Cleaner: enable the method, then feed it soot
Cleaner reference
| Construction | 5 Iron, 5 Steel, 4 Stone, 6 Tools, 6 Planks |
|---|---|
| Power | No external power requirement in the Buildings table |
| Output / service | Pollution removal using Soot and Water, or Chemicals; task times listed as 4 and 8 seconds |
| Adjacency | One Sludge Dehydrator: +20% speed. Three Forests: -20% speed. |
| Pollution | None |
Source: Cleaner on the official community wiki; power requirement table and pollution reference. These are documented wiki values, not measured throughput. Task duration is not units per second; staffing, hauling and active methods affect production. Conflicting source fields are labeled rather than resolved by guessing.
The Cleaner’s job is the pollution that has not yet become a Toxic Area. The official FAQ says you must enable its production method; players describe the soot-and-water option as starting unchecked. A tile at high pollution for 15 minutes is no longer this building’s job — that is the Toxic Tile Scraper. The symptom checklist, including stuck placement, is the fix page, not a second copy of the rules.
- Input is soot. The burner and the ore smelter are the sources I will name. Cycle times are not official.
- The Pollution System discussion contains differing reports about soot-and-water methods. Read the active Work method rather than treating one player’s inputs or radius as universal.
- In Polluted Riverbed, Solutions?, players report missed underwater tiles and suggest a nearby tree. The developer-marked answer supports that workaround, not a general guarantee.
- Connect the road, fill all worker slots inside housing range, and inspect resource warnings. Do not infer an undocumented Cleaner waste output from the general by-product rule.
Construction cost and task times are documented in the wiki reference above, not measured in-game here. Its unlock fields conflict: the infobox names Chemical Factory, while the prose says 50 Soot from the Burner Generator. The official FAQ distinguishes early Cleaners from toxic-tile scrapers; the wiki describes later Chemical cleaning for toxic ground. Do not apply that later method to the starter Soot-and-Water task or assume the listed task durations specify cleanup per cycle.
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