exile_composter

A standalone composter module for Exile focused on recycling biological leftovers into fertilizer materials.

Dependencies

• tech
• animals
• nodes_nature

Gameplay Goal

The composter is designed to:

• Slowly produce worms (very rare).
• Produce fertilizer materials at a higher rate.
• Keep most outputs useful for restoring crop soils.

What Is Compostable

An item is accepted if it is at least one of:

• A plant item (for example flora, fibrous_plant, woody_plant, cane_plant, mushroom groups).
• An animal item (item name in the animals: namespace).
• An edible item (group edible).
• A food registered by Exile's public health system (food_table).
• Any item tagged with group compost.

Note for related mods: the compost group is an optional integration hook. If your mod adds custom organic items, set groups = { compost = 1 } to make them compostable.

This also covers public Exile foods such as nodes_nature:maraka_nut and nodes_nature:tangkal_fruit, which are edible through health even if they do not expose the edible group directly.

How To Use

1. Craft exile_composter:composter_bin from the chopping_block recipe.
2. Put compostable items into the input inventory.
3. Wait for timer cycles (default: 60 seconds).
4. The machine consumes items and increases compost level.
5. Generated outputs appear in the output inventory.

Internal Logic

Inventories

• main: input.
• output: generated products.

Manual insertion into output is blocked.

Compost Accumulation

• Compost increases by quantity.
• Each consumed item adds +1 compost.
• Compost is capped at 100.

Generation Table

• exile_composter:humus: chance 25, cost 3
• exile_composter:vermicompost: chance 8, cost 2
• animals:carcass_invert_small: chance 1, cost 8

Bonemeal is intentionally not produced by the composter.

Bonemeal Recipe

• mortar_and_pestle: bones:bones -> exile_composter:bonemeal 3

All three new items are fertilizers (group:fertilizer):

• exile_composter:humus
• exile_composter:vermicompost
• exile_composter:bonemeal

Textures

This mod ships its own fertilizer textures:

• exile_composter_humus.png
• exile_composter_vermicompost.png
• exile_composter_bonemeal.png
• exile_composter_bin.png
• exile_composter_bin_top.png
• exile_composter_arrow.png

Public API

This mod exposes its internal state through the exile_composter namespace:

• exile_composter.seconds_to_compost
• exile_composter.generate_items
• exile_composter.is_compostable_name(item_name)
• exile_composter.get_composter_formspec(compost)
• exile_composter.generate_compost(inv, compost)
• exile_composter.process_compostable_items(inv, compost)