The Cutting Board is an idea for a workstation where items can be cut down into multiple outputs.

Items would be applied on top of the board. When the station is right-clicked with a proper tool (usually a Knife), it takes some durability and chops the item into several others. This mechanic could either be simple, involving just a right-click, or more complex, involving cut directions to properly extract items from the board, in some kind of "puzzle" mechanic.

Recipe examples:

Knife

• Raw Salmon -> 2 Salmon Filet, 1 Bone Meal
• Raw Chicken -> 2 Chicken Cuts, 1 Bone Meal
• Wheat -> 1 Flour, 1 Straw
• Sugarcane -> 1 Sugar, 1 Straw

Axe

• Wood Log -> 1 Tree Bark, 1 Stripped Log
• 1 Door (2 cuts) -> 2 Planks

Shears

• 1 Saddle -> 2 Leather, 1 Iron Ingot
• 1 Horse Armor (8 cuts) -> 1-2 Armor Material, 1 Saddle

Basic Version - A simpler, more intuitive method that isn't skill-based and can be automated more easily.

• When right-clicked with an ingredient, it sits over the board:
  • Option 1: Invalid items can be placed, but cannot be cut with anything. Good for decorations;
  • Option 2: Invalid items cannot be placed.
• When the proper tool (usually the knife, but other tools can be used) is used on the board, the item is broken down:
  • Option 1: cutting always takes 1 right-click;
  • Option 2: recipes can define how many cuts the item needs, from 1 to 8, each consuming durability.
• Outputs are flung to the opposite side of the cutting board's handle. Players can grab it if within close reach, but otherwise the items can be captured by a hopper or basket in that direction.
• To automate:
  • Dispensers can use tools if facing a cutting board;
  • Hoppers can insert items into it, or maybe drop them on top.