Horse Press

The Horse Press is a horse-powered machine that presses items to extract fluids or produce other outputs. Useful for extracting oils, juices, and other liquids.

Setup

1. Place the Horse Press in an area with at least a 7x7 clear space around it.
2. Lead a horse (or other valid creature) with a lead.
3. Right-click the press while holding the lead to attach the creature.
4. The creature walks in circles, powering the press.

Checking the Working Area

Shift+Right-click the press with an empty hand to visualize the required working area. Green = clear, Red = obstructed.

Usage

1. Right-click with items to insert them.
2. Right-click with a filled bucket to fill the internal tank, or with an empty bucket to drain it.
3. The attached creature presses items automatically.
4. Right-click to extract any solid outputs.

Recipe

Fluid Tank

The Horse Press has an internal fluid tank used for both producing and consuming fluids:

• Recipes can fill the tank (seed pressing produces oil), or drain it (a recipe may consume a fluid input).
• Right-click with a filled bucket to fill, or an empty bucket to drain.
• Connect a fluid pipe or tank for automated fluid transfer.

Bottling

Buckets work because the game gives them a fluid-handler capability. Glass bottles have none, so they cannot take fluid out of a tank on their own. The press covers that with a bottling recipe list.

Right-click the press with a bottle (or whatever container a recipe names) and it drains that recipe's fluid from the output tank and hands back the filled item. Right-click with the filled item and the reverse happens: the fluid goes into the input tank and you get the empty container back.

One bottling recipe ships by default: a glass bottle takes 250 mB of water out of the press and becomes a water bottle. Press ice, snow, or dripstone for the water first.

Modpack makers can add more at data/<namespace>/recipe/bottling/<recipe>.json:

{
  "type": "horsepowered:bottling",
  "container": "minecraft:glass_bottle",
  "fluid": { "id": "minecraft:water", "amount": 250 },
  "result": {
    "id": "minecraft:potion",
    "components": { "minecraft:potion_contents": { "potion": "minecraft:water" } }
  }
}

• container: Ingredient. The empty container the player holds.
• fluid: the fluid and the amount in mB moved per click.
• result: the filled item handed back. Components are respected, so potions and other data-carrying items work.
• priority: optional, sort order in JEI. Lower numbers display first.

This is the way to make a fluid that only exists in bottled form (fruit juices and the like) removable from the press by hand. JEI lists every bottling recipe under a Bottling category.

Notes

• The press is two blocks tall.
• Some recipes require multiple input items or a specific fluid in the tank.
• Right-click with an empty hand to release the attached creature.
• The floor under the path scales work speed. See Horse Path & Speed.
• Available pressing recipes can be found in JEI/EMI.