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🆕 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 →

Modern Shovel

Tool

Terraforming is the first step towards a flourishing civilization and now you can do it with style and less repairs.

Weight1000 gMax stack1SkillBlacksmith Lv 5StationPower Hammer

Notes

The Modern Shovel is a tier 4 excavation tool used for terraforming and digging, offering high durability (4000 uses) and a reduced need for repairs compared to lower-tier shovels. It consumes 20 calories per use and deals minor damage, making it inefficient for combat. A practical tip: because it can be recycled into a Scrap Tool, consider scrapping a worn Modern Shovel to recover some materials rather than letting it break completely.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Basic Advanced Modern Specialty

Blacksmith level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Garden Tools (Blacksmith Lv 6)

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

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
Ingredient	Qty	Type
Fiberglass	20	item
Steel Bar	25	item
Synthetic Rubber	2	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
Material	Qty / craft
Plastic Scrap	0.64
Iron Scrap	0.64
Glass Scrap	0.32
Chemical Waste	0.02

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	1000 calories
Craft time	0.5 min
Throughput	≈ 120 Modern Shovel / hour (base)

As a tool

Tier4Damage1Vs animals×0.2Calories/use20Durability/use1Max durability4000

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

Steps47Total labor50286.78 calTotal time538.31 min

650× Limestone
322.97× Silica (any)
257.5× Iron Ore
221.67× Wood (any)
156.67× Crushed Limestone
100.8× Clay
93.75× Quicklime
4.17× Steel Bar

Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

Obtained from

Modern Shovel

See also