Do worms influence mulch quality?

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Do worms influence mulch quality?

Postby Barbamaus » Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:46 pm

Hello.
The wiki doesn't say much about Mulch quality. It only reports that it's softcapped by the compost bin quality, and that it's somewhat linked to the materials you put inside.
Looking at the compost bin page, it also says that you can add worms inside the compost bin to speed up the process. It doesn't say if those worms quality matter, and how much.

Does anyone have an actual formula for mulch quality? Do worms influence quality, and if so by how much?
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Re: Do worms influence mulch quality?

Postby MagicManICT » Fri Apr 30, 2021 5:16 pm

It's an average of the materials used to make the mulch, just like other aspects of the game, and softcapped by the bin quality. If you don't think this is straightforward enough, a suggested rephrasing would be helpful. Many of us that write up the wiki are pretty geeky, and we don't always make the phrasing as obvious as necessary or as user friendly (or in other words, it looks good to us, and nobody else has mentioned it yet).

Last I recall, worm quality does not matter.

The quality for the mulch is on the page... more or less. Calculate your bin quality with the formula given. If you load in a bucket of q30 seeds, and have a q10 bin, then you're going to get q20 mulch. That's how softcapping works in Haven--if quality of materials > quality of workstation, then final quality = (material quality + workstation quality) / 2. If you use various scraps to feed the bin, you can try to track them individually, or you can try to figure out what your current average value is, usually by using resulting mulch and bin values to get your running average, and then doing some fancy math to figure out the new average.
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Re: Do worms influence mulch quality?

Postby Barbamaus » Fri Apr 30, 2021 5:57 pm

MagicManICT wrote:Last I recall, worm quality does not matter.

This is what I was looking for, thank you!

MagicManICT wrote: final quality = (material quality + workstation quality) / 2

Should add that formula on the wiki page, like most other items have. Thanks for the clarification :)
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Re: Do worms influence mulch quality?

Postby MagicManICT » Fri Apr 30, 2021 6:00 pm

Barbamaus wrote:Should add that formula on the wiki page, like most other items have. Thanks for the clarification

It is. You just need to know what "softcapping" means in Haven. One of the key points in maintaining data integrity is not having information duplicated in multiple places. You therefore create a term and put its definition in one place. (We nerds and wizards can be insufferable at times.)
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