Ore Grinder

The Ore Grinder turns raw ores into dust and breaks finished ingots back down the material tree. Feed it fuel and an input and it spits out dusts, shards, or a lower-tier material. Many recipes yield more output than you put in, so the grinder doubles as a way to recycle valuable ingots into something more plentiful.

• Fuel: raw sulfur dust, coal, charcoal, or Meteorite Ingots; meteorite burns the longest and also doubles every output while it's the active fuel
• Glows while running, accepts hopper or Item Node input on the sides, and outputs to a hopper or Item Node directly below
• Raw ores into dust, with a bonus yield: Raw Iron into Raw Iron Dust, Raw Gold into Raw Gold Dust, Raw Copper into Raw Copper Dust, Raw Cobalt into Raw Cobalt Dust, Raw Dragonite into Raw Dragonite Dust, Meteorite Debris into Raw Meteorite Dust, Rose Quartz into Rose Quartz Dust
• High-yield raw conversions: Quartz and Raw Sulfur each grind into a generous pile of their dust
• Crystal breakdowns: Resonant Crystal Block into Resonant Crystal Shards, Resonant Crystal Shard into Raw Resonant Crystal Dust, Raw Crystalline into Raw Crystalline Shards
• Late-tier ingot chain (each step drops the material one rung down the tree, so this is how you go from a high-tier ingot to something lower): Dragonite Ingot into Cobalt Ingots, Cobalt Ingot into Netherite Ingots
• Netherite Ingot splits into Meteorite Ingot plus Diamonds, so grinding a finished Netherite Ingot gives you back a Meteorite Ingot and a couple of diamonds rather than anything netherite-tier
• Meteorite Ingot splits into Crystalline Ingots plus a Sulfur Ingot
• Crystalline Ingot into Diamond, Obsidian Ingot into Diamonds (large yield), Sulfur Ingot into Coal (very large yield)
• Mid-tier metal recycling: Steel Ingot splits into Iron Ingots plus Copper Ingots, Diamond into Steel Ingots, Gold Ingot into Iron Ingots, Iron Ingot into Copper Ingots, Copper Ingot into Stone