CVD Machine =/= Ball Mill

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So, if anyone is still tracking the my SHTF mod, you may have noticed with several peoples help, I was able to get the ball mill to work in game.
HOWEVER;
It works in the recipe only as a carried item. Now, I tried using a cvd machine in game but using the terrain editor via the Debug menu, but diamond recipes won’t work with it. So, that tells me a few things and leaves a few questions too:

Q1) Does the terrain editor not properly “cheat” in terrain or furniture to be used as a cvd machine should?
OR
Q2) Does the recipe for diamond items require a “legit found” cvd machine?

Q3) Does the cvd machine even work as it is supposed to; i.e. standing next to an actual terrain cvd machine allows you to craft diamond items?
Q4) Since I can’t find any proper usage or discussion concerning the cvd machine, has anyone actually properly used one to confirm its use as a static object?

And lastly, someone more towards my mod direction:
Q5)If a static terrain feature usable in a recipe is Not actually possible and the cvd is broken in a sense, would it be easier to simple make an insanely heavy “item” and give it a non-bug description unlike the cvd machine “item” and use that for gunpowder crafting?

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A1. It does as it should, the pseudo inventory stuff happens at inventory time. You might need to move or wait a turn for it to rebuild your crafting inventory cache though. Also, make sure you spawned in the right part of the CVD machine. There’s a control panel and a body, and I think it requires the body, not the control panel.
A2. No.
A3. Yes.
A4. Yes.
A5. It might be, but see above first.

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You’re probably better of creating furniture with the “crafting_pseudo_item” field:

Create an item type (hat never spawns) and use that type as “crafting_pseudo_item” and as required tool for your recipes.

This should work fine, it already works: anvil, still, forge (several types), smoking rack, kiln and probably more.

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Thats interesting, I will test the “wait a bit” scenario tomorrow when I’m off work. Gotta love 14 hours straight monday overnight. Anyways, I have moved a few times before, but maybe its several turns or maybe i should tele far away and walk back?

Well see now if I had truly understood the concept of psuedo furniture, I would have used that instead. Cloning a cvd machine obviously wasnt working, so far anyways.