Composting

Description

Castaways has a composting system using the Composter . It allows players to create Dirt using Sand and Crops .

Craft a Composter

Icon	Name	Crafting Recipe
	Composter	2 Sticks + 2 Stone + 1 Barrel

Composting

After placing a Composter right click to bring up the UI. By placing Crops on the left and Sand in the right of the composter, the player can mine Dirt from the space above Composter. The composter holds a total of 60 Sand and 300 Crop Points. Crops are each worth a different amount of Crop Points outlined in the table below.

Composting Recipes

Input	Crop Points Needed	Output
60x Sand	100 Crop Points	60x Dirt

List of Crop Point Values

Crop	Value
Carrots	0.4451
Cabbage	0.5411
Yam	0.6297
Strawberry	0.0505
Coffee	0.0379
Tomato	0.1132
Corn	0.1908
Pineapple	0.4610
Banana	1.0761
Passion Fruit	1.9575
Mango	3.3756
Guava	6.8221
Orange	20.4401
Lemon	81.4269

Crop:Dirt Ratio

If the crop point is a little hard to calculate, here is the rough Crop:Dirt output ratio.
For example, on average 1 carrot can produce 0.6 Dirt, which means you need at least 2 carrots for 1 Dirt while 5 carrots can produce 3 Dirts.

Crops:Dirt Ratio

Per Crops	Dirt Output
	~0.09
	~0.11
	~0.13
	~0.01
	~0.01
	~0.02
	~0.04
	~0.1
	~0.21
	~0.4
	~0.67
	~1.36
	~4.1
	~16.3