Bone powder fertilizer turns animal waste and bone byproducts into an input for crop plots, helping keep a farm supplied without repeating an iron run.
PC / Global / 1.0, base island; Shifting Sands DLC excluded unless noted
WHERE & HOW TO FARM
Where to farm
At a Fertilizer Bucket in your base, with feces and bone powder ingredients collected from your established production and gathering sources.
Use a Fertilizer Bucket to convert feces and Bone Powder or Phosphorous Powder into Bone Powder Fertilizer. First check the crop’s listed fertilizer requirement: plots do not all accept the same fertilizer. The route is useful when livestock or an Outhouse provides feces and hunting or other production leaves bone powder available. Collect the finished fertilizer and deliver it to the Granary or the farm supply point used for that crop.
Unlock Fertilizer under Crop Planting and build a Fertilizer Bucket.
Collect feces from livestock or an Outhouse.
Have Bone Powder or Phosphorous Powder and storage space for the finished fertilizer.
Check the fertilizer requirement of the crop you plan to grow so you make the right type.
Place or access a Fertilizer Bucket at your base and open its production options.
Gather feces from livestock or an Outhouse; keep it separate from food and crafting stock.
Collect Bone Powder or Phosphorous Powder from your available supplies.
Select the Bone Powder Fertilizer recipe and provide the listed feces and powder ingredients.
Take the completed fertilizer from the bucket and stock it with the crop supplies at the Granary or farm.
Let the Granary worker tend the supplied plot, then collect harvested crops from Granary storage when capacity allows.
Farming tips
Keep a reserve of powder for other crafting before committing the remainder to fertilizer.
If several crops need different inputs, label or separate fertilizer stores to prevent stocking a plot with the wrong type.
Repeat, collect and use
Repeat the batch whenever feces and powder are available and the target crop needs Bone Powder Fertilizer; this is a renewable production loop, limited by ingredient supply and storage.
Common mistakes
Assuming every crop uses this fertilizer: check the crop requirement first and produce its matching type.
Using all available bone powder: reserve what other recipes require before processing a batch.
Leaving finished fertilizer in a full bucket or storage area: collect it and make room before starting another batch.
When to stop or switch
Stop when the intended plot has enough fertilizer for its next tending cycle or when the powder reserve is needed elsewhere; resume when ingredients replenish.
