# Food spoilage and season length?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-spoilage-and-season-length/16442
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [August 31, 2018, 7:03am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-spoilage-and-season-length/16442 "2018-08-31T07:03:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@randplay](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/randplay)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2018, 7:03am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-spoilage-and-season-length/16442/1 "2018-08-31T07:03:18Z")
I couldn’t find an answer using Google and the search function on the GitHub issues, but I couldn’t find any discussion on food spoilage in relation to season length. I like the idea of spoilage, but I’m not sure about the 3 year spoilage timer for dehydrated food (on 14 day seasons) versus 3 seasons (on 91 day seasons). I understand that this is code dependent, but are there any plans on possibly changing this? Or maybe making it an option like construction scaling?
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### Author:  [@Trigon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Trigon)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-spoilage-and-season-length/16442/2 "2018-08-31T13:14:27Z")
I think someone once confirmed that it’s based on the 14 day seasons. I’ve had games where things that were supposed to last a season didn’t seem to (I play with 30 day seasons) but I can’t confirm with any real evidence.
Some of these smarter folks might have a better answer but I’m fairly sure it doesn’t scale.
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### Author:  [@mr\_sep](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/mr_sep)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 12:08pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-spoilage-and-season-length/16442/3 "2018-09-03T12:08:45Z")
It is based on real world data, so it’s rounded to 30 days seasons. And it does not scale.