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The recycler tooltip says that "Other items are ... turned to spoilage if they were biological." However, the only recycler recipes I can find that output spoilage are Nutrients, Agricultural tower, Efficiency module 3, Overgrowth jellynut soil, and Overgrowth yumako soil.

Recycling biological products other than Nutrients, such as Yumako mash or Bioflux, just returns 25% of the input.


The expected behaviors are either (a) the tooltip says "Nutrients are turned to spoilage" or (b) biological items should produce spoilage when fed into the Recycler. (I would define 'biological items' as Nutrients, Yumako and Yumako mash, Jellynut and Jelly, Bioflux, Copper and Iron bacteria, Biter and Pentapod eggs, wood, fish, seeds, possibly Artificial and Overgrowth soils, and possibly Agriculture science packs.)
(Ag tower, Efficiency 3 and Overgrowth are expected to produce some spoilage regardless of the tooltip because their recipes require it.)

I already reported this: 123176

I don't think that tooltip is about nutrients specifically, but rather some mechanic the dev's were going to implement but didn't for some reason.

So you did. I searched for "turned to spoilage", but your post didn't turn up.

And yes, wood, fish, and seeds should be added to my list.

DaleStan wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 11:47 am So you did. I searched for "turned to spoilage", but your post didn't turn up.

And yes, wood, fish, and seeds should be added to my list.

Hmm, maybe I should do some SEO when making bug reports in the future.