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Threshing Grain

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For me, it never made much sense to cut my wheat with a knife to get grain and straw separated. IRL, there is a process called threshing for it.

 

Simple description of this process is to get a freshly cut bundle of crop, put it on the floor or any hard surface and beat the shit out of it until all the grain fells off. Normally, you would like to put something like burlap cloth under the bundle to ease the collection of grain.

 

My vision of how it can be implemented in terrafirmacraft is as follows:

1) Get a piece of burlap cloth

2) Put it on some hard surface, in a way scraping hides works. Maybe, only stone should be allowed to be used as the surface, maybe wood is enough.

3) Put a stack of grain crop on it

4) Right click it repeatedly with a tool

5) I am not sure what would be the easiest way to make this contraption output results - should it be GUI where the grain and straw is accumulated? Or maybe little pieces of grain and straw pop off as items at each hit?

 

Tool in question can be as simple as a stick, also it's not too convenient (and in TFC they don't have durability). Normally, a wooden flail is used for that, which is basically two sticks roped together. Person is holding one stick, second stick hits the bundle. See: https://historyonthefox.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/threshing-with-flail-ancient-cropped.jpg?w=506

 

It may be used as a higher-yielding alternative for existing method of cutting it with a knife.

 

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Ya, the knife for grain thing always felt a bit perfunctory.   Considering grain = bread, it might do something to address the imbalance between salad (specifically bowls) vs sandwiches.  Especially if burlap is required, as jute can be very hit or miss, and takes a long time to cultivate.

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