The pulverizer is a slow and simple block that crushes ores and biomass into dust. It gives a better yield than directly smelting raw ores. It is available early in the tech tree, even before the fragment forge.
It is the earliest machine that meaningfully improves ore processing efficiency, so it is often the first production machine worth keeping installed.
Automated Processing
Beyond basic ore processing, the pulverizer is commonly used to grind biomass for generators or produce coal dust for carbon composite materials.
Small dusts in the output slots will be auto-combined if possible.