🆕 Updated for Eco 14 — “Garbage & Recycling” — this server and these numbers now reflect the new version. What changed →
  • Byproducts: nearly every recipe now leaves waste behind, so recipe pages list byproducts alongside ingredients.
  • Garbage & recycling: waste sorts from mixed garbage down to pure materials, and can be recycled back into stock.
  • Pollution has four kinds: acid rain, chemical, soil and heavy mineral, each settling into the ground differently. Pollution guide →
  • Modules reworked: upgrades are now Basic / Advanced / Modern / Specialty, one per slot, driving the same bonus system as talents. Module guide →
  • Fresh water: machines need it — water drawn from the ocean has to be desalinated first.

The character calculator has been updated for these changes. Read the garbage & recycling guide →

Advanced Upgrade

Advanced Upgrade

Efficiency Modules

Advanced Upgrade that increases crafting efficiency.

Weight1000 gMax stack100SkillSelf Improvement Lv 1StationLaboratory

Notes

The Advanced Upgrade is an Efficiency Module that increases crafting efficiency at a workstation. It belongs to the family of general-purpose upgrades (Basic, Modern, Advanced) that replaced the old numbered tier system in Update 14, so its effect is read from its own description rather than assumed as a flat percentage. Placing one requires the station to sit inside a room of sufficient material tier.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

⚙ Craft calculator — adjust for your modules, skill & talents
Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Ingredients

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
MaterialQty / craft
Garbage0.28
Bio Residue0.16

Approximate โ€” a category ingredient's salvage value depends on the item actually used.

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled โ€” see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor3000 calories
Craft time6 min
Throughput10 Advanced Upgrade / hour (base)

As an upgrade module

SlotAdvancedInstall cost1 starRoom tier+1Needs powerMechanical · 80 W

How the Update 14 module system works

Recycling & waste

Salvages into (per unit)

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Steps71Total labor35217.83 calTotal time632.11 min

Approximate โ€” category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

Obtained from

See also