So I've been fiddlign with endergenic generators and... the same setup built 8 different times needed to be calibrated 8 times. Like, literally I just broke and replaced/relinked the generators. Doing that in survival as opposed to jsut fiddling to work out a good build means a high payoff, but going through a LOT of pearls just to calibrate the system timing.

That's why I thought maybe it'd be nice to have an easily-craftable item that behaves like an ender-pearl in the system, but generates no power no matter when it lands in the machine. Whether that be something that turns one ender-pearl into 4-16 psuedo-pearls for calibration, or constructing an actual tool that needs to be charged with RF, I think it'd be very helpful for tweaking in survival before one reaches The End.

Interesting idea. I'll think about that. I could even have that item remember statistics on when it arrived at every generator so that when it finishes its run it would get thrown in the world (so you would have to be close to pick it up again) and you can right click it to see what it has done