Grinder

The Grinder is a midgame processing building with a wide range of recipes, making it one of the most flexible support structures in the settlement. It turns basic raw materials into a variety of processed goods used by multiple industries, so it often functions as a secondary production hub rather than a single-purpose workshop.

Its recipe list is broad and covers several different resource chains:

• 6 Flour from 3 Grain with 550 Work
• 8 Salt from 1 Halite with 600 Work
• 4 Lime Powder from 1 Limestone with 600 Work
• 4 Bone Powder from 2 Bone with 650 Work
• 6 Joy Powder from 1 Joy Flower with 3232 Work
• 3 Oil from 4 Petals with 450 Work
• 3 Oil from 1 Fish with 450 Work
• 4 Oil from 2 Luminator with 450 Work
• 6 Lime Powder from 1 Coral with 600 Work

Because the Grinder handles so many different products, it is useful for supplying several downstream buildings at once. That flexibility also makes it somewhat difficult to fine-tune: if you only need to deliver a small amount of one processed item to another facility, building too many Grinders can easily create excess stock. For that reason, it is usually best to manage it with production conditions rather than letting it run freely on every recipe.

A practical way to use it is to reserve its output priorities for your core supply lines first, then allow surplus capacity to be redirected into Joy Powder. If Flour, Oil, Salt, Lime Powder, and Bone Powder are all sufficiently stocked, extra production can be shifted into Joy Powder automatically. This works well because Joy Powder has a very large export potential, and maximizing it can justify running many Grinders without wasting their capacity.

A few useful points:

• The Grinder is valuable as a general-purpose processor for both food and industrial materials.
• It can convert Coral into Lime Powder, but if Coral Gem can be made in the Jewelry Workshop, that route is more profitable.
• If Limestone is scarce, using the Grinder for Lime Powder should be limited to small-scale needs.
• Producing surplus Joy Powder is a strong way to absorb excess Grinder capacity.
• Since several recipes depend on different raw material chains, placing the building near reliable input storage helps keep it working steadily.

Overall, the Grinder is most effective when treated as a flexible processing center that supports multiple chains at once, rather than as a single dedicated factory.