Supercompost

Supercompost

Release date	11 July 2005 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	Yes
Equipable?	No
Stacks?	No
High Alch	51 coins
Low Alch	34 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	Not sold
Examine	Super-good for the smallest or largest of plants.
Weight	3 kg

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A detailed image of supercompost.

Supercompost is a more potent version of compost and is used in conjunction with the Farming skill. Supercompost reduces the chance of a player's crops becoming diseased while growing (better than regular compost does), as well as increasing the minimum and maximum amount of produce from the crops. Up to 255 supercompost may be stored in a tool leprechaun.

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. 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. Supercompost has a green colour, while compost has a green-brown colour, when in the compost bin or bucket.

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.

Dropping monsters

Monster	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Mutated zygomite	74,86	1–3	3Uncommon

Supercompost items

Some suitable items 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.

Name	G.E. Price		Notes
	Product	Seed
Pineapples			Grown in Fruit tree patches, for more information see: Quick supercompost, below
Coconut shells			Grown in Fruit tree patches
Calquat			Grown in Calquat patch at Tai Bwo Wannai village
Watermelons			Grown in Allotment patches
Bittercap mushrooms			Grown in Mushroom patch at Canifis
Jangerberries			Grown in (Bush patch; Respawn on Ogre island, west of Yanille
All Tree roots	Varies		Dug-up from trees in normal Tree patches; Oak to Magic
Pungent vine	Untradeable		Stackable item from catching Carrion jadinkos in Herblore Habitat
White tree fruit	Untradeable		Freely obtainable after (and in the) Garden of Tranquillity

The following items have a significantly higher value and use than supercompost. As such it would not be economically sound to use them for it, although one could.

• Morchella mushrooms, White berries, Poison ivy berries, Toadflax, Avantoe, Kwuarm, Snapdragon, Cadantine, Lantadyme, Dwarf weed, Torstol, Fellstalk, Papayas.

Quick supercompost

• A quick and cheap way to get materials for making supercompost is by using pineapples.
  • Pineapples may be picked in the Brimhaven Jungle (directly south of the POH portal). Each plant in the Brimhaven Jungle yields 5 pineapples each, and the nearby leprechauns can note pineapples, without the need for banking. The calquat fruit is nearby for easy harvesting. 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.
  • Fruitfall scrolls for the Fruit bat can also be used to obtain pineapples among limes, papayas (every scroll), oranges, lemons and bananas.
  • Players can get 40 noted pineapples every day from Dell Monti near the POH portal in Brimhaven after completing the easy Karamja Diary.
  • Players may purchase 40 pineapples per day from Arhein, who is very close to the Catherby compost bin, for 2gp each.
  • Finally pineapples may be purchased on the Grand Exchange for gp each, but it is also worth considering Calquat fruit or Watermelon as alternatives, as they currently sell on the Grand Exchange for gp each and gp each respectively.
• Alternatively, compost potions can be obtained from the Vinesweeper activity for 5,000 points, or at the Grand Exchange. These potions can be used on a compost bin, which turns the normal compost inside the bin into supercompost. This generates 15 buckets of supercompost. Compost potions have 4 doses, so a single potion can produce 60 buckets of supercompost.

See also

• Calculators/Supercompost
• Fertile Soil