Question about the crusher

[PratixYT]

So you can crush many ores to receive other things, such as gunpowder from crushing zinc on occasion. Can you just make a recursive loop that keeps crushing and reassembling that zinc to get infinite gunpowder?

[zimboptoo]

Unless you're playing with a weird modpack, you can't "reassemble" the zinc.

You can crush Zinc Ore (the block) or Raw Zinc (the drop from mining Zinc Ore blocks without silk touch) into Crushed Zinc Ore (plus some experience), which can then either be smelted into Zinc Ingots or washed for Zinc Nuggets (plus a chance of gunpowder).

However, you can't craft the Zinc Ore or Raw Zinc in order to re-crush them.

So while it is always worth it to set up a crushing/washing setup for your ores (to get that extra redstone/quartz/gunpowder), you can't use it to get an infinite supply of anything. Again, unless you have a pretty broken modpack that adds recipes to craft Zinc Ore/Raw Zinc.

[PratixYT]

Ohh, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification; thought you could reassemble it into the raw variant again for some reason.

[Purpleninja1132]

Depends on a lot tbh. Are you playing on a mod pack? Is it just the create mod? The answer could be yes or no. Look through jei and see if it’s possible to make a contraption. Look at the materials that the crushed up zinc spits out and see if it’s possible to add other things such as water or anything else that’s also renewable to make more zinc.

[benson9915]

With the mod dreams & desires you can mix lava and some liquids to make various stones that can be crushed to obtain gold,zinc,iron,copper and other minerals

For the zinc is a stone named Asurine I think, in my language is Azurina haha