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Feature: Papermaking Overhaul with Wood #739

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What is the new behavior?

This PR looks to add a new method of creating Paper without the utilization of Papyrus or Hides via implementing a lengthy process of transforming specific types of wood into paper, closely mimicking modern methods of creating paper

The process can be broken down into the following Steps:

  1. Get "Hardwood" (refers to specific wood types, which are detailed in both the rowboat and papermaking entries in the field guide)
  2. Strip Hardwood Log
  3. Shave Hardwood Log to get Hardwood Strip
  4. Soak the Hardwood Strip in Water
  5. Quern the Soaked Hardwood Strip to get Hardwood Pulp
  6. Boil the Hardwood Pulp in Lye to create Thermochemically treated hardwood pulp
  7. Press the Thermochemically Treated Hardwood Pulp into Soaked Unrefined Paper
  8. Dry the Soaked Unrefined Paper into Unrefined Paper
  9. Scrape the Unrefiend Paper into Paper

Utilizing Greg-Tech and Create, specific steps can be skipped altogether to make the creation of paper easier. The steps using only gregtech are:

  1. Get "Hardwood"
  2. Place Hardwood into a Cutter with a programmed circuit configured to 2 to get Hardwood Strips
  3. Macerate Hardwood Strips to create Hardwood Pulp
  4. Mix the Hardwood Pulp in a Mixer to create Thermochemically Treated Hardwood Pulp
  5. Press the Thermochemically Treated Hardwood Pulp in a Forge Hammer to get Paper

Implementation Details

Hardwood Types:

  • acacia
  • ash
  • aspen
  • birch
  • blackwood
  • chestnut
  • hickory
  • maple
  • oak
  • rosewood
  • sycamore
    • all other woods are considered "Softwood", which are also the kinds of wood you can use to craft Canoes

This feature was created using mainly KubeJS. Some things of note:

  1. The recipe to get Lumber from any kind of wood has been changed to use the circuit configuration 1. This technically breaks any factory that uses this recipe and as such should be looked over carefully.

  2. The original Chemical Bath recipe for paper has been removed

  3. Wood Pulp has been renamed into "Softwood Pulp", and can now only be created using Softwood (Woods from which you can create Canoes)

  4. Any recipe (except crafting) that used Wood Pulp as an input has been changed to use a custom item tag called #tfg:wood_dusts, in which both Hardwood and Wood Pulp are present. Changing the recipe to use the Forge tag #forge:dusts/wood caused issues where the player could create Wood Pulp using Hardwood Pulp

  5. Any recipe that had Wood Pulp as an output, and as an input used a Hardwood, had its output replaced so the recipe creates Hardwood Pulp instead; This is especially noticeable in the Lathe Logs and Macerator Recipes

  6. Solar Drier has been made cheaper by changing the Stainless Steel rods into Silver Rods, the same material used for creating Solar Boilers (idea by @Pyritie)

  7. Lye can now be crafted in a mixer

  8. Wood Ash can now be created by blasting charcoal powder

Outcome

  • 9 New Items
  • 8 New Tags
  • 20 new recipes
  • 2 recipes removed
  • Too many recipes changed (due to list item number 5 in inplementation recipes
  • Extension of Papermaking Entry in the Field Guide explaining the process

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Potential Compatibility Issues

Again, i had to make the cutter recipe that created lumber from logs use the configuration number 1 instead of no configuration, this is a breaking change and can be reverted if necesary
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@Nebby1999 Nebby1999 marked this pull request as ready for review January 20, 2025 17:57
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As requested by pyritie, I'm marking this PR back into a draft. I'll also implement FTB Quests (for an excuse to learn how it works)

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Added FTBQuests, and with that, my PR is ready for review by exception

@Xikaro Xikaro added the 1. Type: Feature New feature or request. label Jan 21, 2025
@Xikaro Xikaro added this to the 0.7.19 milestone Jan 21, 2025
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I decided to replace the blasting charcoal powder for wood ash recipe with Washing torches for wood ash and sticks. Mimicking the regular method of obtaining wood ash by throwing torches into water

@Exzept1on Exzept1on merged commit d8fa521 into TerraFirmaGreg-Team:main Jan 25, 2025
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