Mechanical Bearing

The Mechanical Bearing is meant to create and rotate moving structures.

Obtaining

Breaking

A Mechanical Bearing requires a pickaxe to be mined, in which case it drops itself. If mined without a pickaxe, then the mining is slower and it drops nothing.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Crafting Recipe
Mechanical Bearing	Turntable + Andesite Alloy + Andesite Casing + Shaft	File:Mechanical Bearing (Recipe).png

Wrench

Shift-right-clicking on a Mechanical Bearing with a Wrench will destroy the Mechanical Bearing and place it in your inventory.

Usage

Moving Structure Creation

Linear Chassis, Radial Chassis, or Super Glue can be used to create a moving structure. Sails will also automatically connect to blocks, and attaching blocks like torches or levers will become part of the structure as well. Otherwise, the bearing will only move the immediate block.

Structure Behavior

Moving Structures can interact with the world if they are equipped with Mechanical Saws, Harvesters, Drills, Ploughs, or Portable Interfaces for fluid or storage. They can also create redstone signals with Redstone Contacts.

The moving structure has no collision with blocks unless the appropriate world-interaction block makes the collision. However, the structure always has collision with the player, mobs, or items.

The structure's behavior when ceasing movement can be adjusted with a Wrench. It can be told to place the blocks: always, only near the initial angle, or never.

If another Mechanical Bearing is used within the structure, facing the same way as the original, the blocks attached to that bearing will keep their alignment as the rest of the structure moves.