Cotton Lint

A bundle of cotton used as stuffing or further tailoring processing.

Notes

Cotton Lint is a processed fiber bundle obtained by ginning raw cotton (most likely using a Cotton Gin), serving as an intermediary between the raw harvest and finished textile goods. It has no direct use beyond being refined into Cotton Thread at a Spinning Wheel or similar station, where thread is the fundamental input for all fabric and clothing crafting. When storing or trading lint, remember its lightweight nature (100 g per unit) makes it efficient to transport in bulk.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

⚙ Craft calculator — adjust for your modules, skill & talents

▶ Open the full recipe page

Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Basic (none)Basic Upgrade (−10% cost · −5% labor · −25% time)Advanced (none)Advanced Upgrade (−10% cost · −10% labor · −35% time)Modern (none)Modern Upgrade (−15% cost · −10% labor · −50% time)Specialty (none)Gathering Basic Upgrade (−5% cost · −25% time)

Gathering level 0Skill level changes labor only.Reset to base

Quantity to craftScales ingredients, labor, time, output & total raw by the number of crafts.

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Cotton Boll	4	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Bio Residue	0.03

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

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	35 calories
Craft time	1 min
Throughput	≈ 60 Cotton Lint / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 0.3× Bio Residue

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

Recompute for my setup

• 4× Cotton Boll

Categories

• Ingredient
• Product

Obtained from

• Cotton Lint

Used in

• Cotton Thread

See also

AcornAdobeAdvanced CircuitAdvanced Combustion EngineAgave LeavesAgave Seed

Soft, fibrous, and clean. The first step from field to fabric.