Craftables · Farmer
Compost Bin
Turns pig dung into fertiliser for the fields — one recipe, two dung at a time, three and a half hours a run.
L$400
Citizens L$320 · save up to L$240 with a membership
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Watch it work
The product tutorial, start to finish.
Read it written up on the forum — the same walkthrough, with the numbers, and somewhere to ask.
The Compost Bin does exactly one thing, and it does it slowly. Two dung go in, one fertiliser comes out, and the run takes three and a half hours.
The dung comes off your pigs — you scoop it with a small basket, the same one you gather clay and fruit with. That is rather the point: the bin turns the least appealing thing on the parcel into the thing the fields want, from livestock you were keeping anyway.
Do the arithmetic before you commit. A hundred dung is fifty fertiliser and a little over a week of continuous running, so a serious garden wants the bin working while you are doing something else. Farmers bank the recipe and earn crafting experience for it; anyone else can still run the bin, but has to enter the ingredients by hand every time.
One warning: dung has a second buyer. The leather tanner needs one per animal hide and one per prepared hide, so if somebody in the colony is working leather, you are both reaching into the same pile.
What it makes
1 system recipe
Level 01 recipe
| Recipe | Makes | XP | Time | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fertilizer | 1 | 10 | 3h 30m |
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System recipes only. Recipes invented by players at open stations belong to the colonists who created them and are not listed.