🆕 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 →

Tallow

Tallow

Rendered animal fat useful for more than just cooking.

Weight100 gMax stack100Fuel2000Food200 calCompostableSkillCampfire CookingStationCampfire

Notes

Tallow is rendered animal fat used as a fuel, a cooking ingredient, and a source of dietary fat. It burns for 2000 fuel units in campfires and kilns, and appears in many recipes from Bannock to Biodiesel and Grease. Because it contains only fat (8 units) with no other nutrients, eating it raw gives a poor nutrition balance—use it as an ingredient in mixed dishes to get the most XP benefit from your diet.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

Nutrition

Calories200Shelf life288 h
Carbs0
Protein0
Fat8
Vitamins0

Diet & XP

Eating doesn't change a food's calories or nutrition — those are fixed. What your diet changes is your skill-gain rate (XP). This estimates the rate this food's nutrients contribute. ≈ estimate; set your diet in the ⚙ Character panel.

Nutrient total8Balanced-diet ××0.5Variety ××1Tastiness ××1Skill-gain rate16

Base: this food alone (+12 base gain). Craving & dinner-party bonuses are situational (assumed ×1).

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

Obtained from

Bakery Oven
Butchery Table
Campfire
Cast Iron Stove

Used in

Bakery Oven
Blacksmith Table
Butchery Table
Campfire
Farmers Table
Kiln
Oil Refinery
Stove

See also