I use a crafting frame for my essences, I just pick up which ever stone I need and hold the essence and hit the frame constantly.would be cool if the compacting drawer would have an "crafting" upgrade, which would make it behave like a crafting frame, something that contains max 2 different ingredients which show in the bottom slots and the finished product in the top slot. pretty handy for those easy recipies wich you need loads of like torches or essences, and indeed, when using the controller, any jabba barrels connected to the row of drawers to be used would be pretty handy for that one item you got loads of