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Compost

Type	Crafted material
State	Loose
Transported by	U-shape Conveyor [II•III] Pickup•Truck Haul Truck (Dump)
Stored in	Loose Storage [II•III•IV] Shipyard
Created in	None
Used in	Designations

Compost is a loose product generated by the processing of Food from a Farm or Sludge from a Wastewater Treatment machine.

Compost's primary usage is to boost the food production by increasing fertility: it serves as the ingredient for Fertilizer, and it can be dumped to create fertile soil that Farms can be built upon. Dumped Compost turns into Dirt.

Note that the loop

Compost -> Fertilizer (Organic) -> Greenhouse -> Animal Feed -> Compost

can produce enough extra fertilizer for about 2.5 additional farms, assuming the crop is Wheat or Corn and that Dirt is added to the fertilizer recipe. This does cost significant extra water for irrigation, plus the workers and power to run the chain, plus the continuous consumption of Dirt. Corn has a higher output but also uses more water.

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Natural resources	Bauxite Coal Copper Ore Dirt Gold Ore Iron Ore Limestone Quartz Rock Sand Seawater Sulfur Titanium Ore Uranium Ore Wood Water
Semi-processed materials	Acid Alumina Aluminum Scrap Aluminum Scrap Pressed Bauxite Powder Brine Broken Glass Chemical Fuel Cement Chilled Water Compact Reactor Composite Core Basic Composite Core Diamond Diamond Paste Copper Ore Crushed Copper Scrap Copper Scrap Pressed Glass Mix Gold Ore Concentrate Gold Ore Crushed Gold Ore Powder Gold Scrap Gold Scrap Pressed Graphite Gravel Hydrated Alumina Imported Goods Impure Copper Iron Ore Crushed Iron Scrap Iron Scrap Pressed Lens Manufactured Sand Molten Aluminum Molten Copper Molten Glass Molten Iron Molten Silicon Molten Steel Molten Titanium Molten Titanium Alloy Quartz Crushed Recyclables Recyclables Pressed Salt Sapphire Wafer Slag Crushed Titanium Alloy Titanium Chloride Titanium Chloride (Pure) Titanium Ore Crushed Titanium Slag Titanium Sponge Uranium Ore Powder Woodchips
Crafted materials	Aluminum Asteroid Booster Parts Composite Panel Concrete Slab Construction Parts Construction Parts II Construction Parts III Construction Parts IV Consumer Electronics Copper Crew Supplies Electronics Electronics II Electronics III Electronics IV Filter Media Flowers Glass Gold Household Appliances Household Goods Iron Lab Equipment Lab Equipment II Lab Equipment III Lab Equipment IV Luxury Goods Maintenance I Maintenance II Maintenance III Mechanical Parts Microchips (intermediate stages) Office Supplies Paper PCB Rail Parts Server Silicon (Poly) Silicon Wafer Solar Cell Solar Cell Mono Space Probe Parts Station Parts (Basic) Station Parts Steel Vehicle Parts Vehicle Parts II Vehicle Parts III
Food and medical	Fertility Anesthetics Animal Feed Antibiotics Bread Cake Canola Chicken Carcass Compost Cooking Oil Corn Mash Corn Disinfectant Eggs Ethanol Fertilizer (Organic) Fertilizer I Fertilizer II Flour Food Pack Fruit Green Manure Meat Trimmings Meat Medical Equipment Medical Supplies Medical Supplies II Medical Supplies III Morphine Poppy Potato Sausage Snack Soybean Sugar Cane Sugar Tofu Tree Sapling Vegetables Wheat
Petrochemical	Ammonia Chlorine Crude Oil Diesel Heavy Oil Hydrogen Hydrogen Fluoride Light Oil Fuel Gas Medium Oil Naphtha Nitrogen Oxygen Plastic Rubber Sour Water
Power and nuclear	Electricity Heat Mechanical Power Steam (Super) Steam (High) Steam (Low) Steam (Depleted) Blanket Fuel Blanket Fuel (Enriched) Core Fuel Core Fuel (Spent) Depleted Uranium Enriched Uranium (4%) Enriched Uranium (20%) Fission Product MOX Rod Plutonium Reprocessed Uranium (1%) Retired Waste Spent Fuel Spent MOX Uranium Rod Yellowcake
Waste and pollution	Air Pollution Water Pollution Biomass Carbon Dioxide Exhaust Red Mud Slag Sludge Toxic Slurry Waste Waste Pressed Waste Water

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 * Compost -> [[Fertilizer (organic)]] -> Greenhouse -> [[Animal Feed]] -> Compost
-is generally not worth the trouble. While it is very slightly positive in terms of the main products - assuming the crop is [[Wheat]] or [[Corn]] - this is at the expense of dirt, a large amount of water for irrigation, and the workers and power to run the chain. You are usually better off not making extra Compost from crops.
+can produce enough extra fertilizer for about 2.5 additional farms, assuming the crop is [[Wheat]] or [[Corn]] and that [[Dirt]] is added to the fertilizer recipe. This does cost significant extra water for irrigation, plus the workers and power to run the chain, plus the continuous consumption of Dirt. Corn has a higher output but also uses more water.
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