I’m not sure if anything like this is in Boundless, but what about a machine that can tear items apart back to their ingredients? That way if you make too much of something or can’t sell something you could at least get your ingredients back and sell them.
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Odeon
July 8, 2020, 5:48pm
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We do not have such a device yet …
Most likely not a complete list - but here’s a choice of suggestions like this in chronological order.
If we are still going to be able to loot anything in the future (assuming a player item bank goes into existence) it would be nice to be able to like melt down things to get core resources or break down machines for parts.
So a smelter or bench that can break apart items might be nice even if we just can use it on the things we have. Just something that can get me back down to some core resources even less than it cost to make it.
A salvager: it’s a machine of 4 blocks and its purpose is to break down machined or refined or compressed alloys and metals and possibly other crafted materials back into their raw ingredients. This would have the benefit of acting as an undo button or as a tool to break down components to retrieve specific materials, or perhaps later, otherwise unobtainable materials. There could possibly be a penalty of deconstruction such as you only get 50% return or a failure rate or something. Or even just…
I have an idea for a new type of machine I call the Deconstructor; it allows for the recycling of unwanted items to get back some of what they were crafted with, and can also break down natural blocks into special items. Below is a more detailed explanation on how it would work:
Deconstructing crafted items and blocks
All items and blocks that can be crafted can be put into the Deconstructor for a chance at getting back some of the items they were crafted with. Like with other crafting, one ca…
I know there have been various suggestions previously regarding a machine like this. However I do not think it as ever been answered (if it has sorry for the dup - please point to it if you can).
@james What I am suggesting is a machine that you can put any crafted material into (such as a brick, or compacted silt) and break it back down to the original components (stone, compact clay, mud and ash for brick or regular silt). Then if you wanted to take the compact clay back to regular clay jus…
You put stuff in and it dismantles it into base components (maybe not all recipes should be reversible)
It would give materials based on mass craft recipes so it wouldn’t be abusable.
Maybe not all recipes. But you should be able to turn a hammer into metal or a metal cube into metal bars for sure.
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Looks like we might need a little machine update with an item deconstructor and a mass transformer!
I’d be happy with that
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if they do implement a machine that gives ingredients back, they might want to have it not work on tools. this will prevent people from using a tool down to it’s lowest health and then getting the ingredients back.
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Or the tool has to be at %100 health
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Or the materials returned could be scaled down, like if dura is at 20%, then 20% of each material is returned, rounded down.
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