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  • 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.
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Wooden Dumpster

Wooden Dumpster

WorldObject

A larger storage for garbage but is not entirely secure.

Weight2000 gMax stack1SkillCarpentry Lv 2StationCarpentry Table

Notes

The Wooden Dumpster is a placed storage container designed specifically for garbage, offering a larger capacity than smaller bins but described as "not entirely secure," meaning it may not fully prevent ground pollution from leaking out while waste sits inside. It occupies a 2x2x3 footprint and is crafted at a workbench using the Wooden Dumpster recipe. For practical use, place dumpsters in a designated collection area to centralize garbage, but plan to sort and process the waste promptly since imperfect containment can allow contamination to spread over time.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
IngredientQtyType
Dowel20item
Iron Bar2item
Wood Board30category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
MaterialQty / craft
Wood Scrap1.12
Iron Scrap0.03

Approximate โ€” 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 โ€” see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor600 calories
Craft time4 min
Throughput15 Wooden Dumpster / hour (base)

As a placed object

Size2×2×3
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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

Steps6Total labor772.5 calTotal time5.69 min

Approximate โ€” category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

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See also

A plain wooden coop for the town's worst habits โ€” no one guards it, but its gaps and smells guard it well.