Machining Mill

Description

The machining mill is one of the first polycraft inventories that can be crafted after mining polycraft ores. The machining mill is used to create metal molds and metal dies that can be used in the injection molder and the extruder to manufacture new polycraft items. The machining mill requires a bucket of water for operation to keep the cutting surfaces cool, but the water is not used up. It is difficult to automate a machining mill at this point, because pipes, hoppers and tree taps extract the metal from the inventory. A future release will look to add a computer aided machining mill to be able to create molds in a more efficient way.

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Properties

Outputs	Components	Recipe	Icon	Release Version	ID
Machining Mill	Stone Slab (3) Metal Screw (3) Block of Redstone (1) Block of Nickel or other Hard Metal (2) Note: Hard metals include Nickel, Brass, Bronze, Iron or Tungsten			1.0.0	3i

Recipes

Note, metal molds and metal dies can be made from any number of metals ingots. Molds are used in the injection molder and dies are used in the extruder. Molds and dies take a certain amount of damage per use depending on the material used to make the mold. Different molds have different maximum damage values, and the default value is 8192. Thus a metal that is damaged 128 per use will last 64 uses.

Metal Ingot	Damage per use	Items per Mold
Magnesium	128	64
Titanium	8	1024
Manganese	128	64
Cobalt	128	64
Nickel	64	128
Antimony	64	128
Tungsten	32	256
Platinum	4	2048
Bismuth	16	512
Aluminum	64	128
Steel	8	1024
Stainless Steel	4	2048
Brass	16	512
Bronze	128	64
Tungsten Carbide	2	4096
Nichrome	16	512
Antimony-Lead	32	256

Not useful ingots for molds and dies

Metal Ingots that cannot be used to make molds include Copper, Zinc, Palladium, Silver, Plumbum (Lead), Tin, and Chromite. Examples of molds that can be made are shown below.

History

The machining mill was one of the first Polycraft inventories to make it into the game. It is essential to be able to build molds for the injection molder and the extruder to better refine and process materials.

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