GlymeraComposter - Compost Organic Waste into Living Soil
A charming two-block composter. Drop plant and animal material into the top, and it slowly turns into Fertile Earth in the bottom - a special soil that makes crops grow far faster (until it wears out). Feed it by hand or wire it into your Bluestone for a fully automatic soil farm.
Pure server-side plugin - no client mod required.
What is GlymeraComposter?
GlymeraComposter adds a two-block-tall composter bin with a custom 3D model. The top half is an input, the bottom half an output - each a full double-chest of space. Throw in anything organic and the composter processes it bit by bit into Fertile Earth, a consumable fast-growth soil. Common greenery is cheap bulk; rarer materials are worth far more. Everything is configurable, and the whole thing plugs straight into Bluestone hoppers and pipes.
How It Works
- Place the composter (it needs 2 blocks of vertical space).
- Put organic material into the top bin - by hand, or via a hopper above.
- The composter processes one item every few seconds; the rarer the material, the more of a batch it fills.
- Collect Fertile Earth from the bottom - by hand, or via a hopper/pipe below or to the side.
Right-click either half to open it (no Bluestone required). Only the player who placed a composter (the owner) and server operators can break it. The composter never touches a container while someone has it open, so it is dupe-safe.
Fertile Earth - the fast-growth soil
The composter's default output is Fertile Earth, a special soil:
- Plant straight onto it - no hoe needed; normal crops grow right away.
- Much faster growth - the soil keeps itself permanently watered and fertilized, so crops race through their stages.
- It wears out - Fertile Earth is a consumable boost. After about 6 hours of loaded time (+/-10%) it dries into plain dry mud. Only time while the chunk is actually loaded counts - leaving the area or logging off pauses the clock, so it never decays while nobody is around.
- Prefer something else? Switch the output in the config to vanilla Fertilizer Bags, Crystal Earth, or any item id you like.
Crafting Recipe
| Input |
Bench |
Output |
| 5x Stick + 1x Carrot + 1x Cauliflower + 1x Cotton |
Farmer Workbench (maximum upgrade tier only) |
1x Composter |
The recipe can be turned off in the config.
Eats almost anything organic
680+ items are recognized: crops, fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, cacti, flowers, grass, leaves, moss, seaweed, raw & cooked meat, fish, eggs, manure, bonemeal, leather, hide, feathers and much more. Inorganic items are simply ignored.
Configuration
Generated at first startup: mods/de.glymera_GlymeraComposter/config.json (reload live with /gcomp reload).
| Setting |
Default |
Description |
processIntervalSeconds |
15 |
Seconds between processing one organic item |
outputItemId |
GlymeraFertileEarth |
What a finished batch produces (any block/item id) |
fertileLifetimeHours |
6.0 |
Loaded-only lifetime before Fertile Earth dries to mud |
fertileLifetimeJitterPercent |
10.0 |
+/- random spread around the lifetime, per block |
fertileCheckIntervalSeconds |
30 |
How often the wear timer ticks (loaded chunks only) |
fertileMaxPerTick |
1000 |
Blocks processed per wear tick (flat performance at any scale) |
autoWater / autoFertilize |
true |
Keep Fertile Earth permanently watered / fertilized |
recipeEnabled |
true |
Whether the composter is craftable |
protectionEnabled |
true |
Only the owner and operators can break a composter |
The percentage each rarity tier fills, the working effect, plus an extraOrganics list (add your own items) and a blacklist (remove any) are all tunable too.
Commands
/gcomp give - give yourself a Composter (OP)/gcomp givesoil - give yourself Fertile Earth (OP)/gcomp reload - reload config & catalog (OP)/gcomp info - placed count and current settings/gcomp fertcheck - diagnose the nearest Fertile Earth block (OP)
Features
- Custom 3D models & icons - a proper composter bin and a distinct Fertile Earth block
- Fertile Earth - plant-ready fast-growth soil that wears out over loaded time
- 680+ organic inputs with configurable rarity values
- Hand-operated and automation-ready - works standalone or with Bluestone hoppers/pipes
- Owner & OP protection and dupe-safe container handling
- Living compost effect rising from the open top while material is inside
- Lightweight - the wear timer spreads its work across ticks, staying cheap at any scale
Installation
- Place
GlymeraComposter-2.0.0.jar in your server's mods/ folder
- Start (or restart) the server
- Done!
Made with care by Glymera for the Hytale community
