Trash

Unwanted trash items are an inevitability. Whether it's an excess byproduct of a processing chain or a surplus of mined rock, excess items have to be dealt with. GT:NH has multiple options for disposing of trash, some of which yield useful products of their own. The first consideration should be if the item's actually trash or not. Many resources have no uses in the early tiers but become more valuable later on, and vice versa. Unless certain an item is of no value, it's recommended to keep stockpiles of materials in chests, storage drawers or barrels.

Method	Type	Instant	Byproduct	Portable	Filter
Alchemical Furnace	Items	x	✓	x	x
Destructopack	Items	✓	x	✓	x
Recycler	Items	x	✓	x	x
Super Tank	Fluids	✓	x	x	✓
Trash Can	Items	✓	x	x	✓
Trash Can (Fluids)	Fluids	✓	x	x	✓
Void Chest	Items	x	x	x	x
Void Jar	Essentia	✓	x	x	✓
Void Stone	Items	✓	x	✓	x
Voiding Drop Filter	Items	✓	x	✓	✓
Voidlinked Bag	Items	✓	x	✓	✓

Portable Trash

Destructopack

The Destructopack from Bartworks is a portable version of Extra Utilities Trash Can, though it lacks filtering options. Its GUI is accessed with right-click and items can be dropped into the single slot or Shift-clicked/dragged to move multiple stacks. Any item given to the Destructopack is instantly deleted.

Void Stone

Similar to the Trash Can and Destructopack, the Void Stone from RandomThings is a portable one-slot GUI that instantly deletes any item given to it. Open the interface with right-click. Multiple items or stacks can be Shift-clicked/dragged for faster inventory clearing.

Voiding Drop Filter

The Voiding Drop Filter is the upgraded cousin of the Drop Filter, both from RandomThings. Like the Voidlinked Bag, it has an internal filter and requires an Item Filter (RandomThings) to function. The Item Filter only has nine slots, but can whitelist/blacklist, and filter or ignore metadata and ore dictionary tags. Unlike Extra Utilities' Item Filters, Random Things version cannot be nested.

Voidlinked Bag

The Voidlinked Bag is Witching Gadgets' version of the Voiding Drop Filter. Right-clicking with the bag opens a GUI with eighteen slots. Any item placed in this interface from the inventory or NEI leaves behind a ghost item, left-click on items to remove them. While carried in the player's inventory or hotbar any items registered in the Voidlinked Bag's GUI will be deleted on pickup. This does not affect items that are manually moved into the player's inventory from other locations nor taking items out of Storage Drawers. It does delete items retrieved from JABBA barrels.

Command/GUI Trash

NEI's Utility Mode has a Delete function which will trash items. When active, any item clicked on will be instantly deleted. Shift-click on an item deletes every stack of it, shift-click on the Delete button clears the player's entire inventory. Use extreme caution with this function, as its designed for Creative mode.

ServerUtilities has a trash can feature similar to Destructopack / Void Stone / Trash Cans. It can be invoked with the Trash Can GUI button or by an assigned keybind. ServerUtilities is not a default part of GT:NH and must be installed separately.

Trashing Blocks

Void Chest

Railcraft's Void Chest is a placeable inventory block that deletes any stack of items inside at the rate of once a second. Like a standard chest it cannot be opened if there's a solid full block above and it has the same inventory size. Given the Trash Can used in its recipe already voids items and it has no filtering, there's little reason to use it unless a delay for deleting many stacks is useful. It's part of the Void upgrade for JABBA Barrels.

Super Tank

Super Tanks can be used to void fluids, either any and all like a Trash Can (Fluids), their specifically locked fluid, or only overflow amounts.

Void Jar

Void Jars from Thaumcraft are trash options purely for Essentia. They function as a standard Warded Jar until full, at which point they will void any excess Essentia put into them. Like normal jars they can be labelled and have minimal priority on an Essentia Pipe network.

Trash Cans

Extra Utilities offers three placeable trash can items; Trash Can for items, Trash Can (Fluids) for liquids/gasses, and Trash Can (Energy) for power. The latter is uncraftable and used mainly for Creative Testing purposes. Any items placed in a Trash Can are immediately deleted. An Item Filter (Extra Utilities) can be configured to restrict Trash Cans to only void specific items by default. It has three crafting recipes that change behaviors to inverted (trash everything except what's filtered), Ignores NBT, and Ignores Metadata. Can be combined with Advanced Item Filters for complex logic. A Trash Can fitted with an Item Filter cannot be used to manually throw anything away as its single slot will be full, but will still accept items via logistics.

Recycler

Recyclers take unwanted items and have a percentage chance of yielding scrap, which can be turned into Scrap Boxes for UU-Matter production or a very poor chance at a useful item. It has an extensive blacklist that bans very common byproducts of mining / EEC use and fractional items. It can still be a usable dumping ground for the byproducts of processing lines that are otherwise unwanted, though its utility declines versus the better UUM production options of IC2 Crops.

Alchemical Furnace

The Alchemical Furnace from Thaumcraft is the second option for dumping unwanted items and getting a useful resource in return. Any item with aspects can be melted down with fuel into liquid essentia. This can be used for Infusion Crafting and certain types can power the Large Essentia Generator.