Iron Fence decaying after handful of days?

[daddy yiffy]

So, I made an Iron fence, and after about a year or two of it standing, it started decaying bit-by-bit. However, as I replaced each decayed part every day, I noticed parts that I just replaced a day or two ago are already decayed again. How is this possible? Is the fence decaying... contagious?

[Powerfull]

fence decaying is not cantagious. tough the time that a fence takes to decay is the same, there may be some variations on the exact day and the newly placed fences decaying out of nowhere is just your imagination.

[ChrillBill]

Nope it's not contagious. Either you have a glitch/bug that to my knowledge is unheard of or it is something related to outdated/conflicting mods if you use mods. Some useful info:

A gate lasts for 400 days
Wooden fence lasts for 54-58 days
Hardwood fence lasts for 558-562 days
Iron fence lasts for 248-252 days
Stone fence lasts for 118-122 days

[Das Boot]

Originally posted by ChrillBill:

A gate lasts for 400 days
Wooden fence lasts for 54-58 days
Hardwood fence lasts for 558-562 days
Iron fence lasts for 248-252 days
Stone fence lasts for 118-122 days

Hardwood lasts longer than Iron? Interesting. It helps in organizing my farm.

[Stardustfire]

if you want a real sturdy "fence" use lightning rods or best tea bushes (because the rods can still get killed by "advancing wilderness", the bushes dont get "attacked" by the spread)

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by Das Boot:

Hardwood lasts longer than Iron? Interesting. It helps in organizing my farm.

Hardwood takes quite long to farm, especially back in the days, where the mohagony tree wasn't a thing. Iron on the other hand is more or less buyable, but since it is used in many other recipes, it's better gameplaywise to make something else lasting longer, which doesn't really have that many recipes.

[daddy yiffy]

Very strange, I was fairly certain that the fence I saw decay was one I placed just a few days before, as it was both fences right next to my gate, thus easy to remember... my co-player remembered so, too. Alas we might both simply be going crazy. I've placed torches on any new fence now to keep track of them xD

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

if you want a real sturdy "fence" use lightning rods or best tea bushes (because the rods can still get killed by "advancing wilderness", the bushes dont get "attacked" by the spread)

This is a little confusing, what exactly do you mean by "advancing wilderness" and the "spread"? Are you simply talking about fiber/rocks/stumps appearing on the farm? I never noticed those destroying any of my fences or rods, but maybe I just gotten lucky so far...

[Powerfull]

Originally posted by daddy yiffy:

Very strange, I was fairly certain that the fence I saw decay was one I placed just a few days before, as it was both fences right next to my gate, thus easy to remember... my co-player remembered so, too. Alas we might both simply be going crazy. I've placed torches on any new fence now to keep track of them xD

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

if you want a real sturdy "fence" use lightning rods or best tea bushes (because the rods can still get killed by "advancing wilderness", the bushes dont get "attacked" by the spread)

This is a little confusing, what exactly do you mean by "advancing wilderness" and the "spread"? Are you simply talking about fiber/rocks/stumps appearing on the farm? I never noticed those destroying any of my fences or rods, but maybe I just gotten lucky so far...

no, the fences are made to prevent the ''advancing wilderness'' (the weeds, logs and stones appearing on the farm) from damaging your crops.

[ChrillBill]

Originally posted by daddy yiffy:

Very strange, I was fairly certain that the fence I saw decay was one I placed just a few days before, as it was both fences right next to my gate, thus easy to remember... my co-player remembered so, too. Alas we might both simply be going crazy. I've placed torches on any new fence now to keep track of them xD

Well it could be a multiplayer bug/glitch. Stranger things has happened in multiplayer from what I have gathered. Clever idea placing torches on them to keep track :>

[Stardustfire]

what i meaned by that is that sometimes you get a message that the spreading wilderness destroyed something from your farm (normaly when fiber plants multipled or at the start of a new season) , and against Powerfuls wrong info, fences can get destroyed by that too. tea bushes on the other hand are considered as trees in that department, and trees dont suffer from that.

[Powerfull]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

what i meaned by that is that sometimes you get a message that the spreading wilderness destroyed something from your farm (normaly when fiber plants multipled or at the start of a new season) , and against Powerfuls wrong info, fences can get destroyed by that too. tea bushes on the other hand are considered as trees in that department, and trees dont suffer from that.

The wiki dosen't say anything about fences other then their decay time and i remember hearing in some youtube video that fences don't get destroyed by the ''spreading wilderness''. (also the only reason a fence ever got destroyed on my 6 year farm is beacuse of the decay time) So yeah i'm trusting my gut instead of the brony and i think you should too, OP.

[ChrillBill]

The wiki confirms that spreading weeds doesn't destroy fences. Fence and chests are the only items placed by the player that the spreading weeds cannot destroy. Source[stardewvalleywiki.com]

[U DON'T NEED TO KNOW MY NAME]

Don;t know what r u on about my iron fence keep staying the same for all these in game years unless I accidentally blow em up

[Powerfull]

Originally posted by U DON'T NEED TO KNOW MY NAME:

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Hardwood also is the ugliest looking one right after wooden fence

imo the iron fence is worst and the hardwood one is the best.