Rotten Spud

#Overview

Rotten Spud is a trade-off passive. Each level adds 0.1 curse, up to 0.5 at level 5. Curse makes the run harder and more rewarding at the same time: in-game, “Curse makes enemies tougher, faster and more numerous, and raises XP and gold.”

It is the catalyst for Landmine Harvest (from Tater Mines) and Moon Cleaver (from Mezzaluna). At level 5 it also evolves Boom Spud into Kaboom Spud.

#How it works

With Rotten Spud as the only curse source, the effects at level 1 and level 5 are (formulas on Curse):

The ordinary crowd ceiling is capped at 500 on Easy/Normal, 650 on Hard and 800 on Nightmare. Hard and Nightmare also have a late ceiling floor, so curse is not the only way to raise the crowd.

Rotten Spud raises only the curse stat. It does not count as a curse taken, so unlike a Moldy Shrine it adds no extra elites or bosses (see Curse).

#Tips

• A bigger crowd should also mean more kills and so more XP gems, on top of the higher XP multiplier. Whether that is worth tougher pests depends on how comfortably your build clears.
• Kaboom Spud's explosions hit for half the dead enemy's max HP (“25% of kills explode, hitting nearby enemies for half the dead enemy's max HP.”). Curse raises enemy max HP, so it also makes those explosions stronger.
• Moon Cleaver hits harder the more HP Tibo is missing, which suits a riskier, cursed run.

#Levels

Totals are added to Tibo's stat sum. How each stat turns into a multiplier (caps and diminishing returns) is on Stats.

#Catalyst for

Result	Also needs
Landmine Harvest	Tater Mines at max level
Moon Cleaver	Mezzaluna at max level
Kaboom Spud	Boom Spud

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[1] See Languages.

#Data

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  "id": "rotten-spud",
  "stat": "curse",
  "perLevel": 0.1,
  "maxLevel": 5,
  "weight": 60
}