Alembic

This information only applies to version Pre-Alpha 0.0.3

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An Alembic is a device that processes raw materials. It can be mined with a pickaxe.

 

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Crafting Recipe

Name Ingredients Recipe Alembic

• 2 x Glass Bottle
• 4 x Stick

 

Properties

The Alembic will require a number of items to distillate Mercury. It now has the following properties:

A water level higher than 1

Water bucket adds 8 water levels Water bottle or any potion will add 4 water levels At least 1 Cinnabar Dust present in the Alembic

Alembic can hold a maximum of 64 cinnabar Requires the user to hold a Glass bottle to obtain the Mercury Bottle Will constantly produce more mercury if there is water and cinnabar present in the Alembic and if the chunk containing the Alembic is loaded Will display smoke particles and use a different texture when distilling

Uses

Processing materials

• Converting Cinnabar Dust to Mercury Bottles

Usage

Obtaining Mercury Bottles

Obtaining MercuryInput BottlesItems

To obtain one mercury bottle, the user will need to following:

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Usage in GUI

Once the Alembic

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After bottlea short period of time, the following behaviour would occur:

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Fuel is burned Cinnabar Dust is used Mercury Tank is filled. A brewing sound will continue to distill mercury until either water or cinnabar runs out.play

Collecting Mercury from Mercury Tank

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The glass bottle will usebe used up the Glass Bottle and place a Mercury BottleBottles will be dispensed in the player'sbottom inventory.right hand slot.

Retrieving unused Cinnabar Dust/Stored Mercury Bottles 

The player can retrieve any unused Cinnabar Dust by sneaking and right clicking on the Alembic with an empty hand The player can also retrieve unused Cinnabar Dust by breaking the Alembic with a pickaxe. This will drop the remaining cinnabar along with any ready made mercury bottles. 

Notes

• The block has a known bug where reloadingBreaking the chunk containing the AlembicBlock will causeallow the blockit to losedrop its data.inventory Thisitems

isThe beingdistilllation workedprocess oncannot be automated with Hopper sytems Figure 1 - The default "Off" state of the 1.14.4 Alembic model. This will show if the Alembic does not contain enough materials to distillate. Figure 2 - The "On" state of the 1.14.4 Alembic model. This state will display if the Alemic is currently in the process of distilling mercury.