Grinding Hopper

A Grinding Hopper is a magical machine that grinds up items. It turns ore and gems into dusts, allowing for ore doubling and the creation of reagents, turns bone into bone meal slightly more efficiently than simple crafting, and can even turn cobble into gravel or gravel into sand. There is a small chance when an item is processed that it will also produce a side product in addition to the main product such as a bit of gravel from ore or a bit of glowstone when grinding blaze rods into blaze powder.

To use the Grinding Hopper place the item in the machine by clicking on it while holding the item or dropping the item onto the machine. When the process is complete the item or items will be expelled from the bottom of the machine, if the machine is directly above a chest item will be placed in the chest.