Wafer Slicing
Silicon boules must be sliced into thin discs before use
Cheaper Glass
Sand and Quartz can be crushed and mixed together for Glass Dust, allowing you to craft glass for 1/4 the usual amount of sand.
Silicon Melting
Quartz dust can be melted into Silicon Metal
Silicon Wafer Engraving
Silicon Wafers must be laser-engraved before use
Silicon Boule Production
Molten Silicon Metal can be turned into solid dowels of silicon for wafer production
Stone Processing
Stone can be crushed into dust, and crushed again for basic materials like Iron and Copper.
Ore Cluster Processing
Ore clusters, which generate underground, can be smelted into a single block of ore, or crushed into significantly more of their respective resource
Gemstone Manufacturing
Gemstone dusts can be processed back into usable gemstones
Cheaper Netherite
Crushing Gold and Ancient Debris into dust and mixing them together allows to to make Netherite for 3 of each metal, rather than 4
Deepslate Processing
Deepslate can be crushed into dust, and crushed again for valuable minerals, including rare Bedrock Dust
Bedrock Alloy Tools
Tools crafted from rare Bedrock Dust and Netherite. They are unbreakable, but slow the player down when held.
Cheaper Bricks
Stone Bricks can be crafted cheaper at a rate of 2 stone blocks to 4 stone bricks by crushing the bricks into dust, and compacting them with lava.