Recycling!

[Ja99edMan 0]

I was reading Omnirach's thread about melting anvils to get some metal back and it made me think. We should be able to recycle things we don't use for materials that we may need. Maybe we should be able to make a recycling table that is powered by coal. You put in the imput slot lets say..... a plank of some sort and let the machine do its thing and out comes 3 sticks! Put a ingot x2 in and get 1-2 ingots back! Or maybe you want to recycle a tool. In this case you have to detach the head of the tool from the shaft. Put the head in the input slot and there will be tool slots to put ceramic molds in to catch the liquidfied head of the tool into an unshaped metal (may not be the whole metal do to loss durability of the head). This is just a thought I had. Feel free to use my idea in anyway you like, or not use my idea at all .

I imagine the GUI like this...

[1]

[2]-------[5]----[6][7] {Temp. Gauge)

[3]----[10][11]---[8][9]

[4]

1-4 is the tool slots

5 is the input slot

6-9 is the coal/charcoal slots (9 used up first, then 8, then 7, last 6)

10&11 is the output slots

Feel free to comment!

[blarging2000s 0]

With how dynamic the molds are it would be simple to just have you get a percent of what it took to make the tool divided by how much durability is left.

Say you have a pick that is half broken and you toss it in the bloomery and get 40% of a mold full.

..... I was going to say something more but then I though it would be very bad if he actually implimented it so I am not going to say to reduce the chance of it happening.

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

I'm pretty sure either/both Dunk or/and Bioxx said no to recycling a long while ago... So yeah ._.

[Pyro93735 3]

I'm pretty sure either/both Dunk or/and Bioxx said no to recycling a long while ago... So yeah ._.

Seems odd for a mod pushing realism over Minecraft's vanilla experience to randomly decide against it. What benefit does it bring to not be able to recover ingots? I understand the desire for realism as well as difficulty, so make it a poor retrieval rate, but why none at all?

[killster550 401]

DERP ALERT, DERP ALERT.

basically summarized pyro, it is not about realism, its about believability, mentioning the R word will garner some dislike out here, instead of thinking: how can it be like IRL, make it: how can it seem possible within a fantasy world, without becoming abstract (like in vanilla minecraft, where you could finish the game within an hour or 2, at lowest getting diamond near instant.

[Pyro93735 3]

DERP ALERT, DERP ALERT.

basically summarized pyro, it is not about realism, its about believability, mentioning the R word will garner some dislike out here, instead of thinking: how can it be like IRL, make it: how can it seem possible within a fantasy world, without becoming abstract (like in vanilla minecraft, where you could finish the game within an hour or 2, at lowest getting diamond near instant.

Alright, but you didn't address any of the core issues at hand in this thread, you just came here to call me a moron. Even if we're talking about believability, why would it make sense that you can't smelt the head of a tool down to an ingot? I'd find the concept to be very believable and in line with Terrafirmacraft's overall feel - as far as believability goes, I can't believe it's impossible to smelt a metal tool back down to metal.

[killster550 401]

i didnt come here to call you a moron, i came here to call you on your usage of the word Realism sorry of anything made you feel bad or trolled

as for the threads topic: i do think its perfectly normal to be able to resmelt metal, but it should be in a quite low quantity: if you smelt something, you're gonna have impurities in the ore and it will be bad, hence why we cant reuse everything infinitely, eventually the material itself will just die out.

to simulate this in TFC, one could get a maximum of 10% useable ore from a perfect pickaxe back, or even less (no less than 5% IMO)

[halfmaster1 77]

What happens when you melt an anvil in a bloomery, anyways? How many moods does it fill up?

I disagree with the pick smelting thing, what about the handle? And why would you want to melt your pickaxe anyways?

[Biodigious 211]

what about the handle?

And what would you like to know about the wooden object that was just placed in that high temp. fire?

[halfmaster1 77]

Where did its ashes go?

[Srgnoodles 1,030]

Where did its ashes go?

same place the ashes of logs go when you use them in a firepit, they poof into nonexistance

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

What happens when you melt an anvil in a bloomery, anyways? How many moods does it fill up?

I disagree with the pick smelting thing, what about the handle? And why would you want to melt your pickaxe anyways?

Right now the bloomery won't accept anvils. It just won't even try to melt 'em, so they don't fill any mold :

And you would want to melt a low durability pick to get the metal from it and use it for making a brand new pick, so they get more ues for smaller amounts of metal. That's what people mean in this forum when they say "reclycling", generally.