Simple Compost adds upgradeable compost bins that turn your spare vegetables into fertilizer. The bin fills up visually as you add ingredients — once it's full, composting starts automatically, and a short wait later your fertilizer is ready to harvest with a single click.
How It Works
Craft a Compost Bin at the Farming Bench (requires tier 2).
Place it anywhere in your world — it rotates to face you, just like a bench.
Fill it by interacting (F) while holding vegetables. A quick tap adds one; hold the button to bulk-fill from the whole stack. The basic bin needs 4 vegetables.
Wait for composting to finish — just 60 seconds for the basic bin.
Harvest with a click and collect your Compost Fertilizer.
Interact with an empty hand at any time to check the bin's status — how full it is, or how many seconds of composting remain.
Tier Progression
Upgrade a bin in place by interacting with it while it's empty and idle:
Basic → Stone: hold Cobblestone and interact
Stone → Copper: hold a Copper Bar and interact
Bigger bins hold more, compost faster, and yield more per harvest:
Tier Capacity Compost Time Yield
Basic 4 vegetables 60s 1 Fertilizer
Stone 12 vegetables ~36s 3 Fertilizer
Copper 24 vegetables ~18s 6 Fertilizer
Each tier has its own textures and break sounds. Bins keep their tier when broken and re-placed, so you can move them around freely.
Stirring
In a hurry? Stir a composting bin by tapping it with a Crude Shovel to knock 5 seconds off the timer. The compost needs a few seconds to settle between stirs — an attentive farmer can roughly halve the wait.
Fruit Scroll
Bins only accept vegetables by default. Craft a Fruit Scroll at the Farming Bench (tier 3) and use it on a bin to permanently let that bin compost fruits as well. The scroll drops back if the bin is ever broken, so it's never lost.
Compost Fertilizer
Harvests drop Compost Fertilizer — it works on crops exactly like regular fertilizer, but stacks to 50 and is consumed one per use, so big harvests won't flood your inventory.
Configuration
A config file is created on first world load. Everything important is tunable:
{
"CompostTime": 60.0,
"RequiredVegetables": 4,
"ItemOutput": "SimpleCompost_Fertilizer",
"VegetablesPerOutput": 4,
"StoneCapacityMultiplier": 3,
"CopperCapacityMultiplier": 6,
"StirSecondsBonus": 5.0,
"StirCooldownSeconds": 5.0
}
Key Default Meaning
CompostTime 60 Seconds a full bin spends composting before it can be harvested.
RequiredVegetables 4 Items needed to fill the basic bin (visual stages scale to match).
ItemOutput SimpleCompost_Fertilizer Asset ID of the item dropped on harvest (default is a stackable fertilizer).
VegetablesPerOutput 4 Items needed per output item, so yield scales with bin capacity (basic 4→1, stone 12→3, copper 24→6).
StirSecondsBonus 5 Seconds removed per stir with a Crude Shovel. 0 disables stirring.
StirCooldownSeconds 5 How long a bin must settle before it can be stirred again.
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