Composter

Production Gourmet farm

I count the composter among the buildings nobody admires but that genuinely raise your field yields - it's worth leaving it running non-stop from the moment it unlocks.

Quick overview

Farm	Gourmet farm
Category	Production
Size	6 × 6
From level	25
Max level	7
Price	40 000 Dollars
Build time	1 h 50 min
Workers	4
Priority	Build from level 25

What it's for

The composter makes fallen leaves into humus. When used, humus increases the harvest from a field.

The composter is a processing building on the Gourmet farm that turns leaves into humus, which raises the yield from your cultivated fields. It takes up a fairly large 6x6 space and opens in the shop at player level 25. Unlike the animal buildings, this isn't about a visible product to sell, it's about supporting your fields in the background. It's meant for players who care about their fields on the gourmet farm earning as much as possible.

When to build it

Build the composter once you have enough cultivated fields on the gourmet farm for the humus bonus to show at all, so feel free to do it right at level 25. One is usually enough, because this isn't about speed but about a regular supply of humus. Take the higher levels (37, 62, 79, 84, 89, 152) gradually as your player level grows, not all at once in advance.

Is it worth upgrading

Upgrading makes sense mainly for the time - at level one you make one humus from 30 leaves in 1 hour 20 minutes, at the top level that same single humus comes from just 20 leaves in 6 minutes. The amount of humus per batch stays the same, so higher levels don't raise your output, they make production cheaper on leaves and much faster. The last levels are hard on the wallet (17,000,000 dollars and almost 3 days of building at level seven), so I schedule them by my current player level rather than planning ahead.

Tip from a veteran player I keep the composter running almost non-stop in the background - even small batches of humus add up over time into a noticeably higher yield from my fields.

Most common mistake It's common to build the composter and then forget about it, because humus isn't a product you'd sell - the result is fields earning less than they could with a regular supply of humus.

Building levels

Level	Price	Build time	XP	Workers	From level
1	40 000 Dollars	1 h 50 min	500	4	25
2	320 000 Dollars	10 h 10 min	2 100	8	37
3	1 200 000 Dollars	16 h	4 200	12	62
4	3 500 000 Dollars	1 d 3 h	6 300	16	79
5	6 200 000 Dollars	1 d 14 h	8 400	20	84
6	10 000 000 Dollars	2 d 3 h 6 min	9 800	24	89
7	17 000 000 Dollars	2 d 23 h 40 min	11 500	28	152

Production at level 1

Output	Ingredients	Time	Cost	XP
60070 × 1 Experience points × 100	Fallen leaves × 30	1 h 20 min	3 762 Dollars	—

Game data, version 8052 (14. 8. 2026).

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