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Farming Nutrients AI

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ArgualLeothon

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May 12th at 7:44 PM

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May 17th at 5:06 PM

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Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.22.0 - 1.22.2, potentially outdated):
manureecology-1.2.1.zip  1-click install

Manure Ecology

A Vintage Story mod that adds a realistic manure production and composting system for domesticated animals. Collect manure from your livestock, process it into compost mash, ferment it in a barrel, and apply the result as a rich organic fertilizer.

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How It Works

Animal Manure Production

Domesticated animals periodically drop manure at their feet. Wild animals do not produce manure — only animals that were bred in captivity (generation 1 or higher) are eligible.

Each animal must also meet two additional conditions to produce manure:

• Fully grown — juveniles do not produce manure
• Well-fed — the animal must be at least 50% fed (configurable)

When an eligible animal produces manure it is placed on the ground beneath the animal as a stackable ground item, up to a configurable maximum per tile. Collect it before the pile reaches capacity.

Default Species

Animal	Manure type	Hours per item
Chicken	Rich	8 h
Sheep	Dark	8 h
Hare	Dense	8 h
Pig	Dry	8 h
Goat	Dark	8 h
Tamed Deer	Dark	8 h

The species list, manure type, and production rate are all fully configurable.

Composting Process

Raw manure cannot be applied directly to farmland. It must first be mixed with a dry organic binder and then fermented in a sealed barrel.

Step 1 — Mix (crafting grid)

Combine manure with hay or thatch in the crafting grid to produce compost mash:

Manure type	Manure	Hay / Thatch	Output
Rich / Dense	8	2 hay or 4 thatch	4 compost mash
Dry / Dark	4	2 hay or 4 thatch	4 compost mash

Step 2 — Ferment (barrel)

Fill a barrel with 64 compost mash and seal it. After 336 in-game hours (14 days) the mash converts into 16 compost, ready to be applied to farmland.

Fertilizer Values

Each compost type has different nutrient concentrations (N = nitrogen, P = phosphorus, K = potassium):

Compost	N	P	K
Rich Manure Compost	30	15	15
Dense Manure Compost	15	30	15
Dry Manure Compost	15	15	30
Dark Manure Compost	20	20	20

Manure Weathering

Naturally generated ground manure piles are affected by water and rain.

Liquid contact — if a liquid (water, etc.) flows into a tile occupied by a manure pile, the pile is immediately cleared. By default the items are dropped as a pickable ground entity so nothing is lost; this can be changed to silent removal via config.

Rain — while it is raining on a sky-exposed manure pile, each cleanup interval there is a small chance that one unit is removed from the pile. By default units are silently removed (no item entity is spawned) to avoid entity spam; this can be changed via config. A pile fully washed away by rain is gone permanently.

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Configuration

Config file: VintagestoryData/ModConfig/manureecology.json

The file is created automatically with defaults on first load.

General

Key	Default	Description
TickIntervalMs	10000	How often the server checks animals for manure production, in milliseconds
MaxGroundItemsPerBlock	12	Maximum manure items that can stack on a single ground tile before production stops
MinimumGenerationForDomesticated	1	Minimum animal generation required for manure production. 0 = no restriction (wild animals also produce)
RequireNoGrowBehaviorForAdult	true	When true, only fully-grown animals (no juvenile grow behavior) produce manure
WellFedThreshold	0.5	Fraction of maximum saturation required for production (0–1). 0 = no hunger check
DebugLogging	false	Enable verbose per-tick logging to the server log

Weathering

Key	Default	Description
WaterClearsManure	true	When true, liquid contact immediately clears a manure pile
LiquidClearDropsItem	true	When true, liquid-cleared manure is dropped as a pickable item entity; when false it is silently removed
RainClearDropsItem	false	When true, each rain-removed unit spawns a pickable item entity; keep false to avoid entity spam
RainCleanupChance	0.1	Probability (0=0%; 1=100%) that one unit is removed per interval while it is raining on the pile
RainCleanupIntervalMs	5000	How often (in milliseconds) to check each exposed manure pile for rain removal

Species

A list of rules that map animal entity codes to a manure type and production rate. Each entry has:

Key	Description
MatchToken	Substring matched against the entity code (case-insensitive). e.g. "chicken" matches creature-chicken-female, creature-chicken-male, etc.
ManureType	One of rich, dense, dry, or dark
HoursPerProduct	In-game hours between each manure item being produced

Example entry:

{
  "MatchToken": "chicken",
  "ManureType": "rich",
  "HoursPerProduct": 8.0
}

To add a custom animal, append an entry to the Species array. The first rule whose MatchToken appears in the entity code wins.