The Crucible (New machine concept idea)

[drifting glacier]

Dont know what to do with the endless amount of tiny ingots you got? here's the solution:
The crucible is a machine that can melt and combine multiple ingots of the same material into a single bigger ingot (or just resize a single one)

• 1 input conveyor. This input is elevated above ground, and can only accept materials outputted by a forge, such as ingots. If a different resource would enter, it will just come out of the exit as if nothing happend.
  How does it handle different materials? Let's say you just placed the Crucible, and put inside a bar of Gold. The machine will now only access gold bars, and any other material will be ignored, as if it was wood or any other non-processable material for a crucible. The material activate is displayed by the color of the bar (3)

• 2. output conveyor. Once you activate the machine (4) or it reaches it's limit (3) it will produce an ingot of the resource you chose with the dimensions you decided in (5)
• 3. capacity displayer. This bar displayes 2 informations:
     the material that is being stocked (trough it's color, for example yellow for pyrite or green for uranium)
     the amount of it stored. Once the top of the bar is reached, the machine will automatically generate the maximum size ingot
• 4. Run button. This button, toggable by pressing "E" on the machine, clicking it with the cursor, or with a wire impulse will instantly consume all the resource stored in the machine to produce an ingot
• 5. Output size. Here you can adjust the size of an ingot, same way as in a forge.

It would be sold either in a new shop or at Alan's AutoLogistics, with a price of at least 85000$
Its a luxury item, not really a gamechaning one. It can benefit builders and automations, and can help making your base look more organized
the idea is generating items similar to lt2's "modded wood" but without any glitch. Also, since its melting the items, it only works with ingots, and not wood.

Sorry for any mistakes/typos 🥑

[vast sentinel]

so kinda like a compressor

can it produce ores/ingots of one uniform size (1x2 for example)

[lost bane]

we need this

[vast sentinel]

we should be able to control the length (not width/height) of the output ngl