Composter

Turns dung, plant fiber and farm scraps into fertilizer for your planters. Cheap and benchless, and only worth floor space if your group really farms.

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Characteristics

Category: Items

Stack size: 1

Durability: 100

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 10 Scrap

Health: 500

Overview

In-game description

Produces fertilizer from compostable items.

Feed it what your farm throws away and it hands back fertilizer. That is the whole job. Dung from a horse, plant fiber from crops that died and other compostable leftovers go in, and fertilizer comes out to raise the ground condition in your planters.

It costs little. There is no workbench, nothing to research since every player has the recipe from the start, and it takes the same two tarps and 200 wood as a large planter box. The tarps are the only snag on a fresh wipe: nobody can craft them, so they come from loot or the recycler.

Picture a roof farm of hemp and corn where the water ran out overnight. Half the plants are dead by morning. Their fiber goes straight into the composter beside the planters instead of clogging your inventory, and the replant starts on better ground.

A solo with one planter can skip it. For a group that grows its own cloth and food, it turns rubbish into the next harvest.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Satchel Charge cheapest	2	960
Beancan Grenade	8	960
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo	50–56	1,250–1,400
Timed Explosive Charge	1	2,200
High Velocity Rocket	12	2,400
Rocket	2	2,800
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	23	300
Propane Explosive Bomb	2	1,800
Mortar Shell	6	1,800
Survey Charge	36	2,160
Homing Missile	42	4,200
MLRS Rocket	2	—
40mm HE Grenade	8	—
Hammerhead Bolt	20	—

Direct hit, hard side, no duds. Satchel Charge is a dud 20% of the time. Beancan Grenade is a dud 15% of the time. A range runs from point blank to the far end of the bullet's falloff, fired from an Assault Rifle.