Kerf Mill

Power use

20 FE/t per lane

Buffer

20,000 FE

Lanes

One, more with Manifolds

Upgrades

Kits, modules

ID

enthalpy:kerf_mill

What it does#

The Kerf Mill saws wood. A log goes in; planks and Sawdust come out. It gets more planks from a log than the crafting grid does, and the sawdust is a bonus that burns as fuel.

A worked example: one Oak Log becomes six Oak Planks and some sawdust, against four planks from the crafting grid.

Building it#

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Using it#

Put logs in the input slot. Planks collect in the output slot and sawdust in the byproduct slot. The example shows a Kerf Mill with a Manifold fitted, so it saws three stacks at once.

Kerf Mill60 FE/tRunning

FE

20

20

19

24

18

11

Inventory

TierBaseSpeed100%Energy/op100%Buffer20k

Auto-inputAuto-outputBalance lanesSoundsRedstone

Always

Low

High

• Any log into 6 planks and sawdust
• Works with modded wood automatically
• Sawdust burns as fuel

Side ConfigULRDBInputOutputBothNone123456789

1. 1
   The machine's buffer of FE.
2. 2
   Running while any lane is sawing. Idle with nothing to saw or no room for the result; Disabled when redstone has switched it off.
3. 3
   The power the machine is drawing right now, across every lane that is working.
4. 4
   The input slot of the first lane. It takes logs, wood blocks and the other things the mill has a recipe for.
5. 5
   The planks output of the first lane. Each lane has its own.
6. 6
   The sawdust slot, shared by every lane.
7. 7
   The progress arrow of a lane. It fills from the bottom.
8. 8
   With two or more lanes open, Balance lanes spreads the input stacks evenly across them.
9. 9
   Which faces take items and which give them out. Click a face to change it; right-click to go back.

Every log works#

You do not need a recipe for each kind of wood. When the game loads, Enthalpy looks at every item tagged as a log and finds the planks its crafting recipe makes. The mill then saws that log into one and a half times as many planks, plus one sawdust. Modded wood joins in on its own, as long as it has a log-to-planks recipe. Logs, stripped logs and the all-bark wood blocks are all covered. Here is one of them:

2,000 FE

6#

The sawdust always drops from a log; you do not need to count on a chance.

Other recipes#

A few things besides logs have their own recipes:

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2,000 FE

3#50%

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1,000 FE

3#25%

Automation#

Out of the box every face takes items and gives items:

Every face Input & Output (takes items and gives items). Auto-input off, Auto-output off.

Feed logs in by hopper or pipe and pull planks and sawdust from any face. Turn on Auto-input or Auto-output to work with neighbouring chests. Side configuration explains faces, modes and redstone control for every machine.

Upgrades#

A tier kit makes the machine faster, enlarges its buffer and opens module slots. Power use below is per lane while it works.

Tier	Kit	Power use	Buffer	Module slots
Base	None	20 FE/t	20,000 FE	0
Tempered	Tempered Upgrade Kit	40 FE/t	40,000 FE	2
Fortified	Fortified Upgrade Kit	60 FE/t	80,000 FE	4
Luminous	Luminous Upgrade Kit	80 FE/t	160,000 FE	6
Harmonic	Harmonic Upgrade Kit	120 FE/t	320,000 FE	8

• Celerity Module · up to 8
• Economizer Module · up to 8
• Manifold Module · up to 2

Three modules matter to a processing machine:

• Celerity speeds the work up by 50% each, but every operation costs 50% more energy.
• Economizer divides the energy each operation costs and grows the buffer by the same factor, one step per module of 50%. It does not change the speed.
• Manifold opens two more lanes each, so the machine works on several items at once. Every extra lane draws its own power.

Four Celerity modules give 3× the speed, at 3× the energy per operation, so the machine draws 9× the power while it works. Four Economizers cut each operation to 33% of its energy at the same speed. With the defaults, equal numbers of Celerity and Economizer modules cancel on cost: you get the speed and pay the original energy per operation.

Good to know#

• Its running sound is a low hum. Turn it off with Sounds on the Configuration tab.
• A full sawdust slot stops every lane, even though the sawdust is a bonus. Burn it, or pipe it away.
• The mill works from the crafting recipes at load, so a datapack that changes a log's planks changes what the mill gives.

Related#

• Caloric Engine: burn the sawdust
• Automation
• Upgrades and modules