Better Compost Heap!

[Gr3atsaga]

As you plant more crops and use better fertilizers, you get so much crop waste.

There isn't a good balance between Compost Heaps and the amount of crop waste you get, especially when you add in the grapes and hops at the Vineyard.

So, what if you could upgrade your Compost Heaps so that they process more crop waste at a time? There could be a stone tier and a marble tier, perhaps processing 2x and 3x more respectively.

More compost heaps = Less Crop Space. I'm sure I could get around to doing a rough estimate of how much Crop Waste you get and how much you can process, and get a balance between them.

Either this, or a location south of the road that is for compost heaps only. The fact that they take up crop space could be alleviated this way, and better balance could be achieved.

Perhaps even both new compost heap tiers, but a place to put them across the road. That would mean you could achieve the best balance possible, and be able to plant in the entire garden.

[Nekrosis]

Originally posted by Gr3atsaga:

As you plant more crops and use better fertilizers, you get so much crop waste.

There isn't a good balance between Compost Heaps and the amount of crop waste you get, especially when you add in the grapes and hops at the Vineyard.

So, what if you could upgrade your Compost Heaps so that they process more crop waste at a time? There could be a stone tier and a marble tier, perhaps processing 2x and 3x more respectively.

More compost heaps = Less Crop Space. I'm sure I could get around to doing a rough estimate of how much Crop Waste you get and how much you can process, and get a balance between them.

Either this, or a location south of the road that is for compost heaps only. The fact that they take up crop space could be alleviated this way, and better balance could be achieved.

Perhaps even both new compost heap tiers, but a place to put them across the road. That would mean you could achieve the best balance possible, and be able to plant in the entire garden.

You can sell crop waste to the guy near the Cows. Not the lady in front of the building, the guy in the back right of the yard with the cows. It's worthless, but it's something.

[Cold|Heat]

Absolutely agree with OP. I don't see why this wasn't a thing from the start. As if it wasn't tiresome enough to manually have to create fertilizer every time the compost heap that has to refilled all the time is unnecessary annoying.

I've got over 900 crop waste waiting in my box to be turned into Peat (of which I am constantly lacking) and the whole running up, running down, running up, running down of the fertilizer creation process really becomes boring.

Selling it might appear to be "better then nothing" but then again at the stage of the game where you need quality fertilizer you don't need any small coins anymore. And you definitely won't get enough money from selling crop waste so that it justifies the time effort to run to the legless cow guy.

[GlassDeviant]

Hmm...I am continually running out of crop waste to put in my row of 5 compost heaps along the left side of the garden. That's with 6 zombie garderms, a row of regular fields across the top, and the vineyard up the side of the hill in full and continuous production.

My biggest problem is having to destroy hundreds of maggots as I have no use for them.

[UndeadUnbug]

Originally posted by Zombielord Ativan:

My biggest problem is having to destroy hundreds of maggots as I have no use for them.

Just eat them.

[Gr3atsaga]

Originally posted by Zombielord Ativan:

Hmm...I am continually running out of crop waste to put in my row of 5 compost heaps along the left side of the garden. That's with 6 zombie garderms, a row of regular fields across the top, and the vineyard up the side of the hill in full and continuous production.

My biggest problem is having to destroy hundreds of maggots as I have no use for them.

Keep in mind, this thread was created pre Breaking Dead. Haven't gotten around to getting my zombie gardens up and running yet... perhaps it solves the issue with excess crop waste. Of course... the fact that the garden only takes up two vertical spaces leaves a bad taste in my mouth. There should be a variant that takes three vertical spaces, for the taller crop plots

[GlassDeviant]

Originally posted by Not-a-Cockroach:

Originally posted by Zombielord Ativan:

My biggest problem is having to destroy hundreds of maggots as I have no use for them.

Just eat them.

You are welcome to eat them if you want. You can have mine, too.

[GlassDeviant]

Originally posted by Gr3atsaga:

Originally posted by Zombielord Ativan:

Hmm...I am continually running out of crop waste to put in my row of 5 compost heaps along the left side of the garden. That's with 6 zombie garderms, a row of regular fields across the top, and the vineyard up the side of the hill in full and continuous production.

My biggest problem is having to destroy hundreds of maggots as I have no use for them.

Keep in mind, this thread was created pre Breaking Dead. Haven't gotten around to getting my zombie gardens up and running yet... perhaps it solves the issue with excess crop waste. Of course... the fact that the garden only takes up two vertical spaces leaves a bad taste in my mouth. There should be a variant that takes three vertical spaces, for the taller crop plots

Actually I have the same problem even without using zombies at all. I can never keep the compost heaps running due to lack of crop waste. In fact it's worse without zombie farms because iirc they don't produce crop waste; nor do they consume extra peat or other fertilizer, once you get them first established, except when you upgrade them. I should have thought through my first post in greater depth so that I could include this then, but I was pretty tired at the time.

[Nikkie_Slaughter]

+1