Made for 1.20.3 - should be functional with other versions just fine as it only adds recipes.

Realistic uses for all that old junk, without needing to be a Tinkerer by trade! Compatible w/ Repairable and Upgradable Locusts and Craftable Companion by Pal_5000 and ifoz' Clothing Additions by ifoz and I highly recommend using their mods in combination with this one.

NOTE: I attempted to make these recipes as fair and balanced/immersive as possible, while still ensuring the Hacked Locust is a near-mid-game item. You may luck out and make one sooner rather than later, but honestly I don't see it as a problem. Locusts are cool.

Current features:

1.0:

1. Craft Tuning Spears without being a Tinkerer. It's more expensive, since you can't make the fancy Sub-Assembly or Dual Valence Emitter in the Tuning Spear with *only* scrap metal, metal parts, and temporal gear like a Tinkerer could- but this works just as well!

2. Turn old scrap parts into a working Hacked Locust!

3. Repair broken Hacked Locusts and broken Hacked Sawblade Locusts without being a Tinkerer! (Also more expensive, but hey at least now you can work on all this stuff until you find a Trader to purchase a guidebook!)

4. Use a chisel to break down extra Metal Parts into 5 Cupronickle Bits and Metal Scrap into 5 Iron Bits! (Second recipe is also a feature of Better Scrap, but I felt it was worth adding here too for those who don't have it/don't want ot use it.)

1.1:

5. Ifoz's Clothing compatibility added,with a new cheaper recipe for making and dyeing the Locust Shawl and Mechanic's Shirts from remnants of old Locust Cages!

6. Inactive Locust Nest Cage recipe added, keep a piece of their old home for your pet locusts, or add it to your study/workshop/laboratory for further research!

7. Make your own basic Luminescent Jonas Lamp! They are a bit expensive, but now you have another immersive use for those Dual Valence (electron) Emitters and Flux Gap Connectors (vacuum tubes...?). (Only the basic Jonas Lamp for now- maybe more later?)

8. Break down those old copper Metal Tanks (not to be confused with Metal Barrels) with a Chisel into 100 Copper Bits (worth 5 Copper Ingots when smelted!).

9. Overalls! Finally make some (Clockmaker's) overalls for all your tinkering or farming needs! (all other Clockmaker's clothes remain unchanged/uncraftable- there's no other overalls in vanilla to utilize/give a recipe to.)

10. Scrap those ruined Helpers into a useable Mechanical Helper Companion Power Supply for a new Craftable Companion!

1.2:

11. Fixed the name on the mod menu- whoops.

P.S. HOW DO I ADD IMAGES ON THIS HELLSITE