Portable Composter

The portable composter is the movable alternative to the Advanced Composter. It is connected to no network: power comes from a battery in its battery slot, water from a liquid canister in its canister slot. It also has one slot for filling in (slot 0) and one for the finished fertiliser (slot 1).

It accepts anything edible, cooked food too, plus decayed food, biomass and hay. It grinds each item in 5 s, so a stack is processed one item at a time. Meanwhile it shows Mode 1. The button starts composting as soon as at least 3 items are in stock and the canister holds at least 20 mol of water. Every 120 s, 3 items and 20 mol of water become one fertiliser. It has no data port.

One quirk: it calculates the mix in whole numbers. Special fertiliser only comes from a pure filling – only decayed food, only food or only biomass. Any mix gives plain fertiliser. It only uses power while grinding or composting (power factor 15, PowerUseMult). An empty battery or a missing canister means standstill – swap the cell in time, for example for an Battery Cell (Small) from the charger.

Unlike most devices it is not built from a kit: the electronics printer makes it directly from 15 copper and 10 steel. It cannot be painted. What you need the compost for is covered in Compost, fertiliser and getting seeds.