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Composter

Two tarps and 200 wood, no bench, no blueprint to learn. The same two tarps would make a large planter, and that choice is the whole craft.

Data: Rust build 2026-10-02

Item details

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Summary

Wood
×200
Craft time
15 s
Workbench
None
Research
10 Scrap

Resources

Crafting tree

Composter ×1

Crafting chain

Item Crafts × yield Left over
Composter15 s · None 1 × 1 —

About this craft

Every composter is a large planter you chose not to build. Both take the same two tarps and the same wood, and tarps are what a young farm runs short of. Nine seeds in the ground grow cloth and food; the composter only turns waste into fertilizer, and a farm of one or two boxes makes little waste.

So build planters first, and the composter once a whole row of them leaves dead plants and spare crops behind. Everyone knows the recipe from the start and it needs no bench, which makes it easy to craft too early.

The unfolded calculator prices the tarps as cloth at a Level 2 bench. That line is fiction: tarps are never crafted, and every one comes from road loot, the recycler or a trade.

Tip

A composter you no longer need belongs in the recycler. The ordinary one returns a tarp every time, and that is already a small planter.

Questions

Composter ×10: how many resources?

Wood ×2,000, Tarp ×20.

Which workbench does Composter need?

None: it is crafted by hand.

How long does Composter take to craft?

15 s for one, every step included.

How much scrap does researching Composter take?

10 scrap for every blueprint in the chain.

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Quick facts

Category
Items
Stack size
1
Yield per craft
1
Workbench
None
Research
10 Scrap