Peanuts
"EVERYTHING IS PEANUTS." —Blaseball Ticker, Season 3.
Peanuts are an item available to Blaseball participants, as well as a major element of the game during the events of Season 3, such as a game-changing incident, a weather type, a player hazard, and more.
Peanuts were first introduced as a Season 2 decree that was available to be voted on, called Peanuts, with a description that simply said, "Peanuts." This decree won the election with 25% of the vote, and announcement of the decree's victory immediately caused the Peanut Plague[1], a Blaseball-wide event that had permanent consequences on the game. (This ominous event is similar to Season 1's Open The Forbidden Book decree.)
Peanuts as Item[2]
Starting at Day 1 of Season 3, participants were able to purchase peanuts at the Shop. The peanuts were tracked with an inventory icon, exactly like coins and vote tickets. Initially, the price of peanuts were a value & quantity that changed throughout the day, and always at a 1:1 ratio, such as 1 peanut for 1 coin, or 2 peanuts for 2 coins.
Using Peanuts
Participants can "use" peanuts by clicking on them, and presumably consuming them, with dialogue text such as "CRACK IT OPEN NOW." The peanut icon will fly out and crack across the participants' Blaseball monitor.
It is unclear what the effect of consuming a peanut is, since there is no immediately observable effect. However, prior to the Blasphemy event, the Blaseball ticker did display a seemingly accurate count, with a message such as:
"WE HAVE EATEN 38356 COLLECTIVE PEANUTS"
This indicates that all peanut consumption is probably recorded and is probably significant.
Negative Peanuts
Negative quantities are also possible, such as the Shop offering -2 peanuts for -2 coins. This deducts peanuts from the participant's total (even beyond 0) and adds coins to their inventory. Initially, negative peanuts could also be "consumed" to gain coins, but this interaction was removed after the Blasphemy event, during which the umpires accused some participants of "Peanut Fraud"—hacking or otherwise taking advantage of the Blaseball system in order to horde an ungodly number of coins.
Squirrel of Devouring
See the main article for the Squirrel of Devouring.
Starting at Day 1 of Season 3, participants were able to purchase a Squirrel of Devouring at the Shop for 200 coins. The item description states: "Recruit a Peanut-hungry squirrel to your side, to help you eat Peanuts faster." Each squirrel purchased increases peanut consumption by one per click, allowing 2 or more peanuts to be consumed per click.
Peanuts as Weather
Starting at the opening pitch of Season 3, every match took place in a new weather condition simply called, "Peanuts." During this weather condition, peanuts will continuously rain from the sky, pelt the Blaseball players, and occasionally and inevitably land in a player's mouth.
Allergic Reactions and Yummy Reactions
See also: List of Allergic Reactions & Yummy Reactions in Season 3.
Blaseball players who are playing a match in Peanut weather will run the risk of consuming a peanut, and then experiencing either an allergic reaction or a yummy reaction before the end of the match. An allergic reaction causes the player's stats to decrease at the end of the match. A yummy reaction causes the player's stats to increase at the end of the match. It has been observed that every player's ultimate reaction to peanuts is an inborn trait, and is not random.
A causal link has been observed between participants consuming peanut items during their favorite team's game, and one player in that game experiencing an allergic or yummy reaction.
Peanuts as Punishment
Peanut Fraud and Blasphemy
The introduction of peanuts caused a period of turmoil in the Blaseball economy, leading to the Peanut Fraud, and subsequently the Blasphemy incident.
Early in Season 3, Blaseball officials announced that "THERE ARE PEANUT CHEATERS AMONG US," and "THE SITE WILL NOT RETURN UNTIL THE PEANUT CHEATERS HAVE REPENTED." This began a brief yet unexpected period in which participants were unable to watch or bet on Blaseball games. Officials further demanded that the "CHEATERS [MUST] CONFESS" or else the "SITE WILL NOT RETURN."
Though the alleged cheaters did not come forward, the Blaseball games returned regardless, with officials citing that "BLASEBALL IS INEVITABLE."
23 minutes later, the officials announced: "MORE PEANUT CHEATERS. GOODBYE" and once again removed access to Blaseball games, instead replacing it with Blasphemy.
Aftermath of Blasphemy
After the Blasphemy incident, peanuts were no longer available to purchase in the small, varying amounts observed earlier. Instead, the listing in the shop stated: "Purchase a bucket of 1000000 peanuts," with a price of 1000000 Coins, making them by far the most expensive item to date, and virtually unattainable. There has been no known records of any participant to successfully and legitimately purchase the bucket of peanuts.
Additionally, the Blaseball ticker that displayed a running count of collective peanut consumption now displayed the following taunt:
"WE HAVE EATEN -INFINITY COLLECTIVE PEANUTS."
Many fans lamented this as pulling all Blaseball players and participants further away from "atonement."
Dan-Peanut Replacement
Upon enactment of the decree at the end of Season 2, all players named Dan or Daniel had the "Dan" in their names replaced with "Peanut." There were no other apparent changes to these players, star rating or otherwise. The players affected were:
- Peanut Holloway (formerly Dan Holloway)
- Peanutiel Duffy (formerly Daniel Duffy)
- Peanut Bong (formerly Dan Bong)
Fans have debated if these alterations to Blaseball players truly counts as "punishment," although it is reasonable to assume that the former-Dans do consider it to be some form of punishment.
Peanuts as Prophesy
Peanuts are explicitly mentioned in section 5e of The Book of Blaseball[3], suggesting some significance related to the collection or consumption of "one million Peanuts." Following the decree, the text in the book pertaining to peanuts had the word "atone" revealed where it was previously redacted. The text in the Book currently reads:
"e. If at any time, ████████████ atone ████████████ one million Peanuts."
Because of this revelation, it is speculated that the consumption of one million Peanuts is part of the atonement for the opening of The Forbidden Book. This may be what the ticker text "THE FIRST LABOUR" refers to, but this is currently only fan speculation.
Gallery
The Decree for Peanuts as seen in Season Two. The icon provided is currently the only official depiction of what the Peanuts may resemble.
Results of the Decree for Peanuts
Peanuts at the purchase price of 1000000
