Short answer
Peat is made from Leaf at the Compost Pile (8 Leaf → 2 Peat) or Compost Pile II (16 Leaf → 5 Peat), and both finish on their own once started. The Compost Chemist perk doubles that to 4 and 10. No trader sells or buys Peat, but the three Village toilets each give 2 when emptied and refill after 30 minutes. On a Garden Bed or Vine Trellis it is a fertilizer worth +1 Farming mastery.

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Compost Pile
Built in the Garden for 2 Board and 12 Stick once Fertilizers I is researched.
8 Leaf become 2 Peat in 3 ticks. It is an auto-crafter: start the recipe and walk away.

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Compost Pile II
Built for 12 Short Log, 8 Bronze Nails and 2 Bronze Detail once Fertilizers III is researched.
16 Leaf become 5 Peat in 5 ticks — a better ratio than the first pile.
Compost Chemist doubles it
The Farming talent perk Compost Chemist (after Green Thumb) raises the piles to 4 and 10 Peat per batch.
It also doubles every Formulation Bench fertilizer recipe — see our fertilizer guide.
The Village toilets
Three toilets in the Village each give 2 Peat and 2 green tech points when emptied.
Emptying one costs 1 energy and adds 0.1 insanity. They refill on their own after 30 minutes at normal speed.
Peat as fertilizer
1 Peat on a Garden Bed or Vine Trellis adds +1 Farming mastery to that bed, for wheat, carrot, flax, beet, cabbage, onion, pumpkin, hops and grapes.
It needs a free fertilizer slot: Fertilizers I gives a bed its first, Fertilizers II a second.
Everything else it builds
Fertilizers: Headstart I and II, Crop Boosting I and Farming I to III at the Formulation Bench — Farming Fertilizer III alone takes 8.
Buildings: Flower Bed I, II and III (3, 6 and 12), Garden Upgrade I (10), the Orchard (10) and the Vine Trellis (3).
Alchemy: Peat is 1 green + 1 blue rune. It is a full Dream Dust on its own, and Peat + Peat + Beeswax makes Alkali.
Sources
- communitywikily.gg — Peat
- communitywikily.gg — Compost Pile
- communitywikily.gg — Compost Chemist
- communitywikily.gg — Village toilet
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