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A one-block mill that grinds glaze and pigment stock in water. Load what goes in and wait.
Obtaining
Usage
Milling one batch
The stock goes in the slots on the left, one item per slot. One, two or three of them — whichever the recipe wants. When the set is right the jar starts to turn, and a batch comes out when it has run its time. Which slot you use makes no difference.
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 milling, the drum surface pattern moves together with its lug to show the rotation. Both stop when milling stops.
Behavior
The water is already there
The grinding happens in water, but the mill holds its own; there is no bucket or bottle to add.
No fire underneath
Nothing is heated here, so there is nothing to light underneath. Time alone moves it.
One batch at a time
However many are stacked in the slots, one batch is made at a time; splitting the same stock across two slots makes no more of it.
In from above and the side, out below
Stock goes in from above or the sides and what is made drops through the bottom. What you can put in by hand is exactly what a hopper can push in.
Turning means working
While the knob on the jar goes round, the mill is working. A still jar means the set is not right yet, or that what it made has nowhere to go.
Related guides
In the real world
A pottery turns its glaze and pigment stock in a pot mill with water for hours on end, until the slip is even throughout. The Tsuboya kilns do the same with rice-husk ash, lime and white clay.
Differences in game
Satoyama has no grinding media to load and no fineness to dial in. What you put in decides what comes out; the rest is waiting.