Mechanical Crafter

Mechanical Crafters are machines that can automatically craft items.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Crafting Recipe
Mechanical Crafter	Electron Tube + Cogwheel + Brass Casing + Crafting Table	File:Mechanical Crafter (Recipe).png

Usage

Setup

Right click on the front of a Mechanical Crafter to place a held item into it. Right click the front of a Mechanical Crafter with an empty hand to take an item out of the Mechanical Crafter. Right click the front of the Mechanical Crafter with a Wrench to change the direction it sends items during crafting.

Mechanical Crafters can also be automatically filled by funnels or hoppers.

On the back and sides of Mechanical Crafters, a Wrench can be used to connect or disconnect two adjacent crafters.

Power

Each Mechanical Crafter has an internal gear that can only be powered by adjacent Mechanical Crafters or any size Cogwheel.

Auto-Crafting

When powered by rotational force, Mechanical Crafters will begin to send their items to the other Crafters they face. The Crafters should face towards each other in a flow towards a final Crafter. Once all of the items reach the final Crafter, they will turn into the product. Crafters with Slot Covers act as empty spaces in a recipe. Mechanical Crafters will always wait for the items from previous Crafters' items before sending their own items along.

Mechanical Crafters only start crafting once every connected Mechanical Crafter either has a slot cover or an item. Two sets of Mechanical Crafters can be adjacent yet completely independent as long as they are not connected at any place. If there is a completely empty Crafter next to a setup of filled ones, the Crafters will still craft as long as the empty Crafter is not connected to the setup. Empty connected Crafters prevent crafting from happening (unless manually started via redstone power).

Powering a Crafter setup with a redstone signal starts the crafting process immediately, regardless of whether all of the Crafters are filled.

Mechanical Crafters are able to assemble invalid crafting recipes, but will eject the items once they are together instead of turning them into the crafting product.

Output

Once a recipe is assembled in the final Crafter, the item will either be placed into the inventory of the block the Crafter faces, or will be ejected into the world if no such block exists.

If the final Crafter directs the finished product back into the recipe, the item must be manually removed from the Crafters by a player.

Mechanical Crafting Exclusive Recipes

Certain recipes cannot be crafted with regular Crafting tables and require the use of Mechanical Crafters. These recipes are the Integrated Circuit, the Gilded Quartz Tools, the Furnace Engine, the Crushing Wheel, and the Flywheel.