# Food spoilage calculation currently broken?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-spoilage-calculation-currently-broken/22606>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [January 28, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-spoilage-calculation-currently-broken/22606 "2020-01-28T16:32:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![GiggleGrassGatherer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/gigglegrassgatherer/32/7743_2.png) [@GiggleGrassGatherer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GiggleGrassGatherer)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-spoilage-calculation-currently-broken/22606/1 "2020-01-28T16:32:17Z")

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Just the thing I’ve noticed. Yesterday after an update half of my meat which was preserved in glass jars and stored in a freezer became rotten. I thought it was just a bug with food from old versions, no big deal. But just now I’ve attempted to sort food by spoilage(to find fresh meat I’ve dumped on the tile), and they are not in any semblance of order I could understand:  
mugwort, \>1 week  
salsify, \>3 weeks  
acorns, \>3 seasons  
flour, \<3 seasons  
…  
chunk of meat, \<1 day  
…  
cashews, ~2 seasons  
and so on it goes. It was working fine until today or maybe yesterday, was something changed recently? Can’t remember anything relevant in changelog.

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**Author:** ![Zhilkin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zhilkin/32/3749_2.png) [@Zhilkin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zhilkin)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-spoilage-calculation-currently-broken/22606/2 "2020-01-28T19:51:11Z")

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See [Date change and sudden food rotting](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/date-change-and-sudden-food-rotting/22450)

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**Author:** ![Valase](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valase/32/6972_2.png) [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-spoilage-calculation-currently-broken/22606/3 "2020-01-29T14:26:37Z")

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I think he’s more concerned about the order of the food.  
Food that spoils faster should / used to be on top of the list.

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**Author:** ![GiggleGrassGatherer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/gigglegrassgatherer/32/7743_2.png) [@GiggleGrassGatherer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GiggleGrassGatherer)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-spoilage-calculation-currently-broken/22606/4 "2020-01-30T12:41:04Z")

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Exactly. Spoiled food, eh, that char could barely notice it at this point. But wrong sorting order? It’s just, well… wrong!

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**Author:** ![ppanda0421](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/49beb7/32.png) [@ppanda0421](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ppanda0421)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-spoilage-calculation-currently-broken/22606/5 "2020-01-30T20:50:26Z")

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I think there is a serious issue with food rotting/spoilage calculation in the most recent updates. First I updated to 10109. I played around with it for a few days and everything with food (spoilage) looked fine - kind of (there’s a minor bug where you take out frozen food and a few secs later it becomes unfrozen). Then yesterday I updated to 10263 and saw the food spoilage issue.

I had tons of frozen food (both raw and crafted food) in my minifreezers. I leave the area and come back 2 hours later and most of it is rotten. Some food had 2-5 days to rot while others were good for several weeks.

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 ![RottenFood](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/6/699176533ab0a37636b0295db4deb00875afcaff.jpeg)