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May 7

Recycler/Garbage Profession

T1, a logger could build basically a (not large) lumber stockpile that can store only garbage, it’d simply be called a “landfill”. T2 unlocks a large landfill, mechanical recycler, and mechanical compactor. Recycler needs mechanical power and provides things like wood pulp, seeds, and rare chance for things like nails and mortar. Compactor makes compacted garbage which can be burned, albeit at a high pollution. T3 unlocks just an electric recycler, higher chances for better things. Garbage, if buried, multiplies ground pollution, opposite of tailings. T4 provides an incinerator, an energy hungry garbage eliminator. Requires a laser.
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changed status toCompleted·Jun 24, 2026
Jun 24, 2026

This will be implemented in upcoming Update 14.

Sep 5, 2025

Additionally, it can even be hard focused on collection and recycling. But if there are products that couldn't be recycled further, the collector could sell trash to burn off in the city power plant. I think there is a lot of potential for trash in this game.

May 15, 2024

Garbage sorting would be also cool with items having the percentage of materials they are made from: metal, plastic, wood, other organic, mineral etc and players could sort them into different bins with various rates of sorting quality or not sort at all. Recycler profession could unlock various sorting devices like shredders, magnetic separators, air centrifuges, and floating pools to further separate materials for later uses.

May 7, 2024

Would be awesome to have a garbage truck, and people put a waste bin at the side of their property, which the garbage collector can come pick up and use recyclers to make materials. I would drop my wood axe in the bin when I buy an iron axe, ditch my tent when I built my house. The garbage collector would turn those into wood logs and cotton cloth. Wet tailing would be collected and be turned into whatever makes sense for tailings to turn into. And bonus, you'll be able to craft a garbage truck early in the game. Or start off with just a cart.