🆕 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 →

Basic Salad

Basic Salad

A seemingly random assortment of wild plants that form a sort of salad.

Weight300 gMax stack100Food800 calCompostableSkillCooking Lv 1StationCast Iron Stove

Notes

Basic Salad is a simple food crafted from wild plants, providing 800 calories with a modest balance of carbs and vitamins. It is used as an ingredient in advanced salads like Crimson Salad and Sweet Salad, as well as in Culinary Research Paper Advanced. While it can be eaten directly for early nutrition, its main value is as a craftable base for higher-tier recipes or composted when expired.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

Nutrition

Calories800Shelf life72 h
Carbs18
Protein6
Fat4
Vitamins10

Diet & XP

Eating doesn't change a food's calories or nutrition — those are fixed. What your diet changes is your skill-gain rate (XP). This estimates the rate this food's nutrients contribute. ≈ estimate; set your diet in the ⚙ Character panel.

Nutrient total38Balanced-diet ××0.72Variety ××1Tastiness ××1Skill-gain rate39.44

Base: this food alone (+12 base gain). Craving & dinner-party bonuses are situational (assumed ×1).

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

Steps1Total labor25 calTotal time4 min

Categories

Obtained from

Used in

Cast Iron Stove
Kitchen
Research Table

See also