Mechanical Mixer

The Mechanical Mixer is a mechanical component that applies Mixing recipes and shapeless Crafting recipes to items in Basins.

Obtaining

Breaking

Mechanical Mixer can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing.

Hardness	1.5
Tool
Breaking time
Default	7.5
Wooden	1.15
Stone	0.6
Iron	0.4
Diamond	0.3
Netherite	0.25
Golden	0.2

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Crafting Recipe
Mechanical Mixer	Cogwheel + Andesite Casing + Whisk

Usage

The Mechanical Mixer is powered by an internal cogwheel, and will behave as one to any adjacent components, relaying and reversing rotation sideways.

The Mixer requires a minimum rotational speed of 30 RPM from its power source to work. Mixers will process ingredients faster the more speed it is given.

To work, a Mixer must be placed directly above a Basin, with a 1 block gap. When a valid recipe is inserted by throwing the ingredients in the Mixer, the Mixer will automatically combine the ingredients.

Automating Shapeless Recipes

All shapeless crafting recipes can be made automatically using the Mechanical Mixer by inserting required items into the Basin under the mixer. An example of such recipe is:

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Automating Brewing

All Brewing recipes can be made automatically using the Mechanical Mixer by inserting the required items and fluids into the Basin under the mixer. Brewing recipes require heating with a blaze burner.

Mixing

The Mechanical Mixer may be used to perform mixing recipes, which are not possible to make anywhere else. Those recipes include:

Name	Ingredients	Mixing Recipes
Andesite Alloy	Andesite + Iron Nugget
Andesite Alloy	Andesite + Zinc Nugget
Brass Ingot	Copper Ingot + Zinc Ingot	2
Builder's Tea	Any Leaves + Water + Milk
Chocolate	Sugar + Cocoa Beans + Milk
Chocolate	Bar of Chocolate
Dough	Wheat Flour + 1000mB of Water
Honey	Honey Block
Lava	Any Cobblestone or Cobbled Deepslate
Mud	Any convertable-to-mud block + Water

Throughput (Speed)

The only variable that effect the processing speed of the Mechanical Crafter is RPM. To calculate the exact number of game ticks it take to process one recipe ($t_{recipe}$), use this formula, where k is the stack size of the item:

$$\begin{gathered} t_{recipe}=\lfloor \min (15*\max (\lfloor {\log }_2\left(\frac{512}{\left|k\right|}\right)\rfloor +1, \\ 1), \\ 512)\rfloor +1\text{ticks} \end{gathered}$$

To calculate the exact number of recipes per tick ($f_{recipe}$), take the inverse of $t_{recipe}$:

$$\begin{gathered} f_{recipe}=\frac{1}{\lfloor \min (15*\max (\lfloor {\log }_2\left(\frac{512}{\left|k\right|}\right)\rfloor +1, \\ 1), \\ 512)\rfloor +1}\frac{\text{recipe}}{\text{tick}} \end{gathered}$$

If recipes per second are desired instead, then simply multiply the value by 20:

$$\begin{gathered} f_{recipe}=\frac{20}{\lfloor \min (15*\max (\lfloor {\log }_2\left(\frac{512}{\left|k\right|}\right)\rfloor +1, \\ 1), \\ 512)\rfloor +1}\frac{\text{recipe}}{\text{second}} \end{gathered}$$

Here are some precomputed values for common speeds:

rpm	$t_{recipe}$	r/s	r/m	r/h
32	62	0.3225	19.35	1161
64	47	0.4255	25.53	1531
128	32	0.625	37.5	2250
256	17	1.176	70.58	4235

History

Version	Changes
0.2	Added the Mechanical Mixer.
0.2.1	Mixers no longer ignore items inserted during processing.
0.2.2	Fixed Mechanical Crafters and mixers not handling container items properly. Introduced a Brass Ingot mixing recipe. Gunpowder can now be multiplied in the mixer.
0.3	Basins can no longer be placed directly under a Mechanical Press or Mixer. The Mixer can now process vanilla Potion recipes.
0.3c	Fixed mixers mistakingly ignoring recipes with 4 or 9 equal ingredients. Mixers can no longer process single-item recipes.
0.3.2	Dough can now be created in the mixer without the need of Buckets. Fixed mixer retracting after every operation when auto-output is active. Added sounds for mixing noises.
0.5	Recipe changed.
0.5f	Added a mixing recipe for Mud.