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 make the extractor capable of doing this.
there have been discussions around repairing/deconstructing/recycling before - here’s a topic that got devs response of sort so probably the best to read out of several on the subject:
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go on the test world in the hive and you’ll see there is a auto cobble gem
Refined to regular gleam preez. Even lanterns