Pulverizer
Pulverizers are a type of mechanism in Vintage Story. It is used to crush ores and minerals that are too hard to be powdered in a quern.
Protip:
As with querns and other automated machines, its output may despawn if the player is too far away from the pulverizer as it works if it is not deposited in a container. |
Creation
Pulverizers are made out of a pulverizer frame, a pulverizer toggle, and two capped pounders.
Pulverizer frames hold the entire mechanism together. It is a two-block high structure. The pulverizer toggle must be placed within a pulverizer frame. Two pounders must then be attached to the frame, and capped.
Pounder caps
Pounders must be capped with a metal cap. These can be smithed out of any bronze, iron, meteoric iron or steel. Both caps must be placed at the same time, and require a stack of 2 to place. Therefore, both pulverizer caps must always be made out of the same material. The tier of the metal used for the cap will determine what materials the pulverizer can process.
Usage
Pulverizers are used to crush quartz, bauxite, olivine or ilmenite for use in refractory bricks, or for crushing cinnabar or lapis lazuli to make dyes.
Pulverizers must be powered via a windmill or similar mechanism in order to function, and cannot be manually operated.
Automated operation
- Power input: Connect a powered axle to the bottom left or right of the frame, where the pulverizer toggle is. They cannot be powered from the top or bottom.
- Input: Pulverizers take input from the bottom back of the frame. By using an elbow chute and a hopper, players can automate input and also insert stacks of items for processing. Pulverizers can also be manually loaded by selecting the item to be pulverized in the hotbar and right-clicking the pulverizer frame. Pulverizers can process two items at a time.
- Output: Items are outputted from the front bottom block of the frame, and can be collected by placing a hopper one block in front of and below the front of the frame.
