NLYB: Looting and Exploration

Chests found while exploring can be captured as loot fragments. Opening a structure chest has a configurable chance, 25% by default, to drop a Loot Table Fragment tagged with its exact loot table. Nine partial fragments from the same source combine into a Basic Ghostchest, which stores the loot in a shrunken form. Ghostchests can be upgraded from Basic to Superior and then to Perfect, using 4 upgrades per tier, and higher tiers raise the odds of rare items.

A Loot Explorer takes Ghostchests, RF energy and Coal Pearls. After each roll cycle it dispenses an item from the loot. A Tree Minimizer, crafted by filling a glass bottle with 8 saplings, is placed inside the Loot Explorer to turn Ghostchests back into chest contents. While active, the explorer projects a 3D hologram of the structure it came from.

The Dripstone Extractor is a two-block-tall passive factory that makes Coal Pearls from loaded dripstones. It holds six dripstone slots, six output slots and four upgrade slots, and needs 50,000 RF and 100 mB of water per pass. Each loaded dripstone has a 2% chance per pass to drop a pearl, and four Speed Upgrades cut the pass time from 60 seconds to 30. Water can also be piped in through NeoForge's FluidHandler capability. A new ore appears in place of a share of vanilla pointed dripstones during world generation.