I used a translation software to translate the introduction of this mod to help some Chinese friends who are not very good at English, if you mind, I will delete them anytime :)

[ACE Mod] Composting（堆肥）
关于
[ACE 模组]堆肥，也被称为“The Poop Mod（便便模组）”，旨在为您的农业增强提供更多选择，
同时还添加了一些幽默的新机制：牧场动物拉屎。或者*咳咳*粪便。
这个模组将允许你的牧羊人使用堆肥箱将有机物处理成堆肥，然后用于肥料。

特征
堆肥桶
堆肥箱可以由 牧羊人 创建，并由任何具有运输能力的人放置。可以在其中放置不同的物品：
粪便、腐烂的食物或由新鲜蔬菜制成的制作覆盖物 -
随着时间的推移，它们会变成堆肥，然后可以直接用于制作更大的堆肥块或肥料。
将来，堆肥可能还有其他用途。

粪
此外，牧场动物现在会消化食物并将其还给您......作为肥料，
粪肥可以有各种大小，可以直接带到堆肥箱进行堆肥。
您的动物产生的粪便取决于它们的摄食习惯;喂养良好的动物往往会产生更大更好的粪便，
而依赖草或基本的饲料会让你的粪便小一些让你失望。
然而，动物“生产”的最大大小受其物种的限制。（即：只有 Moo-moos（应该是牛一类的） 可以提供大粪便）

粪便晾晒架
牧羊人还可以制作一个架子，让您可以将粪便或堆肥干燥成可以用作燃料的干燥版本。
小肥料和粪肥将被转化为低等级燃料干肥料;Bits o' Compost 将被转化为 Dry Bit o' Compost，也是一种低等级的燃料;
Chunk o' Compost 将被转化为 Dry Chunk o' Compost，一种优质燃料。

兼容性
[ACE 模组]堆肥需要 Dani's Core Mod 和 Authorized Community Expansion （ACE） 才能运行。
这个 Mod 应该始终与大多数 Mod 兼容，只要它们不覆盖动物喂食行为。

本地化
这个 Mod 与 Stonehearth 的本地化完全兼容，默认为英语 （en），
但也包括巴西葡萄牙语 （pt-BR） 翻译和 ghostcrap 提供的日语 （ja-JP） 翻译！

支持和小费
喜欢我所做的事情，欣赏我的工作，或者只是想成为一个非常乐于助人和可爱的人？:)
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信用、许可证和联系人包含在 'readme' 文件中。

@SherlockDS
Check the dates, you're watching old videos :) It was changed to the Shepherd last October

i follow a channel called banto and in his playthrous the herbalist can do the composing bin but in my game they cant do it, can you help me?

I have Ace composting mod and I don't find the composting bin

Just updated the mod...
Please note that this update WILL cause errors to existing games that already have composting bins/etc, and they will likely disappear, but other than that, the game should work normally!

Can I add this to an existing game?

On May 13th, ACE module update, I found that my game was unable to obtain fertilizer through composting, which was very frustrating, so the herbalist was also unable to discover new seeds.

Excited to see the updated versions as well! Thank you!

great! Can't wait!

@CTH2004
I plan to update them, yes :)
My priority is ACE, so only when ACE becomes a bit more stable after this release I'll start updating my personal mods... I've already started updating Trapper+ (should be the first one to be released)

I have a quick question: are you still working on the other ones (especially the glass one)? If not, are these open source?

I have the same problem as True-Time_GoldOgre.
I cannot order it made.

Anh yeah that make sense x) Thank you !

Compost is not meant to be storaged, it's meant to be used straight from the bin
I mean, it's literally decomposing rotte food/feces/etc, you don't stuff that inside chests and barrels with your clothes and juice, lol

The fact it's being left on the ground means it is being used, otherwise it would just sit on the bins (they won't remove it for no other reason then crafting, but if they give up crafting for whatever other reason in the middle of the process, they'll just leave it on the ground

I can probably investigate to see if there's something going on and perhaps on a next update I can add a specific storage for it so you have options!

As for your problem @Sayptie, make sure that Dani Core mod is active

Hello, I also have a problem with the mode where when the herbalist go to change the thatch, I just got no compost ever.
Also thank you for this mode, I've been anjoying it for a while (when it was functioning tho x) )

i'm having the same problem as granted105

The Chunk o' Compost does not go into my storages. It just sits on the ground. I have made several and they are laying on the ground but they cannot be recognized as an ingredient nor does it get stored.
Do I need to do something else?

@True-Time_GoldOgre

I recommend you join the ACE discord to check out the Incompatible mods list... Smart Crafter is an incompatible mod with ACE (and has been) for years now.... It's possible that you're using other mods that are also incompatible and might cause errors in the future.

The cause has been found.
The phenomenon seems to occur when the MOD'Smart Crafter'is included.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1366720561

We also confirmed that it was improved by removing it from the game where the phenomenon was confirmed first, and that the phenomenon was reproduced with only the minimum MOD.

That's really weird, I don't see why a different windows version would change how the lua code is run (and bug it).... but either way, if it is related to some new windows error or problem, there's basically nothing I can do in a mod, it's windows that needs to fix itself :(
Sorry!

