Do you actually know that it lasts longer or do you just think that? No offense, but I don't think it can be preserved like regular food, it can't go in the icebox. I kept my Ham Bat in Snow Chester before the update and it still seemed to rot at the same speed. Don't get me wrong, I will be very satisfied if the Ham Bat can now be preserved to balance the nerf. 

[mizukisha]

I tried to put my ham bat in the fridge it didn't worked,maybe because it's a weapon for first and second the meat arround it could work in the fridge,and nerfed or not a spear is always good or some tentacule spikes

[Cacahuatoforo]

Do you actually know that it lasts longer or do you just think that? No offense, but I don't think it can be preserved like regular food, it can't go in the icebox. I kept my Ham Bat in Snow Chester before the update and it still seemed to rot at the same speed. Don't get me wrong, I will be very satisfied if the Ham Bat can now be preserved to balance the nerf. 

 

Well, it do lasts longer in winter, but I'm not quite sure about the insulated pack and chester.

[mrtwoface]

Well, it do lasts longer in winter, but I'm not quite sure about the insulated pack and chester.

I don't think it can be one of them without the other, maybe I'll go check it out...

 

edit: I asked on the patch notes thread and a dev said that they will make the Ham Bat preservable next patch  

[MaxStrategy]

I don't think the hambat acts like a food in any other way besides its set decay. Would be interesting to know if it does last longer under certain circumstances though. I always thought it was sort of OP so I avoided it

[oCrapaCreeper]

Well, it do lasts longer in winter, but I'm not quite sure about the insulated pack and chester.

 

Do you actually know that it lasts longer or do you just think that? No offense, but I don't think it can be preserved like regular food, it can't go in the icebox. I kept my Ham Bat in Snow Chester before the update and it still seemed to rot at the same speed. Don't get me wrong, I will be very satisfied if the Ham Bat can now be preserved to balance the nerf. 

 

I just started a new world, debugspawned a pack and a hambat, and used the skip days command. It took 21 days for it to fully spoil.

 

So it does indeed act like a food. I'd assume this applies to the parasol and the garland too.

[goldfish911]

Go figure,the tentacle spike is now superior again. Yay? May as we'll swap back to spears and stuff.

[Flare2V]

It was nerfed (only in DLC) to counteract the mad spoil time it had when you kept it in an insulated pack.

[Doctor H. Derp]

I'd still say that the ham bat is the best general melee weapon.

 

If you're really that concerned with a fight taking longer because the ham bat doesn't do as much work as it used to as it spoils, make a dark sword. A dark sword will finish a melee fight faster than a ham bat ever could.

[Misaki]

You see, fridge is a food insulating container, it is especially designed for items that can be eaten, not the items that can spoil, but, both Snow Chester and Insulated Pack are containers WITH the insulation feature, so you can still put everything in it that is, or isn't food, even though Ham Bat is not a food, it still spoils, and insulation decreases spoilage value of every item, fridge can only contain food, so it only decreases spoilage value of food items, Insulation Pack and Snow Chester can contain everything so they decrease spoilage value of everything that can spoil.