Compost Bin

Compost Bin
Vital statistics
Size	1 x 1
Skill(s) RequiredSpecific needed skills.<br>The default skills every hearthling starts off with, Oral Tradition, Primitive Tools & Wilderness Survival), are ignored.	Carpentry, Farming, Gardening
Object(s) Required	Board x6, Block of Wood x4, Bone Glue x2
Required By	(1) Mulch
Can be Lifted	Yes
Has Quality	Yes
Hit Points	150
Soak Value	None
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Build > Production & Processing > Compost Bin

The compost bin allows you to turn compostable materials into Mulch, which acts like soil. It has a meter indicating how much compost material it contains (max 2000 units of compost), as well as a 5x5 inventory grid where mulch is outputted. A fully filed compost bin can return 100 units of mulch. Earthworms can also be placed in the inventory to slightly speed up the process (20 worms, vs no worms, give a general speed of around 200%.)

Compostable Items

• Swill 1 Liter (+100)
  • See swill page for additional compostable items (Swill/compost=1/100)
  • So a Head of Lettuce which gives 0.33 swill, will give 33 compost units.

• Any edible food
• Any tree or bush seed
• Any Crop Seeds (+2)
• Bones (+10)
• Cattail Fibres (+5)
• Entrails (+10)
• Feathers (+5)
• Finer Plant Fibres (+5)
• Flowers
• Fresh Leaf of Pipeweed (+10) or Cured Pipeweed (+10)
• Hop Cones (+5)
• Intestines (+5)
• Raw Meat (+10)
• Wildfibres (+3)

Quality

• Compost Bin Quality = ${\frac {_{q}AvgBoard+_{q}AvgBlock+_{q}AvgGlue}{3}}$
• The quality of the Compost Bin Softcaps the quality of the produced Mulch.

Notes

• Earthworms or Wood Incorrupt(pretty rare) may occasionally spawn together with the produced Mulch.
• Adding Earthworms to the compost bin inventory speeds up the production of Mulch.
  • With zero worms 1 mulch take around 4 hours. With 20 worms this goes down to around 2 hours. (~-6 minutes per worm) (production time has some random offset)
• It takes 20 Compost/(0.20 Swill) to generate 1 mulch.
  • One bucket of swill fills half the compost bin.
  • One bucket of crop-seeds(1000) fully fills an empty compost bin.
• When the compost bin inventory is full. The last produced mulch will be discarded, at which point the mulch production also stops.
  • Production continues again after removing something from the compost bin inventory.
• (winter) An active compost bin is also a heat source. And will melt snow around it in a circle of 4.5 tiles.

• Stacking: To directly get all worms into your inventory in stacked form. Use "stack all" on the worms inside the compost bin. (The other ways of getting all worms out the compost bin don't auto-stack the worms.) ... (Mulch in non stackable)
  • Turning mulch into soil (when deemed useful, as soil stacks very nicely) is relative easy. (survey + good quality metal shovel. Best used with some digging pit (see gallery).)

Gallery

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  Digging pit example.

Game Development

• Market Garden (2016-10-05)◎ >"Added Compost Bin. Fill a Compost Bin with compostable materials and, after some time, retrieve Mulch instead. Mulch functions as soil."