Kingdom of Science: Gold Amalgam Extraction

<p><strong>This mod requires <a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/chemistrylib">ChemistryLib</a> and <a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/lavoisier">Lavoisier</a>.</strong></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>If you find a bug, have a suggestion or want to talk, feel free to join my <a href="https://discord.gg/EPPj2AzqEm">Discord server</a>!</strong></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Go back to the time of the Gold Rush and amass riches using SCIENCE with the third installment of the Kingdom of Science series!</p> <p>The technique is inspired by the mercury amalgamation gold extraction process, which was used for artisanal and small-scale mining during the Gold Rush (and is still used today, often illegally, despite it being responsible for most of the world's mercury pollution)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>To extract gold with this mod:</p> <p>Put in a barrel 1x pannable block (gravel or sand, but not bony soil) and 0.1L of mercury to make mercury amalgam.</p> <p>Boil mercury amalgam in a boiling flask (with a setup containing: boiling flask -&gt; retort neck) to separate the sponge gold from the mercury (add a bowl to the retort neck to recover the mercury).</p> <p>You can then smelt sponge gold into gold ingots (100 for one ingot).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This method has a much better recovery rate than panning (1 ingot for 100 blocks instead of ~500) and is more convenient, but is more high-tech and doesn't produce anything else. I think that it's balanced since gold has pretty much zero use in survival (besides I guess repairing Forlorn Hope gear and selling it to traders?). Also, if you want to make it worse, you could edit the barrel recipe on the server-side mod and make it so you need 2 or more sand/gravel to make mercury amalgam.</p>