Compost bins don't need worms?

[Reviresco]

What about purity and efficiency over 100%? If I have 10 pythons with purity 20% that's efficiency 160 and I'm getting 20% purity humus. Now if a non-pure worm is spawned, what would be new purity of humus until I remove that worm? I'd expect something like 19.5 but somehow I feel that I get lower than that.

I believe it averages their purity. More pythons would just make them produce humus faster, up to efficiency 100%.

I'm not an expert, though.

[Thor]

Non-pure worms will always lower the purity of your new humus when they spawn regardless of your worm efficiency. I don't know the math but even with 100% eff. it is significantly lower.

[Taipion]

Non-pure worms will always lower the purity of your new humus when they spawn regardless of your worm efficiency. I don't know the math but even with 100% eff. it is significantly lower.

yea, if you want minimal effect of that, you'd need to have 20 or so pythons

[wolfman22]

How about field purity? How can I raise that?

[Zapt13]

Naturally through farming it. 0% field + 0% pure seeds will have some small random change in purity, perhaps the resulting crop will be 0.42% pure. Replant these seeds on the field, new purity might be 0.65% pure. Repeat.

Also, if you have pure seeds and plant on a 0% field, the resulting field purity will only raise 1% per planting cycle. So 0% field + 50% seeds results in 1% field after harvest. I believe the crop will come out somewhere between the field and seed purity, humus purity doesn't matter.

So if you have 10 fields of cotton, keep the most pure seeds for the replanting. That way you'll roll the dice 10 times on the random purity improvement and keep the best result (provided you had enough plenty to replant all of the fields).

[TotalyMeow]

Lower purity fields are weighted to be likely to produce crops of higher purity than them so you can get a quick start. So, yeah, don't bother trying to boost it by buying high purity seeds. Might try it at higher purities though.

[reeper_aut]

you can speed up with fertilizers that boost speed. such as dross.
have fields going on 600% speed and you can harvest every day.

i keep 1 field ahead of my others, so i have slightly higher seeds for them.
it's a guaranteed +1% per harvest on them
also you get better food to raise purity on your worms as well

[tack]

dont forget the worms also make good turkey feed as well and the odd python gets them there birds fed even quicker