Japanese pronunciation: うすときね (usutokine)
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A wooden mortar and pestle for polishing rough rice and pounding steamed rice into mochi.
Obtaining
Usage
Polish rough rice
Pound rough rice to remove its hull and bran, producing polished rice or glutinous rice. Separated rice bran collects in the byproduct slot. Both outputs can flow into a hopper below. Processing pauses when a required output slot is full.
Assembly
A wooden pickaxe is built into the mortar as its pestle.
Accepted material examples
Dedicated material slots accept only materials used in that role. Empty slots show faint examples of accepted materials, cycling through the alternatives. Quick moves from your inventory and hopper insertion follow the same restrictions.
Load it and wait
Load steamed glutinous rice and wait: it comes out as mochi, stretchy and smooth. No heat source is needed. The pestle only appears while the mortar is working, rising and falling into its hollow. White mochi is visible inside the hollow while pounding.
Input, work in progress and output
Restock the input slots on the left. A valid batch moves into the bright working slots in the middle, then finishes in the output slots on the right. Restocking or replacing input does not change that batch. Working items can be recovered, but cannot be inserted directly. Removing part of a batch cancels it; recover the remainder before starting another.
Slot layout and supply
While working, a wooden mallet with a tall vertical head and a thin horizontal handle rises and falls over the mochi. Wood grain covers both the head and handle.
Behavior
One thing at a time
Rice polishing and mochi pounding each take one ingredient in a single input slot. To combine ingredients, use the suribachi.