Super Paste Grinder
I may not be all that great at aesthetics, but it doesn’t take an architect to figure out that construction paste is kind of a big deal. That’s why I bring you this mod: a faster "Super Paste Grinder"! How fast, you ask? Pretty much as fast as you can feed it, as it takes 100 items at a time to make 100 paste at a time in 0 CraftTime, making it over 100 times as fast as the vanilla grinder! Furthermore, this mod also adds an Organic Paste Grinder to make paste with liquified resin, ruined organic parts, and spoiled organic remains!
Features:
Research! The Super Paste Grinder can be researched by feeding 10 construction paste to the lab after researching the "Aesthetics" project. The Organic Paste Grinder project, for which you will need 10 refined liquid resin, becomes available after researching the Super Paste Grinder AND the "Resin Handling" project.
Optional ingredients! In a similar manner to the vanilla Organic Reassembler, you can use any combination of blocks/items in either of these machines. Examples: the Super Paste Grinder can take 100 RoughHewnRock, 99 Wooden Planks and 1 Rock, 50 Cold and 50 Toxic stone, it doesn’t matter, as long as it adds up to 100. And yes: unlike the vanilla grinder, my version can also take wooden planks. Because why not? 😀
Renewable paste! Resin is a truly 100% renewable resource, as you can use the liquified resin items to feed a hive. If you hadn’t thought of this before, you’re welcome. 😛
Notes:
Yeah, the Super Paste Grinder costs 1600 construction paste. THIS IS BALANCED: it does the work of 100 vanilla grinders, so it costs 100 times as much. To be fair, once you get one, you can make more really fast, so it really isn’t THAT bad. Especially when you consider that I could’ve made it cost 1600 organic detritus… 😉
The Organic Paste Grinder costs 1 Super Paste Grinder and 10 refined liquid resin. This is also balanced, as you will need a resin setup to make proper use of it anyway. Yes, it can use ruined/spoiled organic parts, but this was mostly an afterthought for garbage disposal, similar to how the Super Paste Grinder can use wooden planks.
I would have allowed the Super Paste Grinder to use 20 tree trunks directly (5 planks per trunk so same cost), but unfortunately the Generic Auto Crafter code does not support the use of different numbers of optional ingredients. If you try to do this, it will instead use the lowest number for *any* of the options available. This is the same reason why the Organic Paste Grinder cannot take refined liquid resin. Sorry! Bug the developers. 😉
License:
This mod is the original work and property of yours truly, Agent Minty. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE!
That said, feel free to look at the files and use them as a guide for your own mods, as this is in fact exactly what I did with other mods.
Credits:
Again, this is my own original work, but I did receive a great deal of inspiration and help from others as follows:
DjArcas and all main game devs: awesome game, great that you actually interact with us, keep up the amazing work!
Buggi: mods, original inspiration for the mod itself, and help figuring out how to create and upload my own mods
Mad Vandal: mods, more inspiration, especially that to include a research project in the mod, plus general help
all mod authors and the community in general, particularly those on the Discord: you are all awesome and the game would not be what it is without you (except all you dumb trolls out there ofc 😉 [you know who you are])
Thank you again, all of you! Stay awesome!
