Waste Filter

WorldObject

Treats raw sewage.

Notes

The Waste Filter is a placed 3×3×3 object that treats raw sewage, converting it into less harmful byproducts. It can be toggled on and off like other industrial machines, and must be placed grid-aligned in your settlement's infrastructure. To minimize ground and water pollution, set up Waste Filters near high-output sewage sources and keep them powered and running as your population grows.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Talents

Improved Assembly (Mechanics Lv 6)

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Steel Bar	8	item
Cement	8	item
Gearbox	4	item
Piston	2	item
Basic Circuit	4	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Iron Scrap	1.47
Ceramic Scrap	0.06
Copper Scrap	0.06
Gold Scrap	0.06
Bio Residue	0.03
Crushed Mixed Rock	0.03

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	480 calories
Craft time	20 min
Throughput	≈ 3 Waste Filter / hour (base)

As a placed object

Requires connection ports — highlighted below.

Recycling & waste

• 18.4× Iron Scrap
• 0.8× Ceramic Scrap
• 0.8× Copper Scrap
• 0.8× Gold Scrap
• 0.4× Bio Residue
• 0.4× Crushed Mixed Rock

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

• 180× Limestone
• 156.25× Iron Ore
• 125× Gold Ore
• 67.67× Wood (any)
• 35× Copper Ore
• 31.67× Quicklime
• 30× Cement
• 20.05× Clay
• 16× Wood Board (any)
• 2× Medium Carcass (any)
• 1.33× Steel Bar
• 0.91× Silica (any)

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

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• World Object

Obtained from

• Waste Filter

See also

Advanced Carpentry TableAdvanced Masonry TableAdvanced Tailoring TableAnvilArrastraAshlar Basalt Fireplace

Where the town's filth pools, the Waste Filter hums, turning raw sewage back into water the land can forgive.