Rot Mutation Guide 🌱 — Grow a Garden Roblox
By Paquito Jr Conde | August 25, 2025

The Rot Mutation is one of the most exciting crop boosts in Grow a Garden! 💀🌿 With its ×5 sale value multiplier, it can turn your harvests into serious profit. This guide explains how to unlock it, the chances of getting it, and the event where it was first released.
Rot Mutation Guide 🌱⚗️ — Grow a Garden (Roblox)
Here’s a simple, player-friendly guide to the Rot Mutation—what it does, how to unlock it fast, and the event where it arrived. Let’s boost those profits! 💰✨
Rot Mutation Overview 🧪
- Multiplier: ×5 to the crop’s sale value
How to Get the Rot Mutation 🪄
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Obtain and use the Mandrake Pet 🐾
Introduced during the Admin War / Beanstalk update. You can get the Mandrake pet from Skyroot Chests in the Friendship Shop, which unlocks after building friendship with the Goliath NPC.
Drop chance: Mandrake appears in Skyroot Chests with about a 34.5% chance. -
Plant and harvest Mandrake crops 🌿
With a Mandrake pet active in your garden, each time you harvest Mandrake there’s around a ~3% (up to ~3.57%) chance that a random plant in your garden receives the Rot Mutation.
Tips to Boost Your Odds 🎯
- Grow a lot of Mandrake—more harvests means more mutation rolls.
- Fill all pet slots with Mandrake pets to maximize mutation chances per harvest.
Quick Summary Table 📊
Feature | Details |
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Mutation Name | Rot Mutation |
Multiplier | ×5 sale value |
How to Get | Use Mandrake pet from Skyroot Chest; harvest Mandrake plants |
Mutation Chance | ~3% per Mandrake harvest (can be ~3.57%); better with more pets and plants |
Event Context | Introduced with the Admin War / Beanstalk update |
Event Context & Release Date 🗓️
The Admin War update (Beanstalk Event Part 2) introduced pets like Mandrake, along with the Rot Mutation. This rolled out around late August 2025 (notably around August 23, 2025).
Final Takeaway ✅
To unlock the Rot Mutation quickly:
- Farm Mandrake consistently.
- Get the Mandrake pet via Skyroot Chests in the Friendship Shop.
- Harvest as many Mandrake crops as possible—ideally with Mandrake pets filling your slots—to improve the ~3% mutation chance per harvest.
While the ×5 boost is great and accessible, rarer mutations can out-earn it later. Still, Rot is a solid, beginner-friendly way to ramp up profits early! 💪🪴