Straining Mesh

The Straining Mesh is a placeable item crafted from String and Sticks, adding renewability to certain river, ocean or lava based materials such as Clay, Gold Nuggets and possibly Ancient Debris.

When placed in water or lava, the Straining Mesh will begin sifting indicated by a different texture.

Straining Meshes will generate loot from biome-specific loot pools every 45~ seconds when placed in river water, ocean water or Nether lava. They can have a maximum of 3 loot items inside one mesh. Items collected by a Straining Mesh can be extracted using Hoppers.

Straining Meshes can be filtered to ignore collecting certain items. This is done by interacting with the item to be ignored and placing it in the Straining Mesh. This can only be done for one item per Straining Mesh.

These would be an easy early game way, albeit slow, to gain essential resources, and can easily be turned into farms. Note: Straining Meshes will only generate loot from naturally generated water.