Codex Processing Plant Processor

Plant Processor

The Plant Processor presses plants: seeds into plant oil, crops, kelp, leaves and saplings into plant fiber and bio slurry, and plant fiber with bone meal into bio fertilizer. It is the start of the bio chain: the slurry ferments into ethanol in the Chemical Reactor, and ethanol becomes ethylene and then plastic.

Property	Value
Tier	1
Energy buffer	20,000 E
Max. input	4000 E/t
Input slots	2
Output slots	2
Upgrade slots	3
Recipe type	Plant Processing

The Plant Processor window: 1 input slots, 2 progress, 3 output slots, 4 upgrade slots, 5 energy and tank bars, 6 value, status and redstone lines, 7 buttons (redstone mode, telemetry, codex).

What it does

Put plants into the two input slots and give the machine energy. One run takes the ingredients, uses energy every tick and puts the products into the two output slots and the two output tanks. The tanks have no fixed roles: each fluid goes into the tank that already holds it, or into an empty one, so plant oil and slurry stay apart.

Recipes

In	Out	E/t	Ticks
2 × any Crops	Plant Fiber, 100 mB Bio Slurry	30	100
4 × Plant Fiber, Bone Meal	4 × Bio Fertilizer	30	120
2 × Kelp	Plant Fiber, 100 mB Bio Slurry	30	60
4 × any Leaves	Plant Fiber, 50 mB Bio Slurry	30	80
any Saplings	Plant Fiber, 100 mB Bio Slurry	30	80
4 × any Wheat Seeds	100 mB Plant Oil	30	80

The recipes use tags, so plants from other mods work too, as long as they carry c:seeds, c:crops, minecraft:leaves or minecraft:saplings.

Energy and upgrades

The Plant Processor takes energy on every side, from a Pipster cable, a generator next to it or any FE or Team Reborn Energy source. When the buffer holds less than one tick of the current run, the run waits and keeps its progress.

The three upgrade slots at the right edge take one kind each:

Upgrade	Up to	Effect per upgrade
Speed Upgrade	2	half the time, 2.8 times the power
Efficiency Upgrade	3	0.85 times the power
Parallel Upgrade	2	2, then 4 copies per run, 1.25 times the power per doubling on top

Upgrades count from the next run. The buffer and the maximum input grow by the same factor as the power. A parallel run only starts as many copies as the inputs hold and the outputs and tanks have room for.

Automation

• Pipes, hoppers and other mods can put items into the two input slots from every side, but only items that a recipe uses.
• Upgrades can be inserted the same way; each slot takes only its own upgrade.
• Items can only be taken out of the two output slots; fluid pipes can drain both tanks from every side.
• When an output slot or a tank is full, the finished run waits until there is room. Pipe the fluids away, or the machine stops as soon as one tank is full.

Redstone

The R button in the top right corner switches the redstone mode: always runs, runs with a signal, or runs without a signal.

What the status line says

Status	Meaning
Idle – waiting for inputs	No recipe fits the inputs (or they are empty).
Running	A run is in progress.
Waiting for energy	The buffer is too low; the progress is kept.
Output full – take the products out	The items or fluids of the finished run do not fit.
Paused by redstone	The redstone mode stops the machine. A Grid Monitor that pauses machines shows the same text.

Building it

The Plant Processor needs iron plates (from the Metal Former), a hopper, a composter and a bucket.

	Hopper
	Composter		→ Plant Processor
	Bucket

When you break it, it keeps its energy, the fluids in its tanks and its redstone mode; items, upgrades and the ingredients of a running job drop.

In the world

While it runs, the auger turns and carries the item from left to right, pressing it smaller on the way. Compost specks rise from the press, it gurgles now and then like a composter, and the machine gives off a little light.

Tip

Fertilizer for the farm Four plant fiber and one bone meal give four Bio Fertilizer. The Farming Station uses it like bone meal, so one bone meal does the work of four.