Obliterator

[Fallen Shaman]

Can you use the obliterator only to get coal? And you have to use 5 wood for that? Is that some kind of joke?

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Yep. It's not meant to be efficient, it's meant to be a garbage can. It's 4 items per coal. Except trophies, trophies yield 1:1 ratio.

The obliterator becomes a much better source of coal once you are farming massive amounts of crops. I wouldn't recommend barley, because barley converts down better to bread, a decent trash food. But extra Jotun Puffs, Mage Caps and Flax can all be fed to the obliterator to yield large quantities of coal, depending on the size of your farm.

[M.Red]

the obliterator is like a trashcan converting nearly every object into coal
depends on how many object you put in
exact ratios are unknown to me, i dont use the obliterator often

[Kursor1]

The purpose of the obliterator is to get rid of all those bukeperries, old half-used torches, scrap pants, greyling trophies etc that you no longer want or never wanted rather than having to just dump them somewhere and hope you dont accidentally pick them up again later (you probably will). The coal is just a side bonus, although I'm pretty sure the ratios of stuff to coal people have mentioned are way off.

Regardless of what the ratio actually is, its a decent source of coal if you can grow crops efficiently or you have a grey dwarf farm.

[Archdeacon Monseigneur]

i made a system for my obliterator.
i have a cart next to my main base entrances (with the obliterator itself taking up one of these "cart spots") which i continuously drop trash into every time i get back to base after a farm run.

useless crap like bukeberries, stone, wood, certain trophies, bones, leather scraps/boar trophies + wolf pelts/teeth/trophies (from butchering), various tree seeds, greydwarf eyes and any other inventory clutter goes into the cart immediately upon return to base.
(you could use chests for this instead obviously, i just opted for carts because they are cheap, movable and has more space than a basic wood chest)

after 5-6 runs out in the open world, the obliterator and carts will be near full, at which point i "recycle" it all for a stack or two of coal.

beats chopping wood and using kilns or at least as an addition to doing that. removes some of the tedious need to constantly chop wood just to fuel fires, kilns and by extension smelters.

im basically just happy it has a function besides being a garbage can, and it makes the fact that trash drops clutter inventory space much less frustrating to deal with since in the back of your mind you're like "eh, free coal i guess".

[jonnin]

I haven't made coal in a kiln in a long time. Its wonderful.

[Riqcrow]

it is bloody ugly and next to useless as a garbage can, think there is a console command that deletes everything thrown to ground that is better than use this device.

[UncleAcidic]

you can nuke a bunch of chickens with it

[Archdeacon Monseigneur]

Originally posted by RiQ:

it is bloody ugly and next to useless as a garbage can, think there is a console command that deletes everything thrown to ground that is better than use this device.

i'll admit its kind of an eye-soar.
however, its a good source for free coal.
just tuck it away somewhere where you won't have to look at it very much.
not really in favor of devcommands as a solution to minor problems in the game, but each to their own.

[Archdeacon Monseigneur]

to this day i still wonder if there's a secret item combination that yields something other than coal.
akin to runewords in diablo 2, but i doubt it lol.

[Species1571]

Don't put raw meats in the obliterator. Instead put them on the cooking station and let them burn to coal (that's not how fossilisation works, but hey video game logic). This way you get coal on a 1:1 ratio to the number of meat.

[jonnin]

I have mine stuck thru the roof on a tower as a lightning rod. But yes, its generally ugly. Not sure what other use you might have beyond getting a lightning strike screenshot.

[Chiller]

You can also make Thor frown at you.
I wish obliterator could be exploded if you anger Thor too many times... possibly dealing high lightning in larger area.

[Psalms]

I honestly think it might still be bugged..

but I'm not sure...

[Renlish]

Use it to mass cull chicken.

[ling.speed]

Originally posted by Species1571:

Don't put raw meats in the obliterator. Instead put them on the cooking station and let them burn to coal (that's not how fossilisation works, but hey video game logic).

Neither is burning wood in a klin.

(yep its all charcoal, funny you went after the process rather the name itself.)