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Recycling table | Uncrafting

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I do hate wasting items. I think we should have an option to recycle some items, like some crafted blocks, items with durability, and a few others found round the world (horse armor, saddle). So I propose a recycling table that would allow players to recover some of the items used to craft the recyclable item. This would be based on a base percentage, say 70%, and the durability of the item. Few examples below:

  • A Dropper costs 7 cobblestone and 1 redstone. It has no durability. Recycling it would return floor(7 *0.7) = 4 cobblestone and floor(1 * 0.7) = 0 redstone.
  • A Diamond Pickaxe costs 3 diamonds and 2 sticks. It has durability. Recycling one with 60% durability left would return floor(3 * 0.7 * 0.6) = 1 diamond and floor(2 * 0.7 * 0.6) = 0 sticks.
  • A saddle cannot be crafted. Recycling it would return a predetermined amount of leather.
  • Items and blocks like Cake would be flagged as "not recyclable" so it cannot be recycled.

If this seems unbalanced, recycling may have some cost associated with it, potentially requiring the table to be powered by some item or experience levels that lasts some amount of recycling operations.

Furnace smelting option for iron and gold would stay as is.

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    So, would it be like, an UNcrafting table?

  • 30
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    Okay, but seriously I love this idea!

  • 41
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    I hate burning items, this would be amazing.

     

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    I love this idea; other games have adopted crafting functions, but have an option to “break down” or unmake items into base items. An Uncrafting Table would be a great addition.

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    This would also be useful because it helps players gain resources more easily, which is something I personally struggle with. For example, when I find a mineshaft, I grab every fence-post and piece of wood I can. It would awesome to recycle all those fence-posts into more wood instead of trying to find a way to incorporate them into my build. It also makes sense because if someone actually needed a resource and they found something made of it, they would actually be able to pull it apart and take what they need.

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    We can melt gold and iron items to obtain iron or gold nuggets, which can be used to create iron and gold ingots. Although it takes A LOT of nuggets to actually create something, we can already recycle in some sort of way! 

    But extanding this idea to more items would be amazing!!

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    i dont know, that would be too op.

  • 6
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    I'm down.

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    I've seen mods that let you uncraft for xp, if balancing is a concern.

    I would also like to see a block that lets you melt down things like armor back into ingots, just at the cost of whatever you use to power it.

    Also, if a function of this uncrafting table was to remove enchantments and put them onto books at the cost of lapis and or xp, I think that would be great too. Sometimes I find great enchantments on leather armor, and it winds up being worthless to me. Maybe cursed items have a higher cost of removal, or can't be removed at all

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    Great idea! Only thing is it has to be expensive to create.

  • 2
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    Can't you just make a giant trash can or a duplicator.

    But still, I've really wanted to see something like this.

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    how about you just put in the items and the stuff you need to make it comes out? this would be fairer if you accidentally crafted, say, a diamond hoe with those diamonds you were planning to make a sword with. 

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    this would be a great addition to the game! it would help alot of people but people could abuse it by taking ur things and recyling them.i.e griefers table 

    and not be be unfair the name is a bit wonky how about recycling bin or recycling box? 

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    maybe an enchanted item will have a percentage of giving you the enchanted book back?!?

  • 9
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    Maybe add this functionality to the Grinder?

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    Yes this is good! So I can make my old wooden stuff to good use! It’s also good for mob loots or dungeons because I will get gold sword or something, but I already have diamond.

     

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    Yea, and it might promote people to recycle ♻️ more often Irl

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    Maybe some of the new workstations could do this.
    -Fletchers table for breaking down bows, arrows, crossbows and poisoned arrows.
    -stone cutter for breaking quartz blocks into quartz, smooth stone into cobble etc.
    -toolmiths table for axes, shovels, fishing rods, swords, shears etcetc

    I'd mostly like to see leather armour and saddles be broken down. My fishing turns up so many of each that I have no use for.
    It'd be nice to be able to smelt metal items like trapdoors and doors back into nuggets or Ingots too.

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    i love this idea so much!!

     

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    What if it gave some some xp?

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    I've wanted to see the smithing table do something like this, in addition to making tools, weapons, armor, etc.

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    This would be great! I do my best to repair all the items I randomly acquire, use up the stone tools villagers give me and reuse any dirt I dig up, but I still end up with chests full of items no one on the realm uses. I'm not going to tame 37 horses, am I? I'm never going to need those 18 diamond hoes. Yet, there is no way to reuse them, aside from just throwing them into the incinerator.

     

    Yes, this would require some reconsideration for pricing in the villages, where you can sometimes buy the diamond tools for one or two emeralds a pop. Perhaps that's a good thing though, if you can sell a diamond for an emerald and buy a hoe on sale for the same money.

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    like an uncrafting table ?

  • 3
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    I think that for example redstone and diamond have greater chance to be uncrafted

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    Leather armor needs a use, please!!!

     

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    Multiple recipes produce more than one item, such as the stair recipe; 4 stairs for 6 planks. Recipes like this may complicate use of this table. As well as this, how could a table like this realistically work? There is no one process that can "uncraft" any variety of item; the process used to uncraft a hopper into ingots would involve high temperatures, while the same process would burn a wooden item leaving no material except possibly charcoal, for example.

    Rather than a single table uncrafting everything, excess materials could be converted to more useful materials by unique means, as already exists for iron and golden tools/armor (smelting into nuggets) as well as excess seeds ("fertilizing" into bonemeal). An example from this idea's comments is the recycling of fences; could they be converted to sticks by a woodchipper object?

    This is not an attack at all on the idea put forward here, rather I'm pointing out the problem this idea was put forward to solve has more than one solution. More ideas relating to reusing excess items will be cool to see :).

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    Maybe it should cost experience and give you back all of the items required to make it

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    I feel like a balanced crafting recipe would be 6 iron blocks/ingots lining the sides, three on the left and three on the right. then going down a hopper, shears, and last a chest. I also feel like the UI should have 5 slots at the bottom for the items to recycle into so they do not fall right to the floor.  

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    I feel like it would be a bit overpowered.... However, there should be a function to get some of the resources back instead of straight up destroying the material. like a destroying a pickaxe and having a chance of getting a stick or a cobblestone back

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    I think due to being able to buy diamond items from villagers for a very cheap price, especially from cured zombie villagers. This would make diamonds possible to farm since emeralds are possible to farm