Auto-Sifter

<p>Adds vanilla-balanced auto-sifters which run on mechanical power. One windmill will produce items slightly slower than a player panning themselves, however you'll also gain the same items had you panned them yourself, and you can feed more power to make it even faster.</p> <p>Recipe:<br />12 durability on a soldering iron and 12 solder (one for each plate)<br />2 plates of Brass as a rust-resistant trim and also internal workings<br />2 plates of Iron for each side provides a chassis for the machine<br />1 set of Bronze/Iron/Meteoric/Steel chain will allow the machine to work<br />and finally a toggle to provide precussive force that makes it all happen</p> <p>Feed the device mechanical power and place panning blocks above it and items will fall out the bottom. The faster the MP input is, the faster it will process. It uses the same calculation as the helvehammer, so be sure to give it lots of power to get the most out of it. The sifter will scan up the stack so you can place a line of pannable blocks into the sky and it will pan them from the top. The device will still consume MP even when no blocks are being processed, however it will be half as much as if it were. Attach it to a clutch to turn it off when you don't need it.</p> <p>The device will make three noises:<br />You'll hear a "thunk" every now and then. This is the sound of the toggle impacting the inside and producing vibration<br />After about 4 thunks, you'll then hear the glorious sound of sand sifting through the seive, potentially meaning sweet loot<br />If you got lucky to find a drop, you'll hear a final noise of the item dropping out the bottom onto the ground, ready to be picked up by either you or your hopper.</p> <p>The "speed" of the device is infinite. If you produce items faster than a tick can handle, it will just produce multiple items within that tick. I plugged it into my <a href="https://youtu.be/nPjsZH28yrM">giant wall of gears</a> and it cleared an entire stack of bony in one tick. Good luck getting that much power in the real game, though.</p> <p>The level of chain you use determines which auto-sifter you get. Higher tier auto-sifters can support more blocks on top of it before the chain will break. Bronze can only support one, Iron supports two, Meteoric can support four, and Steel can support eight. You won't lose any material if the chain breaks (it will drop metal bits when this happens) but you will need to smith the chain again. Obviously a machine without chain won't work at all. If you want to tweak the values or liked the old unlimited steel chain, you can adjust these values in the tieredautosifter JSON. You can also add your own tiered autosifter by adjusting the metal varient groups, setting its maxblocks attribute and providing the textures.</p> <p>No animations or particles yet since I couldn't get them to work, but the rest of the mod works perfectly fine.<br /><br />Attention modders: Want to dip your toes into the MP system? The decomp of this mod is a perfect place to get started.<br />Don't feel bad about copying most if not all of the code in here. It's all copied from the main game anyway.</p>