Glue

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Glue is used to repair clutter, so a player can collect a clutter item from ruins without risk of the item shattering.

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Obtaining

Required materials

• Make charcoal and grind at least 2 pieces in a quern.
• Collect at least 2 pieces of resin from leaking pine logs.
• Form at least 1 clay cooking pot and fire it in a pit kiln.

Warning:
Once used for glue, a pot can never again be used for food.

• Construct a firepit with 1 dry grass and 4 firewood pieces.
• Collect fuel, especially if the firewood used to make the firepit is already consumed.
• Craft a firestarter or torch to light a firepit.

Preparing glue

• Place a cooking pot on a firepit. In the pot's GUI, place resin in the first 2 slots and powdered charcoal in the last two slots. If the recipe is valid, the GUI should describe the expected output.
• Add fuel and ignite. When the temperature gets high enough, the arrow in the pot's GUI will start to fill with green. When the arrow is full, the pot will move from the left side to the right, and the player can move the glue-containing pot from the GUI to their inventory.
• 2 resin + 2 powdered charcoal yields 1 portion of pitch glue. A pot can hold at most 6 portions: 12 resin + 12 powdered charcoal, divided among the 4 GUI slots.

• Glue must be used within a few hours of making it. After 4 hours it hardens, becoming unusable unless reheated. To reheat glue, place the pot on a firepit, add fuel and ignite.
• Additional resin and charcoal cannot be added to a partially-full pot. Only when the pot is completely empty can you add more ingredients.

Usage

• With the glue-pot in the active hotbar slot, rightclick on a piece of clutter to apply 1 portion of glue at a time. If the glue is too cold, the chat overlay will display "This glue is hard and unusable. Heat the pot for a while to soften and refresh it."

Whether glue is useful for clutter can be adjusted in the Customization menu during world creation, or later via commands.
"Can the player obtain clutter blocks from ruins by breaking them?"

• /worldconfig clutterObtainable yes "Yes, simply by breaking them" - clutter never shatters even without glue
  
• /worldconfig clutterObtainable ifrepaired "Only if first repaired using glue"
  
• /worldconfig clutterObtainable no "No, they always shatter" - glue wouldn't help
  

An item of unrepairable clutter will be described in the block info overlay as "Will shatter if broken!"
An item of repairable clutter will be described in the block info overlay as "May shatter if broken. Can be repaired using glue."

After 1 application:

• the chat overlay will display "{0} repaired a little"
• the block info overlay for the clutter item will display "May shatter if broken. Can be repaired using glue. 33% repaired"

After 2 applications:

• the chat overlay will display "{0} repaired a little"
• the block info overlay will display "May shatter if broken. Can be repaired using glue. 66% repaired"

After 3 applications:

• the chat overlay will display "{0} repaired a little"
• the block info overlay will display "Repaired enough, can safely be collected (by breaking the block)"

The player can then use a bare hand to break the clutter item, which will now have a 100% chance of dropping itself.

History

• Glue was added in version 1.19.4-pre1. Prior to that, clutter in ruins had a flat 50% chance of shattering when the player tried to obtain it.

Notes

• It's unclear whether a clutter item repaired 33% is exactly twice as likely to break as a clutter item repaired 66% percent. Maybe there's no point in spending any glue if you don't have a full 3 portions for an item.
• 3 firewood pieces are enough to complete a full batch of 6 portions of glue in around 13 seconds.
• The temperature needed to begin cooking seems to be 100°C.
• A cooking pot used to prepare glue or other non-food recipes becomes caked in residue. A residue-covered cooking pot cannot be used for meal-making with food ingredients.
• Glue cannot be removed from the pot, whether hot or hardened, except via a bowl. Using an empty bowl on a pot of glue transfers 1 portion from the pot to the bowl. A bowlful of hot glue can be used to repair a clutter item. But hardened glue can probably not be returned from a bowl to a pot for reheating. And the ability to hold glue in a "Bowl with meal" will probably be removed in future.
• Tossing a pot containing glue into a water block causes the glue to disappear after a few seconds, leaving an empty dirtyclaypot. But the pot stays dirty and cannot ever be used for cooking food.
• A single portion of glue from the creative menu can be applied with a bare hand to a clutter item to repair 33.3%.

Gallery

teaser image from devlog for 1.19.4-rc.1

See also

• World configuration