Shredder
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The shredder is a machine used to shred (or pulverize) materials. Can shred 9 items simultaneously.
It requires 2 shredder blades and power in order to operate. Consumes 300HE and one blade durability per cycle.
It can be assembled with the following recipe:
| Steel | 200 |
| Titanium | 350 |
| Advanced Alloy | 700 |
| Desh | Unbreakable |
Usage
Once 2 blades and items to shred are inserted, the shredder will begin operation.
It will shred one item from each of the slots if possible. It is recommended to spread input items across all input slots as it decreases blade and power consumption per item shredded.
Shredding ores yields 2 powder, which can be smelted into 2 ingots. Though overall inferior to the centrifuge and crucible because it consumes blades and doesn't produce a byproduct, it is good for early-game for more efficient ore processing using a furnace.
Trivia
- If a non-metal is shredded (e.g. diamond, emerald), it cannot be smelted back into normal form. Instead one should use a press, an ore acidizer or a tier 3+ anvil to do that.
- If an item without a powder form or otherwise designated output, it will turn into scrap. So use NEI to check the recipes before sticking random items inside.
- Scrap can be used as furnace fuel for 4 operations or turned into blocks (4) for 20 operations. Useful for ridding yourself of useless or dangerous items.
- If scrap is re-shredded, it will turn to dust, which can also be used as furnace fuel (2) or turned into scrap blocks (9 instead of 4). Doing this is pointless as dust is inferior to normal scrap and just wastes blade durability and power.
- Dust can also be made by shredding a powder that does not have a designated output.
- Scrap can be used as furnace fuel for 4 operations or turned into blocks (4) for 20 operations. Useful for ridding yourself of useless or dangerous items.
- There used to be a curious yet exploitable bug/error where if one shredded a Fluxed Electrum ingot from Thermal Expansion: Redstone Arsenal, it would've yielded 2 dust instead of 1. These 2 dust could've been put back into an Induction Smelter (also from TE) and made into 2 ingots, allowing for the process to be repeated.
- This has since been fixed.