🆕 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 →

Storage Chest

Storage Chest

WorldObject

A container you can store items in.

Weight1000 gMax stack100StationWorkbench

Notes

The Storage Chest is a basic placed container with 16 storage slots and a 2x2x1 footprint, crafted at a workbench from raw materials. It fits in the early‑game as the player’s first dedicated storage, making it easier to organize materials before larger or powered storage options become available. For a practical tip, placing multiple chests inside a room helps raise your housing value (and thus your experience‑gain rate) because the game counts them as furniture — so storing your goods in a well‑furnished room benefits both organization and progression.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
IngredientQtyType
Wood10category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
MaterialQty / craft
Bio Residue0.2

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
Labor25 calories
Craft time1 min
Throughput60 Storage Chest / hour (base)

As a placed object

Size2×2×1
Viewer
Function
Storage16 slots

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

Steps1Total labor25 calTotal time1 min

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

Categories

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