How to Crush Ice Blocks into Ice Shards

Setting Up the Crushing Wheels

Crushing wheels allow you to break down raw resources into smaller components needed for space-themed processing. To build a crushing station, suspend two crushing wheels side by side with a one-block gap between them. Configure your kinetic network so that the two wheels rotate inward toward each other. Directly below the wheels, install a conveyor belt to catch items as they are pulverized.

Processing Ice Blocks

With the crushing wheels actively spinning inward, feed your ice into the top opening:

• Drop any type of ice block into the gap between the spinning wheels.
• The crushing wheels will grind the ice blocks down immediately.
• The processed items drop below the wheels as ice shards onto your running conveyor belt.

Because any type of ice block is supported, you can collect regular ice, packed ice, or blue ice to maintain your supply. Connect the output conveyor belt to item filters, depots, or processing basins to route the ice shards directly into subsequent automated crafting pipelines.