Drying Rack

The Drying Rack is a passive wooden rack that slowly converts wet or raw items into a dried form. It holds 8 items at once in a 4x2 grid laid across the slats, and each slot ticks its own progress timer independently, so you can load the rack one slot at a time without resetting anyone else's progress.

Usage

1. Place the Drying Rack on the ground (it can face any direction).
2. Right-click with an input item in hand to place it on the slot you clicked. Only one item per slot.
3. Wait for the recipe's drying time to elapse. The slot's item is replaced with the dried output on completion.
4. Right-click with an empty hand on a filled slot to take the item back. Works for both drying-in-progress items and finished outputs.

Automation

Hoppers and pipes can interact with the rack from any side:

• Insert: only items with a registered drying recipe are accepted. One item per empty slot.
• Extract: only finished items can be pulled out. Items still drying are locked in.

A full pipeline is possible: hopper above feeding raw input, hopper below pulling finished output.

Recipe

Notes

• The rack does not require power, fuel, or a worker. Drying happens passively over time.
• Partial-progress items survive a chunk reload.
• Available drying recipes can be found in JEI/EMI.