That one huge modded dungeon left you with a ton of random gear? Not an issue! Grab your trusty salvaging hammer and crack all of that armor into tiny pieces!
One item, the Salvaging Hammer.
It allows you to recycle items made of materials like iron, gold and diamond (configurable) back into those same materials.
To use the hammer, simply hold the item you want to salvage in your off-hand and right click with the hammer in your main hand. Tadaah! You just turned that useless golden chestplate with unbreaking I and curse of binding into gold ingots!
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The current way of recycling items in Minecraft invloves using a furnace to smelt iron and gold gear down into nuggets. It is a niche mechanic and not worth it most of the time. With my mod this problem is solved.
The right clicking salvage method added by the mod is hard to automate because it requires manual player action. Whereas furnace recipes are useful since they can be used in fully automatic farms that do not require such player action.
The mod is primarily aimed at heavily modded playthroughs, but use it however you like!
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The mod is highly configurable, with config options for :
Cosmetic changes - The salvaging hammer will be changed into an item called the salvaging toolbox. Mechanically it will be the same. The only change is that reacts to what you have in your off hand, e.g if you have a chestplate it shows a hammer, if you have a compass it shows a screwdriver etc.
