Advanced Industrial Workbench

alaindustrial:advanced_industrial_workbench

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Summary

The Advanced Industrial Workbench is the next tier of the Industrial Workbench. It does everything the first tier does: an ordinary 3×3 crafting grid, every recipe of the game and the mod, and a memory of the last craft with a ghost hint of the recipe. On top of that it adds what the first tier lacks:

• it keeps the grid — close the window and the items stay in their cells; break the block and they drop, like from a chest;
• the "Clear grid" button moves everything from the grid into your inventory in one click;
• shift-click on the result crafts again and again while the grid holds enough materials;
• one shared grid — two players can open the same workbench at once and see the same cells, like a chest;
• pipes and hoppers fill in the ingredients and take the finished result by themselves (see "Behavior");
• a comparator shows how full the grid is;
• items are visible on the top — small 3D items lie on the 3×3 grid, and the result floats above them.

It needs no energy and no redstone. It is not a villager job site: the Industrialist profession and the trades stay with the first tier only.

Block Properties

Interface

Right-click opens a window laid out like an ordinary workbench: the 3×3 grid, the result slot and the player inventory. Differences from the first tier:

• Items stay. Closing the window returns nothing to the player — everything lies in the block and waits. Items survive relogging and chunk reloads.
• "Clear grid". The button moves every item of the grid into the player's inventory. Whatever does not fit stays in the grid.
• Shift-click on the result crafts while the grid holds enough materials for the next craft; items are not duplicated, ingredients are consumed as in a normal craft.
• One workbench, one grid for everyone. If two players have the block open, both see and change the same cells, like a chest.
• Craft memory works as in the first tier: the recipe last crafted on this workbench appears as a faint ghost layout in the empty cells. Every workbench has its own memory.

Behavior

Pipes and hoppers on top and on the sides

An item that a pipe or hopper pushes in from the top or a side is accepted only into the cells where the remembered recipe expects exactly that item, and is spread evenly between such cells. Anything extra (into a cell the recipe does not expect it in, or beyond what is needed) is refused. While the workbench remembers no recipe it accepts nothing — craft the wanted item by hand once first.

A pipe or hopper below

From below a pipe or hopper takes the result, but only when a full recipe lies in the grid. The workbench crafts the item by itself and the ingredients are consumed as in a manual craft. This makes the workbench an automatic line: ingredients come in from the top and the sides, the finished item leaves from below. No energy and no redstone are needed.

Comparator

The comparator signal shows how full the grid is: the more cells are occupied, the stronger the signal.

Look

The grid items lie on the top as small 3D models and the result of the current layout floats above them. Data is sent to the client only when the grid changes.

Energy

It neither consumes nor produces energy. Automatic crafting runs without EU/FE and without redstone.

Recipes

Electronic Circuit -
Tempered Iron Industrial Workbench Tempered Iron
Tempered Iron Chest Tempered Iron

An electronic circuit in the top centre; in the middle row tempered iron, the Industrial Workbench, tempered iron; in the bottom row tempered iron, a chest, tempered iron. The corners of the top row are empty.

Progression

• Tier: the second of the Industrial Workbench line; no energy needed.
• Needs: the Industrial Workbench (centre of the recipe), an electronic circuit, a chest and four tempered iron.

Crafting

Shaped Crafting

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Advanced Industrial Workbench