How to combine damaged items?

[Jake_Jeremy]

Hey guys,

I want to build an semi-automatic metal production. To achieve that, I've made a tier 5 zombie pigman soul shard and built an automatic killing machine. Normally the gold ingots and nuggets would be enough to do what I want - but there are also those damaged swords they drop. I don't like to waste any material, so it would be awesome if you could tell me if there is any way I can combine two of those damaged swords, so I can melt them in an alloy furnace to produce even more gold.

Thank you!

 

[trencej]

Try putting two in a standard crafting table. Its a mechanic thats been in vanilla for a long time.

 

[Jake_Jeremy]

I know that, but I want to do that automatically, so I don't have to stand there all the time, as an Iron chest fills up in about 10 minutes. Sorry if I haven't made that clear in my post
Oh, and I forgot to mention that I already tried Fabricators, but they don't recognize two swords as a valid recipe.

€dit: Seems like crafty turtles are able to do this. If no one comes up with another good way, I'll probably just use them

 

[Darkprince97]

I know that, but I want to do that automatically, so I don't have to stand there all the time, as an Iron chest fills up in about 10 minutes. Sorry if I haven't made that clear in my post
Oh, and I forgot to mention that I already tried Fabricators, but they don't recognize two swords as a valid recipe.

€dit: Seems like crafty turtles are able to do this. If no one comes up with another good way, I'll probably just use them

Just use an automatic crafting table with an Autarchic Gate from BC

 

[Jake_Jeremy]

Thank you for your idea! But not all the swords have exactly the same damage value, so I would have to make a crafting table for every possible combination, and that would be too much work. What I've set up now is a filter that leads into a crafty turtle. It dumps all it's contents (except for the first to slots) into a chest above, crafts the swords and drops it down, where it gets into a barrel using a transposer, then it gets to swords from above and repeats it. Works like a charm!
But thank you for trying to help me

 

[Cubstep12]

Put a chest on top of the auto-crafting table and pipe the swords into that. Then pump out of the autocrafting table with a gate or an engine. Hope this helps

( This does work with swords with different damage values )

 

[southernfriedbb]

Not sure if it can be automated or not but the uncrafting table from twilight forest might work for you. I've never used it myself, just read about it.