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  • 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 →

Corn

Corn

A warmly colored kernel studded vegetable.

Weight125 gMax stack100Food230 calCompostableCrop

Notes

Corn is a basic crop grown from seed that provides moderate nutrition, with carbs, vitamins, and protein but no fat, making it a useful ingredient for balancing a varied diet when paired with fatty or protein-rich foods. It is a common raw food used in many early-to-mid game recipes such as cornmeal, corn ethanol, and baked corn, and also appears in basic and advanced research papers. As a compostable crop with a 96-hour shelf life, it fits well into a farming rotation and can be sold or stored to support cooking and industrial crafting chains.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

Nutrition

Calories230Shelf life96 h
Carbs4
Protein1
Fat0
Vitamins3

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 total8Balanced-diet ××0.5Variety ××1Tastiness ××1Skill-gain rate16

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

Categories

Found in the wild

Used in

Bakery Oven
Campfire
Cast Iron Stove
Farmers Table
Fiber Scutching Station
Industrial Mill
Laboratory
Mill
Research Table
Stove

See also