PC environment
Windows 11 Home 21H2 OS Build 22000.527
CPU Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
RAM 32.0 GB

Error message

release-949 (x64)[M]
radiant/modules/entities.lua:336: stack overflow

Hello, it's been a long time.
The error occurs only in Windows 11.
When I order Chunk o'Compost in Herbalist's Crafting Orders, I get an error and it doesn't appear in the order list.
You cannot also order fertilizers that use Chunk o'Compost as a material.
You can order it on Windows 10. (MOD has the same configuration.)

Is there a way to put this is storage? I have no idea what compost is supposed to be under but I have a ton of it just laying on the ground and my people won't haul it anywhere

yooooo poop mod

I don't seem to get anything from the compost bins at all. Or from the drying racks. Things go into them but nothing comes out?

nice just got it i love it so far

thanks for responding but the issue i have is when it gets put into storage( and doesn't go away it seems like) they have yet to make a filter for it so it doesn't clutter the warehouse by compost i mean as a fuel source there is no option in the fuel filter to use it so the Dry compost is always around though i have just decided to just turn it all into fertilizer which does get used and stored away again though love this mod very much a quality of life mod for me

@dragonheck
Compost can be used by the Herbalist to make fertilizer

Also, it's not the only way. Rotten food disappears by itself after 10 in-game hours, which is very quick - it literally disappears. This is base game behavior, by the way. If you see too much rotten food is because you're overproducing.

its annoying that i cant seen to do anything with the compost but it is literately the only way to remove rotten food from storage

Thank you for the reply.
We are waiting for you while enjoying the new ACE MOD.
:-)

@True-Time_GoldOgre

Yes, I do :)

Turns out I publish both mods (ACE and this) and while busy with the work on ACE I unfortunately don't have much time to update the other mods, but as soon as the fixing for ACE slows down I shall go to the others!

Recently, the fuel system has been changed with ACE MOD, and the fuel to be used is now selected on the tool side.
But you can't select Dry Manure there.
Do you have any plans to support it?

I mentioned this in discord but adding it here as well - can the dried compost items be made sellable please? I have over 800 of the dried small bits & it's taking up so much inventory - I don't know what the filter is for the storage so I can't exclude it & destroy them as needed

Wini´s Little Castle
Inn "Boy with Bag"
Clock Tower Barracks
Wini´s Geomancer-Herbalist House
Northern Houses
Poultry farm 50x50
Merchant Guild "Door at roof"
Five Man Quarters
Box Command Tool
Blacksmith
Tavern "Oldman Q"
Central Park
Hub Courtyard
Magic Combat
Build me a street (Tier 1)
New House
Super Mod 6
Stone Walls and Towers
TMD - Tier I Buildings
Tavern "Prancing Pony"
Town Center "Little Palace"
Canyon Biome
Beam - Hearthling Stats Customization
TMD - Tier III Buildings
TMD - Tier II Buildings
Extra Map Options
Armis Maximus
Autoharvest Mod

most of them are buildings, i think maybe this mod: 'Swamp Biome + Firefly Clan + Beast Tamer' because i subscribed it recently other works well before

here is my mod list:
[ACE Mod] Composting
Trapper+
Dani's Core Mod
Defenders of the North Complete
Pottery Hub
[Fiva] Carpentry and Mason with two workspaces (Ascendancy)
简体中文
Swamp Biome + Firefly Clan + Beast Tamer
Combat Dash
Authorized Community Expansion (ACE)
Mod Repairer
Miner Profession
Finery
Wizard Quest
石匠 石匠 Stonecutters
Skuldos - Walls and Defences
Tily's Huge Chests
The Porch Tavern & Inn
Dragon's castle
Wini´s Fortress
Rabbit Burrows

@360安全卫士
Are you also using Dani's Core Mod? It's necessary for the transformations to happen (you can find it under the required mods section on the top right here)

If you have it on and still have the problem, it might be something else - probably an incompatibility - because it's working fine on my end

Mods that are known to cause issues because of the way they modify filters/tags and such are Better Storage or Piles+, if you use either of these it is possible that they're causing the issue (and other issues as well, especially Piles+, it's an outdated mod that can break both Trapper+ and ACE)

items stop turning, i do not have the material of fertilizer or salted meat

Composting and trapper+ seems not working

@Robot200906
Sure! I could add saplings to the list of compostable material - or create a compostable craftable (similar to the vegetable compost) made from saplings.

Bones can take a really long time to compost, and since they're quite common in the game I fear that the player might end up filling their bins with bones that will take a while to function. I could also add a similar recipe tho, but for bone meal of sorts.

Thanks for the suggestions =D

hey, i have an suggestion, could you make saplings and seeds putable in the composting bin like in real life?
because my farmers keep growing saplings and i have nothing to do with them. (maybe even bones?)

It feels like you singlehandedly hold that game alive XD

looks like shit, i love it

Glad to see a use for rotten foodstuffs.

I see what you did there *wink wink* *scoff scoff*

the shitties mod i tried so far. I love this shit
as to be expected from Dani really nice one