The Ham Bat is a Melee Weapon. It spoils after 10 days and has unlimited uses during this period. Despite being made out of meat, it cannot be eaten by the player or other mobs and will not anger a Bunnyman when in the player's possession.
Ham Bat's damage will now decrease as the weapon spoils. The highest damage is 59.5 when fresh, and the damage decreases by about 0.37 per minute or 2.975 per day until it reaches its lowest damage of 29.75, just before turning into Rot. It becomes weaker than a Tentacle Spike after 2.86 days, weaker than a Battle Spear after 5.71 days, and on the 8.67th day, it's about as powerful as a Spear.
In Don't Starve Together, Skins can be applied to certain items to change their appearance. Information on how to obtain specific skins can be found on the Belongings page.
The Woven - Elegant Pugna's Ham Bat skin was introduced during the official The Forge event in 2017.
The Woven - Elegant Pot Roastbat skin was introduced during the official The Gorge event in 2018.
The Loyal Fishy Bat skin was awarded for watching 6 hours of Don't Starve Together on Twitch from August 12, 2021 to August 26, 2021.
Woven - Elegant Pot Roastbat Delicious, delicious murder. See ingame
Woven - Elegant Pugna's Ham Bat This ham bat was fashioned after the scepter of the great Battlemaster Pugna. See ingame
Loyal Fishy Bat This portly pufferfish is trying to pass itself off as pork. See ingame
Tips
Having four spare Monster Meat, feeding them to a Pig (resulting in it turning into a Werepig) and then slaying the Werepig can result in the player receiving all of the necessary ingredients needed for crafting, excluding the Twigs. One alternative is to feed meat to a single Pig and select a neutral Pig as an attack target; this will cause surrounding neutral Pigs to become aggressive towards the player's Pig follower and kill it, causing it to drop resources.
The unlimited uses make it ideal for dealing damage to mobs and entities that don't fight back, like Spider Dens and Snurtles.
It is also an efficient weapon against Bosses due to their large Health pools.
It's more effective to craft the Ham Bat in Winter because during that season spoilage rate is reduced by 25%.
The Ham Bat can be crafted from spoiled meat and will be fully fresh when crafted. This makes it handy to be crafted right before a fight.
Player can use a Bundling Wrap to contain and preserve large amounts of Meat for indefinite time, allowing them to always have the possibility of crafting Ham Bats without the need of hunting for Meat beforehand
The Ham Bat makes an appearance as the Ham Shank in the popular online first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 to promote Don't Starve shortly before its release (along with the Wilson weave). It was awarded in Genuine quality to those who pre-purchased Don't Starve before April 23, 2013.
The Ham Bat was the second renewable melee-weapon in the game, after the Dark Sword.
Before the first "Bugfix/Performance" update, the Ham Bat used to be an edible Monster Food item and had 100 uses, in addition to spoiling over time.