Re: Compost Bin Purity: Oh crap, how do earthworms work?

by **dageir** » Wed May 29, 2013 11:19 am

I must admit I did not read the entire thread, ut what do you feed your worms with? Im talking about stuff that is "non-legacy". I use some foregables with 3 % purity. I have gotten 1% worms so far which yield humus with 1,05 multiplier. Next step would perhaps be using pumpkin flesh once it passes 3%?

by **martinuzz** » Wed May 29, 2013 11:45 am

I use (legacy) pumpkin flesh for worms above 5-10%.
I used random gatherables to get them to 5% first, not to waste too much legacy pumpkin flesh (I don't have that much). Now I use the pumpkin flesh from my fields to feed new worms to 10%.

I still have to test if worms eat oatmeal cookies.

by **dageir** » Wed May 29, 2013 11:56 am

As far as I can see worms eat only "any plant". http://salemwiki.info/index.php/Any_Plant

by **Tamasin** » Wed May 29, 2013 4:57 pm

what do i do after my worms reach the same purity as the best stuff i can forage for them? i can't produce humus with more purity than my worms, so how will i grow higher purity pumpkin flesh to feed them?

by **martinuzz** » Wed May 29, 2013 9:29 pm

Tamasin wrote:what do i do after my worms reach the same purity as the best stuff i can forage for them? i can't produce humus with more purity than my worms, so how will i grow higher purity pumpkin flesh to feed them?

crops still get a random purity change per harvest cycle. So you can get slightly higher crops than your current humus, which you can in turn feed to your worms.

by **dageir** » Thu May 30, 2013 1:31 am

Of those crops that grow on fields only pumpkin yields worm food.

by **kozzy680** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 11:25 am

without legacy items with 50 90% purity its not possible even after year of grind to do more than 5% pure humus I think.

by **wiatrak** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 12:16 am

With legacy items i should hit ~23-25% humus, i would like to sell some boards but the cuttings grows so slow >.>(still waiting for ones from my 1st generation.... ~1,5 month?)

by **Tamasin** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:17 am

could someone please explain about the worm purity and board purity combine to produce the humus purity?
i have 6 3% pythons in my bin made from 6% boards, and the humus purity is 2%. why is it less than my worms? if my worms go up to say 4% or 5%, what humus purity will come then? if i get purer boards, will the humus be more pure?
how do i make it so i get humus of at least the same purity as my worms, so i can grow pumpkin flesh to feed them?

by **Snowpig** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:27 am

- The final purity of the compost bin is less than the purity of the boards, because nails and plugs are counted in as 0%.

- You don't need to have exactly or strict better purity of your humus than the desired target purity of your crop. A little bit less + luck with the RNG (which determines crop purity) can raise the purity of the crop. Yesterday I harvested 2% purity crop which was planted by using 1% purity humus.

- To further improve your humus, continue purity farming on your trees & replace your compost bins.