The Meltery

The Meltery is a compact block that provides access to melting materials to obtain Tinker's Construct fluids. It's perfect for those who want to use Tinker's liquids without building a full-fledged Smeltery. This modification is ideal for progression in modpacks but does not allow ore doubling or alloy creation.

How It Works

Meltery stands out for its ease of use and lacks an interface—all interactions occur through direct player or world interaction.

The block features one item slot capable of holding up to 64 items and a tank that can store fluid equivalent to 10 ingots (1440 millibuckets).

Fuel: To operate, Meltery must be placed above a lava block—either source or flowing lava works. It will be passively used to heat the block.

Melting: After fueling and inserting a valid item, Meltery will light up and gradually heat up to the required recipe temperature. Once the temperature is reached, a sound will play indicating that fluid has been added to the tank, or a sizzling sound will indicate that the tank is full and the process is paused.

Inserting Items: To place an item into Meltery, simply right-click with the item in hand or use a transportation system like a hopper.

Extracting Items: Items can be removed by holding Shift and right-clicking with an empty hand (or with the same item being extracted).

Extracting Fluid: Fluid can be drawn from Meltery using any fluid pipe, including Tinker's Faucet, for further use.

Compatibility

Meltery defaults with support for the following mods:

• JEI — provides a recipe handler displaying all melting recipes
• Minetweaker — allows adding or removing melting recipes as follows:

To add:

meltery.Meltery.addMelting(ILiquidStack output, IIngredient input, int temp)

To remove:

meltery.Meltery.removeMelting(IItemStack input)

Author thanks Gil for the idea and texture creation.