Supercompost

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Supercompost
Release	11 July 2005 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Values
Value	85 coins Cash out: 51 coins
High alch	51 coins
Low alch	34 coins
On death	Reclaimable Reclaim: 362 Sacrifice: 1,448
Weight	3 kg
Examine
Super-good for the smallest or largest of plants.
Grand Exchange
Exchange	2,414 coins (info)
Buy limit	10,000
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Advanced data
Item ID	6034
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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Supercompost is a more potent version of compost and is used in conjunction with the Farming skill. For many farming plots, supercompost reduces the chance of a player's crops becoming diseased while growing (better than regular compost does), as well as increasing the minimum amount of produce from the crops. For herb and allotment patches, using compost will increase the number of harvest lives by 2. Up to 2,000 supercompost may be stored at the tool leprechaun. Supercompost has a green colour, while compost has a green-brown colour, when in the compost bin or bucket.

The chance of a plant that has been treated with supercompost dying is 14%. With ultracompost it's 7%.

To make supercompost, a player must place 15 suitable organic items (see below) into any of the compost bins that are located next to the allotment patches found around RuneScape. Note that supercompostable items added to a compost bin on a free-to-play world will create normal compost, not supercompost. Once the suitable items have been added, and the lid of the compost bin closed, the contents will begin to rot, taking 90 minutes until completion. During this time the player will not be able to open the compost bin or add any more items.

Once the supercompost has finished rotting, the player may open the compost bin and extract all of the supercompost by using a bucket on it. Altogether one full bin will yield 15 buckets of supercompost. Each bucket of supercompost collected by the player will grant that player 8.5 Farming experience. When used on a farming patch, each bucket will grant an additional 26 experience.

Alternatively, players can add a dose of compost potion into a ready full compost bin to create supercompost.

Pet droppings from Legendary Pets special move Fertiliser also yield 6 supercompost on members worlds. Rarely they may instead give the Easter eggs of Mod Dolan's rubber duck or Mod Daze's homework.

Supercompost items

Some suitable items (selected cheapest) are listed below, but for certainty, use the item on the farmer by the patch and they will tell if the item makes compost or supercompost.

Item		Price	GE Limit
	Oak roots	940	100
	Willow roots	680	100
	Maple roots	504	100
	Calquat fruit	398	100
	Coconut shell	126	1000
	Pineapple	539	1000
	Watermelon	614	10000
	Grapes of Guthix	Untradeable	N/A
	Green manure	Untradeable	N/A
	Peaches	Untradeable	N/A
	Pungent vine	Untradeable	N/A
	White tree fruit	Untradeable	N/A

Quick supercompost

By far the cheapest supercompostable item is coconut shells. For non-ironmen, there is no excuse to do anything other than buy coconut shells on the grand exchange and put them in compost bins to get supercompost whenever you need to. By putting in another set of coconut shells when you collect the supercompost, you will never be able to run out.

Ironmen instead may pick pineapples in the Brimhaven jungle, directly north of the Karamja lodestone. Each plant yields 5 pineapples each, and the nearby leprechauns can note pineapples, without the need for banking. If you pick pineapples, come with at least 26 empty inventory spots (one for the notes and 25 for the pineapples). World hopping is highly recommended. Other ways of collecting pineapples include

• 40 noted pineapples every day from Dell Monti near the POH portal in Brimhaven after completing the easy Karamja Tasks.
• 40 pineapples purchasable per day from Arhein, at the pier in Catherby, for 2 coins each. He must be talked to in order to buy the pineapples, as they aren't on sold through the shop interface.

Alternatively, if on an ironman account the player finds it easier to gather items compostable for normal compost, they may purchase compost potions from the Vinesweeper minigame for 5,000 points. One dose of compost potion can be used on a full compost bin to turn compost inside the bin into supercompost. This means each potion can gather you 60 buckets of supercompost.

Making Profit from supercompost

• Supercompost currently sells on the Grand Exchange for 2,414.
  • Since each supercompostable item produces one bucket of supercompost, the profit of supercomposting coconut shells, assuming they are bought on the Grand Exchange as well as buckets, is 2,176 each

Drop sources

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For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity	Members
Automaton Generator	84; 115	15 (noted)	3/40
Automaton Guardian	84; 115	15 (noted)	Uncommon
Automaton Tracer	84; 115	15 (noted)	3/50
Crwys worker	97	1 (noted)	Uncommon	N/A
Earth impling jar	N/A	2 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Earth impling	36	2 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Farming crate (small)	?	7–13	Random
Mutated zygomite	58; 65	1–3 (noted)	Uncommon

Disassembly

Disassembly category	Food and herbs
Disassembly XP	0.6
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  78.0% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 78.0% 1 34 77.3 2 49 75.7 3 64 74.1 4 69 72.6 5 78 71.0 6 83 68.7 7 91 67.1 8 95 64.8 9 105 62.4
Possible materials
Often
Organic parts	89/100
Sometimes
Crafted parts	8/100
Rarely
Living components	1/100
Healthy components	1/100
Enhancing components	1/100

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Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched.
See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information.

Reduction		Junk chance
None	1	78.0%
1	34	77.3
2	49	75.7
3	64	74.1
4	69	72.6
5	78	71.0
6	83	68.7
7	91	67.1
8	95	64.8
9	105	62.4

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Update history

The update history project is a work-in-progress – not all updates to this topic may be covered below. See here for how to help out!

• ninja 6 February 2017 (Update):
  • You can now add compost to a patch after planting something.

See also

• Calculators/Supercompost
• Fertile Soil