[Expert] Alternate Recipes for Some Items that Require Iron

[MelodyCube]

Describe your suggestion

Here are a few items and blocks that would be nice to have available earlier than Chapter 2 without having to rely on quest rewards. I doubt these will affect progression, but these are of course only suggestions.

Utility

• Wrench (Thermal Series)
• Slot Seal (Thermal Series)
• Signalum Security Lock (Thermal Series)
• Remote Detonator (Thermal Series)
• Attachment: Filter (Thermal Series)
• Bulk Item Filter (Modular Routers)
• Framed Key (FramedBlocks)
• Skillet (Farmer's Delight)
• Goblet (Supplementaries)
• Cage (Supplementaries)
• Wind Vane (Supplementaries)
• Basic Lever (Redstone Pen)
• Basic Button (Redstone Pen)
• Basic Pulse Button (Redstone Pen)
• Metal Barrel (Immersive Engineering)
• Jerrycan (Immersive Engineering)

Decoration

• Ornate Iron Window (Create)
• Lantern (Immersive Engineering)
• Big Chain (Decorative Blocks)
• Chain (Minecraft)*
• Metal Bar (Engineer's Decor)
• Metal Sliding Door (Engineer's Decor)
• Dye Crafting Table (ManyIdeas Core)
• Candelabra (Hexerei)

* May have the knock-on effect of allowing the Glyph of Chaining slightly earlier. Probably doesn't matter.

Here are some that I figured I'd put here but probably don't matter much.

• Wrench (Powah) Not very useful in this pack.
• Bubble Blower (Supplementaries) Not very useful in general. Quark's Cloud in a Bottle covers its use case.
• Iron Gate (Supplementaries) Might be nice with Iron Bars, but you have to scavenge for those anyway.
• Rope and Nail (Comforts) By the time a Hammock becomes useful, you have access to iron.
• Charged Staff (Applied Energistics 2) Maybe just for parity with the Entropy Manipulator.
• Lock Block (Supplementaries)
• Spring Launcher (Supplementaries)
• Relayer (Supplementaries)
• Pulley (Supplementaries) Redstone devices that (to me) don't serve much decorative purpose.

Finally, I figured the Sophisticated Storage/Backpacks upgrades and the Functional Storage Simple/Compacting Drawers requiring iron are explicit design choices, but it'd be nice to have those too. (looking at how long this list is honestly if you wanted i could just try to design the recipes myself lol)

Why would you like this added/changed?

Wouldn't have to progress too far (or scour for iron in lich towers) to get some of these decorations and utilities.

[MuteTiefling]

Thanks for the list! Many of these seem perfectly reasonable. I'll have a more thorough look through later and see where things fall.