Similar to bathing a crystal in liquid starlight to increase it's size, can you also add that functionality to a Starlight Infuser? It can still be at 100% use of liquid starlight, but at the same time you can make it so that once provided starlight from a collector crystal, it'll be much faster than just waiting for a bunch of crystals to finish bathing.

If this was added it would probably be at the cost of spliting the crystal, since i believe the infuser only has room for one item in it. Also, i thought there was code to prevent the crystals from despawning. i know i have acidently left crystals lying around for over a minecraft day with no problems.

Dunno, might be good to have it increase size and just never split the crystal at max size, so ignoring it eats up starlight for no gain.

There shouldn't be any issue with splitting the crystal if they drop out of the infuser after each size growth/split -- the items that have completed infusing no longer count as "inside" the infuser, they're just sitting in-world. (This can be seen when you can put a new aquamarine into the infuser without taking the previously infused one.)

It was more a "cost for the convenience" thing.

I like this idea, seems like a natural progression of the mod, plus no in world to despawn and more uses for the starlight infuser, win all around