Better Grinder (archive)

A grinder block is placed down and attached to a handle, which is turned through a full rotation to complete one recipe. The default recipes are few and simple, letting vanilla ores be ground into dust and then smelted into ingots, which yields more metal per ore. The mod is deliberately barebones in its defaults, since it is mostly meant for modpack developers who add their own recipes.

Recipes can use chance-based outputs, so a grind has a set percentage chance of giving either a primary or a secondary output. Packs can add a secondary output slot to a recipe, and the mod uses the default recipe registry, so default recipes can be removed through datapacks or CraftTweaker. Hand cranks from other mods are supported through the plaingrinder:cranks block tag, and hoppers can insert items from the side and extract from below.

The mod is a fork of Plain Grinder by Lothrazar, keeping its original vision while fixing a number of its issues and adding missing features. CraftTweaker is an optional dependency that adds scripting support for recipes. Better Grinder runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it, and it is published for Forge 1.18.2 only.