Gathering Basic Upgrade
Basic Upgrade that greatly increases efficiency when crafting Gathering recipes.
Notes
The Gathering Basic Upgrade is an efficiency module that reduces both resource cost and craft time for Gathering recipes when installed in a compatible crafting station's module slot. As a Basic Upgrade, it works in any room regardless of tier, making it an early accessible improvement—but its benefit is capped at roughly 10% per level (totaling about 25% across all five quality levels after recent balancing). Use it on stations you craft Gathering items at frequently to save materials and labor.
Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.
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Ingredients
| Ingredient | Qty | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | category | |
| 10 | category |
Byproducts (garbage)
| Material | Qty / craft |
|---|---|
| ≈ 0.2 | |
| ≈ 0.16 | |
| ≈ 0.04 |
Approximate — 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 — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.
Crafting
| Labor | 3000 calories |
|---|---|
| Craft time | 10 min |
| Throughput | ≈ 6 Gathering Basic Upgrade / hour (base) |
As an upgrade module
- -5% Resource Cost when crafting with Gathering.
- -25% Craft Time when crafting with Gathering.
How the Update 14 module system works
Recycling & waste
1× Garbage
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
20× Natural Fiber (any)
10× Crop (any)
Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.