Sludge Press

The Sludge Press is a building that processes Mud into two separate outputs, producing 90 kg of one material and 60 kg of another from a 150 kg batch. A Duplicant with 0 Machinery takes 20 seconds to complete one operation, so the building’s minimum Mud consumption rate is 7.5 kg/s.

Because the recipe consumes a full 150 kg per batch, its throughput is easy to estimate when planning supply lines or storage. At the listed baseline speed, one Sludge Press can steadily convert Mud without needing especially high Machinery skill, but the batch size means it is most useful when backed by a reliable stockpile of Mud rather than intermittent trickles.

• Each batch consumes 150 kg of Mud.
• Each batch outputs 90 kg and 60 kg of materials.
• At 0 Machinery, one operation takes 20 seconds.
• The minimum processing rate is 7.5 kg/s.

The building’s role is straightforward: it turns Mud into useful resources in a fixed ratio, making it a simple mid-chain processing step rather than a complex production machine. Its value comes from providing a way to handle Mud at scale, especially when a base has enough input to keep the machine running continuously.