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  • Byproducts: nearly every recipe now leaves waste behind, so recipe pages list byproducts alongside ingredients.
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Light Backpack

Light Backpack

Smaller than your standard three-day backpack. You can't fit that much inside, but that makes you more agile.

Weight100 gMax stack1SkillTailoring Lv 3StationTailoring Table

Notes

The Light Backpack is a clothing item that increases your movement speed and adds 5 kg to your maximum carry weight, making it a useful early mobility upgrade for hauling resources. It is crafted from a single recipe and weighs only 100 g, though it does not stack in inventory. Because it boosts both speed and carry capacity, equipping one is a practical first step before investing in heavier storage solutions.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
IngredientQtyType
Cellulose Fiber20item
Fabric20category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
MaterialQty / craft
Bio Residue0.64
Textiles0.32

Approximate โ€” 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 โ€” see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor600 calories
Craft time2 min
Throughput30 Light Backpack / hour (base)

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

Steps2Total labor1800 calTotal time22 min

Approximate โ€” category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

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