Compost Bin – A place to dump unwanted things

[rallecarde]

I find that while I’m processing a lot of goods that I end up with spare components that I don’t really want or need. What to do with those things? Horde them in cupboards in case they might be used someday to take up masses of storage space? Drop them on the ground and hope the magical decay fairies take them away sometime soon? I suggest that there could be a building that is a Compost Bin that is specifically designed to destroy items without the delay of waiting for decay. This would help people to keep their claims tidy, immediately remove unwanted items from the game world without the need for additional processing during the decay cycle, and make spring cleaning all the extra stuff that’s laying around in your cupboards easier.

I suggest that the Compost Bin be a buildable, but not liftable, building that has two ways to operate. First, you steal the interface for liftables from a boat and whenever you have a liftable above your head and you right click the Compost Bin you get a space like a boat to drop it in to destroy it. Second, you steal the inventory interface from a kiln that has enough space for a max character inventory, and instead of the ‘light’ button you have a ‘compost’ button that will destroy anything in the building’s storage when pressed. If a person mistakenly destroying items that they don’t mean to is a concern, there could be a second button added so you have to ‘close lid’ then ‘compost’ as a second check to make sure that the user truly meant to eliminate those items. Additionally, to prevent people from using the compost bin as storage it automatically destroys any items after being stored in the hopper for 5 minutes regardless of button use.

This suggestion has obvious potential for greifing. If someone was to break into your claim they could just take all your stuff and put it all in the compost bin. However, this is the same as if they were to dump all of your things in the river, just a bit faster. I also suggest that the lid be toggle lockable with a possible graphic denotation on the building itself to show the locked or unlocked state. The lock will cause any potential raiders to only be able to destroy it outright if you were to keep it locked, and that would negate the possibility of the Compost Bin being used to rapidly destroy a claim.

I gave some thought to the building possibly giving back some kind of item for throwing things in to be composted, but there are really only two possibilities, as I see it, for some kind of return item. Either the item is useless, and that would go contrary to the point of the building to get rid of unwanted items. Or the item is useful, in which case people would simply farm the most easily generated crap to drop into the hopper solely to get the post process item. So, I would recommend that this building return nothing at all, it is simply to destroy unwanted objects.

If there are plans in the works to make a compost bin for decaying plant matter into fertilizer or the composting concept would like to be reserved for later use, this suggestion could also be styled as a junk pit, garbage dump, or oubliette as additional examples.

[DarkhVorTeX]

As much as I like how this sounds, I would just suggest ``throw it on the ground''. It's not like Harvest Moon where the villagers all suddenly start becoming angry at you for littering.

And...it's too much effort to just hide garbage that you're throwing away.

[DatOneGuy]

As much as I like how this sounds, I would just suggest ``throw it on the ground''. It's not like Harvest Moon where the villagers all suddenly start becoming angry at you for littering.

And...it's too much effort to just hide garbage that you're throwing away.

Perhaps you dont care if your village has garbage all over it's floors, but I sure as hell do.

[vikingdragons]

Ok, well i kinda like this idea. But it should give you back Compost, because it is a fucking compost bin. Compost can be used as fertilizer for plowed ground, adding its (low, due to being compost) quality to crop quality.
We also need to be able to dig up animal shit for fertilizer too.

[martinuzz]

We need horses as well. So they can poop. Add horse poop to compost. Grow edible mushrooms on that, in a cave.

[DatOneGuy]

I believe OP is mistaking the common use of the term compost bin which is usually not used to throw out everything and anything but only things that red worms can digest, so that they may digest said things (Banana peels, left over food, table scraps, etc) and turn it into urine which you then use as a sort of fertilizer for your plants. I've done it irl and the thought of walking around with warm worm pee might not be the best, but heh.

I believe something similar was brought up previously in quite a few threads (To a compost bin, not what OP is suggesting).

I'm not surehow smart something to instantly destroy items is a good idea at all, just designate a corner for dropping stuff in the floor outside and if you don't like littering, make a crossroad to the nearest shallow waters...

[JustasJ]

I like the idea too.

It could also be made like a chicken coop to grow earthworms for fishing and make soil for treepots in, even though putting axes in it for that would be silly.

[REWB]

Well, if your close to a river or lake stand in the shallows or hop in a boat/raft and ctrl>left click.... splash!

[Kearn]

I wish that items has a 25% chance (unchanging with beliefs) of becoming compost, which allows you to increase the quality of soil by the quality of the item that was turned into compost. That would give people an incentive not to recycle high quality items just to grow better trees.