How do i deal with all my trash?

[Dustreaper]

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I can't figure out how to deal with it. Find it very hard to keep it under control same with food.. Got 14 people working trash. Read a few posts but i don't harvest at Infinite i harvest till max storage so i should't overproduce right?

[Tiberiumkyle]

A working village will produce some amount of trash no matter what. You generally want at least one landfill to safely store trash and a few burners to dispose of it.

[Dustreaper]

Originally posted by Tiberiumkyle:

A working village will produce some amount of trash no matter what. You generally want at least one landfill to safely store trash and a few burners to dispose of it.

Got 1 landfill, 1 trashbin, 4 processors and 1 burner.Do i just need more burners?all max upgraded and do i need to fill all job slots because they are always capped burning so i think i can get away with less workers for it?

[Tiberiumkyle]

You only need as many workers as is needed to get trash into the landfill(s) and burner(s), more won't make the burners work faster. 4 burners are what I generally wind up with in my own late game villages (300+ pop).

[steelerx]

Unless I've had a lot of buildings destroyed by an invading mob, I get by fine with just 1 landfill and 1 processor (fully upgraded.) The trick is to place them side by side and toggle off the processor until the landfill is near capacity. Otherwise your trashers waste time picking up a couple pieces of trash, running it to the processor, waiting for it to be processed and then running the resource to a stock pile, before going to get a few more pieces of trash. Turning off the processor (or burners) lets them focus on trash collection. I also run with a level 1 trash golem. If I'm getting behind on processing I'll have them build a trash cube or two and the destroy it with flame spell. Build them fairy close to your landfill, but make sure you allow enough room for the spell range and keep away from paths, some villagers are willing to walk into the wall of flames instead of running away from them.

[Tiberiumkyle]

Originally posted by steelerx:

If I'm getting behind on processing I'll have them build a trash cube or two and the destroy it with flame spell.

The reduction of trashy cubes from this is actually a bug, you're supposed to wind up with the same amount that went into making the big trash cube. Ray plans on fixing it.

[steelerx]

Originally posted by Tiberiumkyle:

Originally posted by steelerx:

If I'm getting behind on processing I'll have them build a trash cube or two and the destroy it with flame spell.

The reduction of trashy cubes from this is actually a bug, you're supposed to wind up with the same amount that went into making the big trash cube. Ray plans on fixing it.

Please don't do that, It would make no sense. Trash is burnable and you're setting it on fire using up your manna in the process. Maybe just reduce the number of cubes destroyed this way and/or slow the burn rate so it takes longer?

[Dustreaper]

Made a few more burners and like well over 3k trash is gone now. Damn processors are really slow..

[Tiberiumkyle]

Originally posted by Dustreaper:

Damn processors are really slow..

Processors don't actually destroy trash, they just give a chance of getting something useful out of most trash types, turning it into trashy trash in the process.

[Dustreaper]

hmmm wish things were a bit more clear.. Like i think the game said when i first started be prepared for a lot of tutorial message or something like that. I have seen like 10 of them so little.. Some things are also pretty vague for a new players like can shoot over most walls, instead of having a height class so i can accurately know which tower can shoot over what without trial and error.

[happyscrub]

I only have two trash people and I never have problems.

Build 1 or 2 trash cans
build a landfill when the cans start to get full.
Hire 1 trash person
Upgrade the landfill until you can't as it gets full.
When the landfill gets full build a processor
Hire 1 more trash person and upgrade the processor when you can
Let everything run until your landfill is full with trashy trash.
Then build those trash golems who will reduce all the trash by half.
Then wait until the landfill is full of trash cubes and then start building burners.

By time this happens, you are in late game and can build what you want

[donastree]

Most of the time, I go with an equal number of burners for however many "golem defense nodes" I have - just to keep the essence collectors fueled. If I've got a board where there is no corruption left, I switch out to 1 burner on my central node (I'm just not using much essence any more), and pop 6 processors at full upgrade, instead. Put in a trashcans for each "screen" the town takes up, so the doggos and organizers keep it clean, and the +120% processing speed eats through the trash like it's potato chips. haven't tried it at 300+ people - I'm mostly staying at 100 or so thanks to mass migrations to new areas.

(to be clear, I could probably get away with just 5 at 100 people, I'm just being overly cautious)

2 trashers seems like a pretty firm minimum if you need the essence, just because you don't ever want your burns to run out of fuel, and people do sleep XD never needed more trashers than I had processors or burners, though.

[happyscrub]

Originally posted by donastree:

2 trashers seems like a pretty firm minimum if you need the essence, just because you don't ever want your burns to run out of fuel, and people do sleep XD never needed more trashers than I had processors or burners, though.

I see no reason to get more than 2 trashers. 2 trasher + upgraded processor gathers all the trash and sorta it all with never getting behind. My highest pop was maybe 180 with just 2.

The bottle neck for getting rid of trash is golems and burners. Having more trashers doesn't make that process go any faster.

This is especially true in late game, because organizers and others will pick up trash and take it directly to the processors.