Food

Grub

A pale, fleshy insect that can be used for bait. Could also be eaten in desperate situations.

Stack: ×25

Effects when used

Items per use: 1

Calories: +3
Hydration: -15

Healing over time shows the total restored health.

Growing, fishing & husbandry

Fishing criteria & bait

Fish / catchPrevious catchBaitWater typeBait items in slotOcean water depth, m

Bait items consumed per cast: 1, Effective bait level: 3.5

This checks static criteria, not a catch probability. The game excludes the previous fish, scans candidates in a randomized order, applies a bait-adjusted candidate threshold, and can return a fallback. Overfishing can replace the result with junk. Ocean depth bounds apply only when the Ocean water tag is present; the game can combine tags and determines the actual tag at the cast point.

Eligibility for selected criteria
Catch	Required bait / water	Result	Model probability
Water BucketJunk	0–2.5Any water tag	Bait level	0%
Diving FinsJunk	0–2.5Any water tag	Bait level	0%
Anchovy	0–5Moon pool / River / Ocean / Swamp	Criteria metNominal bite wait: 6.43–15.43 sec	25%
Catfish	5+River / Swamp	Bait level, Water type	0%
Herring	0–5Moon pool / River / Ocean / Swamp	Criteria metNominal bite wait: 6.43–15.43 sec	25%
Orange Roughy	5+Moon pool	Bait level, Water type	0%
Salmon	5+Any water tagOcean depth: 4.5+ m	Bait level	0%
Sardine	0–5Any water tag	Criteria metNominal bite wait: 6.43–15.43 sec	25%
Small Shark	5+Moon pool / Ocean / Deep seaOcean depth: 5.5+ m	Bait level, Ocean depth	0%
Small Trout	3+Moon pool / Ocean / Deep sea	Criteria metNominal bite wait: 7.43–17.43 sec	25%
Yellow Perch	3+River / Swamp	Water type	0%
Human SkullJunk	0–2.5Any water tag	Bait level	0%
Small Water BottleJunk	0–2.5Any water tag	Bait level	0%
TarpJunk	0–2.5Any water tag	Bait level	0%
Water JugJunk	0–2.5Any water tag	Bait level	0%

Probabilities average over uniformly shuffled candidate orders and include the fallback catch. The running server keeps an unknown order; actual probabilities can differ. Assumes no overfishing override, unchanged server rules and the selected previous catch.

The bite-wait range assumes the normal hook timer, the selected fish and bait, and no server overrides. It excludes reeling time and uses the bait item's base value, not its stacked level.

Default overfishing settings: 25 successful catches, 16 m radius, 30 minutes. Current server settings and area state are unknown.

Production processes

Conversions, fuel byproducts and device recipes. Each batch uses the input quantities shown below.

CompostingGrub → Fertilizer

Process batches

Consumed inputs
Grub	×1

Expected output
Fertilizer	×0.15

An average over many operations, not a guaranteed result for this quantity. Fractional output uses probabilistic rounding.

Native progress per consumed item: 300 sec. This is progress, not elapsed device time. The device divides its speed among active input stacks; pause, power, fuel and free output space affect completion.

The first item's timer depends on server.composterUpdateInterval; subsequent native progress is shown above. Exact elapsed time is unconfirmed.