Originally posted by MachaQueso:

Is it me or bio waste got massively nerfed around 1.0.0.18?

I've been playing the same map for over a year and it looks like there is a massive reduction in the amount of bio waste produced, maybe all waste.

My republic used to produce enough bio waste to keep 3 large farms fully loaded with fertilizer and exported the rest. After around the game upgraded to 1.0.0.18, I barely produce enough fertilizer for a single farm and my bio waste stores are empty.

maybe you had some crops decay on the field and that no longer happens?

Originally posted by Alukat:

maybe you had some crops decay on the field and that no longer happens?

Most plausible! If you manage to get every single bit of crop from the fields before winter, not only that the next year the fertility will be lower, but you'll need more fertilizer.

As I wrote recently in another thread

Originally posted by Lord Metzgermeister:

It's always fair to assume first and foremost that whatever issue you're having was caused by you at some point. Or as we say in IT - the problem is somewhere between the chair and the computer.

In this case it's quite simple, since the game already made its full release, we can't expect such massive rebalance changes.

Originally posted by Alukat:

maybe you had some crops decay on the field and that no longer happens?

I don't think that was an issue: my republic with over 60K population had been producing so much fertilizer I had to export the excess to keep the bio waste stores from filling up backing up collection.

Just the bio waste from 2 cattle farms was enough to keep the compost plant full of fertilizer to pick up. This setup has been running like that for over 40 in-game years.

Since around the 1.0.0.18 patch, my compost plant has no enough bio waste to create fertilizer to keep my farms supplied anymore.

Look in "economy and trade"/"Domestic production" tab/"waste production - people" - here you can see statistics on how much biological waste was created by residents. Does it match the graph of the number of residents or is there an unusual decrease?
Plus the same for industrial waste.

Originally posted by melkij:

Look in "economy and trade"/"Domestic production" tab/"waste production - people" - here you can see statistics on how much biological waste was created by residents. Does it match the graph of the number of residents or is there an unusual decrease?
Plus the same for industrial waste.

Thanks to your suggestion, here are the screenshots: Industry bio waste[imgur.com], People bio waste[imgur.com]

There is a dip of about 25% in bio waste production from people starting on 2039, my first save from that year was on November 29, 2024 which matches with the release of 1.0.0.10

At that point, I had so much bio waste surplus, my stored fertilizer lasted for another 2 in-game years.