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Brotato Fertilizer

Tier 1 item · 22 builds in our database

Fertilizer boosts your Harvesting by +8 while reducing your Melee Damage by 1. It's a solid choice for players focusing on resource collection early in the game.

Item Stats

Harvesting+8
Melee Damage-1

Meta Usage

tracked builds (curated + per-character meta) include Fertilizer

Auto-Tier

From usage frequency across our build pool, weighted by difficulty

Top characters

Most often: Fisherman

When to buy Fertilizer

Pick Fertilizer if you're playing characters like Speedy or Curious that benefit from increased Harvesting. It works well in builds aiming for high resource generation, especially if you plan to stack Harvesting.

When to skip Fertilizer

Avoid this item if you're focusing on a high-damage melee build or using characters with negative scaling on Harvesting, as the Melee Damage penalty can hinder your effectiveness.

Items most often combined with Fertilizer

Calculated from 22 builds in our database that ship Fertilizer. Higher % = more consistent synergy.

Best characters for Fertilizer

Characters that pick up Fertilizer in our curated build pool — with notes on why the combo works where we have them.

Fisherman

2 builds

Fertilizer is a cheap, early way to stack more harvesting on top of Fisherman’s innate bonuses. The small melee damage penalty is easily offset in Spear builds, while the extra income accelerates Bait purchases and shop scaling.

Romantic

2 builds

Fertilizer boosts harvesting early, improving Romantic’s economy and helping you afford key cursed and defensive items while having no downside to a pure ranged SMG setup.

Vampire

1 build

Fertilizer gives early Harvesting to snowball your economy on the Armored Vampire build. Losing a bit of melee damage is acceptable because Vampire's missing HP damage bonus and later scaling more than make up for it.

Well Rounded

2 builds

Fertilizer stacks directly with Well Rounded's base +8 Harvesting, making it easy to hit the early 21+ Harvesting breakpoint and snowball your economy without caring about the small melee penalty in a ranged build.

Curious

2 builds

Fertilizer offers an efficient early-game harvesting boost at the cost of a small amount of melee damage. With Curious’s strong XP and item scaling, this early eco push quickly snowballs into more rerolls, items, and level ups.