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Palimpsest

Erase Maps and Books for reuse by rubbing with Redstone Dust.
by Stormwind99
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Erase Maps and Books for reuse by rubbing with Redstone Dust.

Historically, a palimpsest is "a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off so that the page can be reused for another document" [Wikipedia].   Materials for writing were expensive to create, so were reused when possible.

This mod contains shapeless recipes that, when one of the following items is rubbed (aka crafted) with Redstone Dust, will produce a blank version of the item (consuming the Redstone Dust in the process):

  • Filled Map
  • Mega Map (1.14.4+)
  • Written Book
  • Writable Book
  • Enchanted Book

Example uses

  1. Collected some low power Enchanted Books you don't need?  Recycle them into Books to use for new enchantments.
  2. Accidentally create multiple Filled Maps of the same area?  Erase the the duplicate Filled Maps to use again.
  3. Use Bibliocraft's Atlas with Filled Maps but accidentally create a Filled Map of the wrong scale level?  Erase it!

Recipes

Filled Map

Recipe: Filled Map and Redstone Dust to Empty Map 

Writable Book

Recipe: Writable Book and Redstone Dust to Writable Book 

Written Book

Recipe: Written Book and Redstone Dust to Book 

Enchanted Book

Recipe: Enchanted Book and Redstone Dust to Book

My mods

  • Food Funk - What is that funky smell in my backpack? Food spoils over time unless preserved. Configure any item to rot, any container to preserve items.
  • Canny Composter - Compost more stuff! Turn excess organic material and rotted food into nutrients for plants.
  • Mega Map - Cartographers rejoice! Mega zoomed out maps - scales of 5 aka 1:32 and greater!
  • Web Slinger - Spiders shoot webbing at you - slinging webs from a distance, or when they hit you in melee!
  • Pantography - Copy Map item data to other Maps including different scale Maps.
  • Palimpsest - Erase Maps and Books for reuse by rubbing with Redstone Dust.
  • Flourishing Foliage - Can't keep a tree down! Tree leaves regrow outward after harvesting if enough tree trunk is left.
  • Saplings to Sticks - Strip saplings to get sticks. That's it - nothing more.
  • Daring Debug -  Do you DARE to see extra debug information?  Includes TileEntity and Tag information.
palimpsest-1.14.4-1.3.1.jar
MC 1.14.4, Forge
Release 2020-01-04 Get
palimpsest-1.12.2-1.2.3.jar
MC 1.12.2
Release 2018-08-07 Get

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