What should I do with gold/iron armor from grinder

[EvilOwl]

Hi guys.

 

What do you do with the huge amount of gold / leather / iron armor from zombies / skeletons?

It's bloating my ME network.

For now I'm sending them to a extra utilities trash can with a fuzzy export bus (durability below 50%) but isn't there a better way of handling it?

 

Is there any way to melt / convert them to something useful?

 

Also what to do with bows?

Edited May 30, 2014 by bochen415

[Curunir]

Sometimes they drop with enchantments. You can leech those off with an MFR Disenchanter (and a supply of empty books to receive them). You could opt to manufacture Magical Wood that way, if it tickles your fancy.

 

Otherwise, a Trash Can seems a good option.

[EvilOwl]

Is there a way of filtering enchanted / not enchanted items to automate this?

[Curunir]

None that I know of. I am sorting the worthwhile items out manually.

[Kezr]

Is there a way of filtering enchanted / not enchanted items to automate this?

I think the MFR Enchantment Router might be what you're looking for.

[jakalth]

You could always collect the armor pieces.  make a large castle.  build a long central hallway into said castle.  Line each side of the hallway with armor stands.  And use the armor pieces you get from the grinder to decorate these armor stands, giving your castle the feel of having an entire army garrisoned there.

[Kotja]

Armor stand?

You mean leather sorrouded by sticks?

[SirLappy]

Any piece of gold armor, fully repaired, should yield minium dust when burned in a calcinator.  That's the most useful thing I've found to do with them.

[Curunir]

Good find, SirLappy.

I will add that information to the EE3 thread.

[Nensec]

Doesn't even need to be fully repaired, chests for example need not nearly as much repair as boots do; just hover over the item and check the EMC value. If it is > 8192 then it gets you minium dust.