Primitive Dump

WorldObject

A crude open dump for garbage. It holds a lot, but nothing stops the waste from seeping into the ground.

Notes

The Primitive Dump is a crude, low-tech waste storage block that holds a large volume of garbage but offers no containment — waste seeps directly into the ground, creating ground pollution. It occupies a 4x4x3 footprint and is built via its own recipe, making it an early stopgap before proper waste-processing solutions are available. Because it does not stop pollution, you should plan to replace it with sorted, enclosed storage or a recycling setup as soon as your industry allows.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Wood	20	category
Wood Board	10	category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Bio Residue	≈ 0.4
Wood Scrap	≈ 0.32

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

Crafting stats

Labor	250 calories
Craft time	3 min
Throughput	≈ 20 Primitive Dump / hour (base)

As a placed object

Recycling & waste

• 1.5× Wood Scrap

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

• 20× Wood (any)
• 10× Wood Board (any)

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

Categories

• Product
• Storage Container
• Usable
• World Object

Obtained from

• Primitive Dump

See also

Ashlar Basalt FireplaceAshlar Gneiss FireplaceAshlar Granite FireplaceAshlar Limestone FireplaceAshlar Sandstone FireplaceAshlar Shale Fireplace

Pitted earth, black rot, and the slow poison of a thousand cast-off things.