--- About ---

Root & Rot is a idle-farming game made for Kenney Jam 2026 (theme: SCALE). 

Plant seeds, watch them grow through their stages, and harvest at the perfect moment, or wait too long and lose the crop to rot. Reinvest your gold into new plots, better seeds, and quality-of-life upgrades, and watch your farm scale up in every sense: more plots, bigger crops, and a field size that grows.

--- How to Play ---

Left-click an empty plot to plant your current seed. Crops grow through three stages, harvest at the peak stage for full value, or a little late for half value. Wait too long and you'll lose the crop entirely, so keep an eye on your farm as it grows! You can also buy new plots if you have enough money.

Right-click any plot to open its picker: choose which unlocked seed grows there next, or spend gold on permanent upgrades — Water (faster growth), Auto-Plant, and Auto-Harvest. You can also use middle-click to insta-buy all available and affordable upgrades.

Use your gold in the Shop located in the upper-left corner of the screen to unlock new crops and upgrade their yield.

To plant crops: Buy a plot, right-click to select a seed, and then left click to plant it. If other plots are new and empty, the last selected seed will be used. If not, the previous planted seed will be used.

To change a crop on an already in use plot: Right-click and select the new crop, next plant cycle will use that new seed instead.

--- Controls ---

Mouse only:

• Left-click: plant / harvest, use shop & menu buttons
• Right-click: open a plot's seed/upgrade picker. Only works when hovering an active plot
• Middle-click: Buys all affordable upgrades for an active plot

You can also click-drag around to plant, harvest or upgrade plots.

--- Credits ---

Art Assets:

• Kenney's Tiny farm, Tiny town, Cursor Pixel, and UI Pixel Adventure

Fonts:

• m6x11 font by Daniel Linssen

Music and SFX:

• Some SFX and the main music from Cozy SFX Volume 1 by HuntSounds
• Many SFX from bundles by FilmCow
• Zoom Change SFX from Golden UI Pack by Andrew 232

--- Changelog ---

• v1.0 - Initial game release