Quartz Grind Stone

The Quartz Grind Stone provides a low tech solution for getting more out of your mining trips. It is much cheaper than its more high-tech counter parts that other mods provide, but it is slow and a considerable time sink, but what else do you have to do while smelting those ores? Why not grind up some other ores into dusts?

Dusts

Applied Energistics adds Iron Dust and Gold Dust, Nether Quartz Dust and Flour in additional to Certus Quartz Dust for its own world gen. By smelting dusts instead of raw resources you can get twice as much output for your ores. and reduce the amount of Wheat to make bread.

 

Setting up the Quartz Grind Stone

Its pretty easy to get started, first craft your self 1 of each of the Quartz Grind Stone and the Wooden Crank

 

Once you have that set the Grinder Block on the ground. Then put the Wooden Crank in your hand like you would a pick-axe, the right click on the grinder, to install the crank, make sure you have an empty block above the grinder or it won't fit. Once installed it goes from looking like the above right image, to the one on the right.

Using the Grind Stone

Add ores / crystals into the bottom block's top left slotsto be grinded, and right clicking on the crank to grind the ores. if there are no more items left to grind the crank will stop turning, if you try to use the crank to many times when its empty the crank will snap, and drop a few sticks.

Ore Dictionary and Other Mod Support

You can configure which ores can be processed in the quartz grindstone via the config by specifiying their ore dictionary name, AE will always use the default 1 ore -> 2 dust ration for this however, its up to you to ensure that this is blanced. By default it includes the basic setup.

 

Recipe

Without Buildcraft:

With Buildcraft:

Page last modified on 07/16/2013 03:49 PM CDT
By AlgorithmX2
Certus Quartz Ore
Unmined certus quartz
Certus Quartz Crystal
Quartz crystal with qualtiies that allow it to store energy.
Certus Quartz Dust
Ground Certus Quartz Crystal
Quartz Grind Stone
Block which when used with a crank, can grind many ores and crystals into dusts.
ME Basic Processor
Crafting ingredient for a large amount of ME Technology.
ME Advanced Processor
Crafting ingredient for a some ME Technology.
Vibration Catalyst
Vibrates the molecules in the targeted block causing it to go though a process similar to smelting.
Entropy Accelerator
Accelerates the ageing and cools of a single block in the world.
ME Wireless Access Terminal
Wireless access terminal for use with wireless access points.
Matter Cannon
A small hand held device which is capable of shooting small nuggets of matter
Quantum Field Ring
Outer blocks of a quantum network bridge, take power and propagate network signal to and from the bridge
Quantum Entangled Singularity
A pair of items which are used to establish a connection between network bridges.
ME Pattern Provider
A part of the MAC multi-block that stored encoded patterns.
ME Crafting CPU
Crafting CPU for use in the MAC Multiblock
ME Heat Vent
Forms the outside walls of the MAC Multiblock
ME Assembler Containment Wall
Containment wall which forms the outside frame of the MAC Multiblock
ME Controller
The controller is the heart of any ME Network, it also accepts power for the network.
ME Drive
Drive which can store up to 10 Storage Cells, and provides their inventory to the network
ME Chest
A simple single storage cell machine which gives direct access to the contents of a single cell, and provides the cells inventory to the network.
ME Access Terminal
Gives full access to the entire content of an ME Network
ME Crafting Terminal
Terminal which also functions as a Crafting table.
ME Crafting Monitor
Displays information about active crafting jobs, and lets you cancel jobs.
ME Cable
Uncolored cable that can connect ME Devices.
ME Import Bus
Imports items into the network, by removing them from the connected inventories
ME Export Bus
Exprots items out of the network, by placing them into connected inventories
ME Level Emitter
Outputs redstone signals depending on the number of a configured item in the network.
ME Storage Bus
Includes an external inventory such as a chest, into the networks storage.
ME Interface
Acts like a small inventory that can import and export to the network, also used in the crafting process.
ME IO Port
Can load and unload storage cells into and out of the network connected.
ME Wireless Access Point
Provides a range of wireless access at the point where the item is placed.
ME Dark Cable
Toggleable cable which can be used to segment your network into diffrent segments to alter functionality or reduce power drain.
ME Storage Monitor
Can be configured to display the number of a specific item that are stored in the network; can also be upgraded to insert / remove that item.
ME Power Relay
Block which accepts power and relays it to attached networks
ME Transition Plane
Surface which converts anything that touches it into energy form
P2P Tunnel
Point 2 Point Tunnel which can be configured to route items/power/liquids from one point to another in a network.
Spatial Pylon
A Marker used to mark a region of space for capture or deploy ment
ME Spatial IO Port
An IO Port used to capture / deploy regions of space defined by pylons.
ME Pattern Encoder
Used to convert blank patterns, into encoded patterns.
ME Partition Editor
Configure Storage cells to hold diffrent types of items and change how your system stores items.
ME Condenser
Condenses items and blocks into raw energy which can be dispersed or converted into a few select items
ME Bus Memory Card
Memory card that can be used to store, and transfer settings
Iron Dust
Ground up iron
Gold Dust
Ground up gold
Nether Quartz Dust
Ground nether quartz
Flour
A smeltable item which produces bread
Wheat
A crop grown from seeds - Vanilla Minecraft
Wooden Crank
a simple wooden crank which is installed onto a grindstone