🆕 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 →

Compost

Compost

Delicious decomposed organic matter that can be used to fertilze crops. Compost is created overtime when organic material is left outdoors to decompose. This is accomplished in Eco by dropping an organic item on the ground and overtime it will become Compost.

Weight30000 gMax stack10Carried on backSkillRecycling Lv 1StationFarmers Table

Notes

Compost is a solid, diggable block produced when organic material is left outdoors to decompose over time. It is used as an ingredient in making Compost Fertilizer and Black Powder. To generate compost passively, drop unwanted organic items on the ground outdoors and wait for them to break down, then dig up the resulting compost block.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
IngredientQtyType
Bio Residue1item

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor20 calories
Craft time1 min
Throughput60 Compost / hour (base)

As a block

SolidDiggableWall

Recycling & waste

As a garbage material
FamilyMixed ResidualsResidual (terminal leftover)

Recycled from

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Steps1Total labor20 calTotal time1 min

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