Create: Brassworks

This is a small Create addon that gives you a few more ways to get and reuse brass.

The main idea is pretty simple: make brass progression a little less annoying without making brass basically free. In particular, it gives you a way to get brass without needing to hunt down a Nether Fortress first.

Renewable Zinc and Copper

Brassworks adds two new materials:

• Zinc Grit
• Copper Grit

Both can be obtained through Create’s washing mechanics:

• Washing gravel has a chance to give you Zinc Grit
• Washing sand has a chance to give you Copper Grit

This gives you a renewable source of both metals using stuff you can automate pretty early on.

Brass Dust

The main addition is Brass Dust.

You can craft it from copper, zinc, and coal or charcoal, then smelt or blast it into regular brass ingots.

Later on, you can automate the process with a Mechanical Mixer using copper, zinc, and Andesite Alloy. This recipe produces Brass Dust more efficiently than the basic crafting recipe.

Recycling

There are also a few crushing recipes for recycling brass parts you don’t need anymore:

• Brass Sheet → Brass Dust
• Empty Blaze Burner → Brass Dust, with a chance to get an Iron Sheet back
• Precision Mechanism → Brass Dust, with a chance to get Andesite Alloy back

You won’t get everything back, but at least old parts don’t have to be completely wasted.