Compost rotten bowls

[Kevin Eric Snell]

Just a minor thing. I had to deal with my first bowl of rotten food today, which only happened because I got sloppy and wandered away with the game running. I ran into the documented problem of "how do you get rid of a bowl of rotten food" and was immediately frustrated by the fact I couldn't just throw it in the compost barrel, as I'm still trying to boost up my compost reserves and build terra preta.

Another thread in the Questions section informed me I could throw the bowls into the water to clean them. Okay, fine, but the rot is wasted, and now I was stuck with a bowl of water, which I found was equally hard to dispose of. In order to get my empty bowl back, I had to fill up several bowls and whip up some dough. So anyway, suggestion is allow us to throw bowls of rot into the compost and bowls of water into... anything, really.

[Brady_The]

22 minutes ago, Kevin Eric Snell said:

Okay, fine, but the rot is wasted

How's the rot wasted? You can still put it in a barrel to create compost.

23 minutes ago, Kevin Eric Snell said:

now I was stuck with a bowl of water, which I found was equally hard to dispose of

Ctrl+Click to empty the bowl.

[Kevin Eric Snell]

Didn't work when I tried it, but I could try again next time

[LadyWYT]

I don't know that ctrl + right-click empties a bowl of rot, but it should empty a bowl of water. I seem to recall sticking a dish of rot into an empty barrel slot emptied the rot into the barrel, although it's been ages since I've needed to clean a dish so I'm not certain if that would work or not.

Honestly though, when it comes to getting rot for compost...I would just wash the bowl in the water and be done with it. It's only 1 unit worth of rot, and you need 64 rot to get 16 compost. It's much more efficient to let meat, unneeded hides, and unneeded berries rot, as those are all things that you can acquire with relative ease and that have a rather short shelf life. Speed up the time it takes to decompose by shoving the items in a box in the warmest spot you can find, preferably a greenhouse.