Ark Survival Evolved Compost Bin: Craft & Use

The Compost bin is essentially a farming structure in Ark Survival Evolved that you can use to create Fertilizers using Thatch and Feces. The fertilization provided by these custom-made fertilizers tends to be a lot more potent than just regular animal Fertilizers. If you’re working with any sort of plant turret, such as Auto Turret or Plant Species X, you’ll need to provide it with fertilization so that it can keep functioning. As only ten slots are available, it is better to put some sort of resource that keeps the plant fertilized for a long time.

How to Craft the Compost Bin?

You will need to meet certain requirements to craft the Compost Bin in Ark Survival Evolved.

First and foremost, you will need the Engram. For that purpose, you need to be at least Level 15; otherwise, you cannot even unlock the Engram.

Once you are Level 15, you will need 6 Engram points to unlock the recipe for the Compost Bin. However, it’s not that simple because you must unlock the Storage Box recipe as well to unlock the Engram. After you get the Engram, you will need 12 Fiber, 15 Thatch, and 50 Wood to craft the Compost Bin and start using it.

How to Use the Compost Bin in Ark Survival Evolved?

• Input 50 Thatch and 3 Feces (any size) into the Compost Bin.
• Can mix and match feces sizes.
• After 1.5 in-game days or about 50 minutes real-time, receive one fertilizer.
• Compost Bin stores up to two fertilizers.
• Can input 100 Thatch and 6 Feces to get two fertilizers.
• Must remove fertilizers to create more.
• Fertilizers created are usually more potent than three feces.
• Using 3 Massive Animal Feces yields longer fertilization time.
• Ideal to use small to large feces for fertilizers and massive ones separately.

 If you need help gathering resources, check out: the Ark Lost Island Resource Map guide.

Here are the various fertilizer types and their timings for a better context.

General Tips about the Compost Bin 

Here are some general tips to help you out when using the compost bin.

• If you remove the minimum required items to create a fertilizer before completion, the entire process will reset.
• With the Massive Animal Feces, you can create a total of 5 Fertilizers if you only input 1 x Massive Animal Feces and 50 x Thatch.
• Feces that are placed in the Compost Bin have their spoil time multiplied by 10.
• If you need a lot of feces quickly, you can use the hallucinating effect through the poisonous red mushrooms. It will make the player produce enough feces for multiple units of fertilizer.
• The Compost Bin can get damaged by anything except non-explosive ranged attacks.

With that, you know everything about the Compost Bin. It can be useful for creating fertilizers which are preferred over regular feces.

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