GlymeraComposter - Compost Organic Waste into Living Soil

A charming two-block composter. Drop plant and animal material into the top, and it slowly turns into Fertile Earth in the bottom - a special soil that makes crops grow far faster (until it wears out). Feed it by hand or wire it into your Bluestone for a fully automatic soil farm.

Pure server-side plugin - no client mod required.

What is GlymeraComposter?

GlymeraComposter adds a two-block-tall composter bin with a custom 3D model. The top half is an input, the bottom half an output - each a full double-chest of space. Throw in anything organic and the composter processes it bit by bit into Fertile Earth, a consumable fast-growth soil. Common greenery is cheap bulk; rarer materials are worth far more. Everything is configurable, and the whole thing plugs straight into Bluestone hoppers and pipes.

How It Works

1. Place the composter (it needs 2 blocks of vertical space).
2. Put organic material into the top bin - by hand, or via a hopper above.
3. The composter processes one item every few seconds; the rarer the material, the more of a batch it fills.
4. Collect Fertile Earth from the bottom - by hand, or via a hopper/pipe below or to the side.

Right-click either half to open it (no Bluestone required). Only the player who placed a composter (the owner) and server operators can break it. The composter never touches a container while someone has it open, so it is dupe-safe.

Fertile Earth - the fast-growth soil

The composter's default output is Fertile Earth, a special soil:

• Plant straight onto it - no hoe needed; normal crops grow right away.
• Much faster growth - the soil keeps itself permanently watered and fertilized, so crops race through their stages.
• It wears out - Fertile Earth is a consumable boost. After about 6 hours of loaded time (+/-10%) it dries into plain dry mud. Only time while the chunk is actually loaded counts - leaving the area or logging off pauses the clock, so it never decays while nobody is around.
• Prefer something else? Switch the output in the config to vanilla Fertilizer Bags, Crystal Earth, or any item id you like.

Crafting Recipe

The recipe can be turned off in the config.

Eats almost anything organic

680+ items are recognized: crops, fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, cacti, flowers, grass, leaves, moss, seaweed, raw & cooked meat, fish, eggs, manure, bonemeal, leather, hide, feathers and much more. Inorganic items are simply ignored.

Configuration

Generated at first startup: mods/de.glymera_GlymeraComposter/config.json (reload live with /gcomp reload).

The percentage each rarity tier fills, the working effect, plus an extraOrganics list (add your own items) and a blacklist (remove any) are all tunable too.

Commands

• /gcomp give - give yourself a Composter (OP)
• /gcomp givesoil - give yourself Fertile Earth (OP)
• /gcomp reload - reload config & catalog (OP)
• /gcomp info - placed count and current settings
• /gcomp fertcheck - diagnose the nearest Fertile Earth block (OP)

Features

• Custom 3D models & icons - a proper composter bin and a distinct Fertile Earth block
• Fertile Earth - plant-ready fast-growth soil that wears out over loaded time
• 680+ organic inputs with configurable rarity values
• Hand-operated and automation-ready - works standalone or with Bluestone hoppers/pipes
• Owner & OP protection and dupe-safe container handling
• Living compost effect rising from the open top while material is inside
• Lightweight - the wear timer spreads its work across ticks, staying cheap at any scale

Installation

1. Place GlymeraComposter-2.0.0.jar in your server's mods/ folder
2. Start (or restart) the server
3. Done!

Made with care by Glymera for the Hytale community