Spoilage

Spoilage

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Stack size	200
Rocket capacity	2000 (10 stacks)
Fuel value	250 KJ (burner)
Vehicle acceleration	50%
Vehicle top speed	50%
Prototype type	item
Internal name	spoilage
Consumed by
Used as fuel by

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Space Age expansion exclusive feature.

Spoilage is generated by letting most spoilable items spoil. This often happens on Gleba, but it can happen anywhere, notably with agricultural science packs or fish.

Spoilage can be directly harvested from stingfrond, sunnycomb, hairy clubnub and other flora present in Gleba. In addition, recycling nutrients will behave as if the nutrients were made using the nutrients from spoilage recipe, thereby yielding conciderably more spoilage than simply allowing the nutrients to spoil naturally.

Alternative recipes

Recipe	Ingredients	Result	Produced by	Crafted only on
	1 + 6	10% + 4
	1 + 3	10% + 1

Spoilage Mechanics

Most biological products on Gleba are "spoilable". A spoilable item has an inherent timer attached to it, which begins at the item's creation. When the timer reaches 0, the item is transformed into spoilage, with a few exceptions. This process is inevitable and cannot be stopped.

The exact time differs per item, ranging anywhere from a few minutes to 2 hours. This means that item throughput is more important than ever on Gleba, and buffering a large stockpile is ineffective, as items can spoil within containers.

When crafting with spoilable items, the final product will usually inherit the freshness value of any spoilable ingredients. The exceptions to these are any catalytic recipes which produce a spoilable product: iron and copper bacteria cultivation, pentapod eggs, and fish breeding. Catalytic recipes will always result in a 100% fresh product, regardless of the freshness of the ingredients.

When crafting with two different spoilable items of different freshness values, like in the agricultural science pack and bioflux recipes, the final product's freshness is determined by the average of the ingredients' freshness.

The agricultural science pack does spoil, which will gradually decrease its research value, so the player is incentivized to build a fast space platform to bring them back to Nauvis. While nutrients do spoil, their fuel value is not affected by their freshness.

Spoilable items are used as ingredients in a few non-spoilable items, such as the biochamber. In these, the freshness value of those ingredients has no effect on the product being produced.

Spoilable Item Times

Item	Time	Special effect on spoiling
Agricultural science pack	1 hour
Biter egg	30 minute	Spawns a Big Biter
Bioflux	2 hours
Copper bacteria	1 minute	Turns into copper ore
Raw fish	2 hours, 5 minutes, 50 seconds
Iron bacteria	1 minute	Turns into iron ore
Jelly	4 minutes
Jellynut	1 hour
Nutrients	5 minutes
Pentapod egg	15 minutes	Spawns a wriggler
Yumako	1 hour
Yumako mash	3 minutes

History

• 2.0.7:
  • Introduced in Space Age expansion.

See also

• Gleba