Meltcaster

🔥Meltcaster🔥(Initial release)

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The Meltcaster is a smelter-style device used to recycle items like metal-scraps into metal bits and sometimes rare gears. It requires fuel (like charcoal) and input items (like scrap) to begin processing.

The default example recipe includes only the following input:

• metal-scraps

 

The recipes are fully configurable for both input and output, so feel free to make any recipe you like

To Do:

• <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Add folder parsing to separate recipes into individual json files in a custom folder</span> DONE!
• YAML recipe parsing (for better human readibility)

🧪 Recipe Basics

Each Meltcaster Recipe defines:

• Input Item: The item you smelt (e.g., metal-scraps)

• Meltcast Temperature: How hot the furnace needs to be to start processing

• Meltcast Time: How long it takes to complete smelting

• Outputs: What you get back, with chances per item

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The initial release of this mod has a single recipe defined as follows:

Input: Metal Scraps

Meltcast Temperature: 1200 C

Meltcast Time: 60s

Outputs:

• • Metal Bits - Group
    • Chance: 100%
    • Quantity: 1
    • Note: Bit type is weighted roll for all metal bits in the game
  • Rusty Gear
    • Chance: 5%
    • Quantity: 1
  • Temporal Gear
    • Chance: 1%
    • Quantity: 1

⚙️ Simple Outputs

Some recipes have simple outputs like:

• gear-rusty &ndash; 5% chance

• gear-temporal &ndash; 1% chance

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Each item has a chance defined:

• On simple outputs this is the chance for that item
• On group items this is the weighted chance for that item within it's group

🎲 Weighted Output Groups

Outputs can also be part of a group with weighted selection:

• When the first item of a stack is processed, a random bit from the group is selected based on its weight (rarer bits have lower chances).

• Each subsequent item will output the same selected bit until the number of items output exceeds the group roll interval defined in the recipe (16 by default).

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This prevents players from "cherry-picking" rare bits by inserting one item at a time.

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Weighted group rolls happen separately from non-group items, the chance defined on the group is the overall chance for entire group. Each item's chance is it's relative weight to other items within that group.

🌡️ Fuel &amp; Temperature

• The furnace must be ignited with fuel (like charcoal or coal).

• It heats up gradually; once hot enough, the item starts melting.