Modding Help Is there a way to set a crafting station to craft without player input?

Heya, I'm working on a mod that uses the refinery as a base that turns one item into another, only I want the crafting station to be active as soon as the correct item is placed inside rather than need the player to press a button. I have it set up to work if the player isn't using it (I don't remember if that's the case in the base game or if it's caused by a function I nabbed from FU, which the mod depends on) as the crafting recipe takes a long time (by design). I tried just removing the craft button but that didn't work.

 

Are you considering using lua scripting?
Look at the mod "The Universal Uncrafter"
I think it does more or less what you want. It converts one thing into another in a loop as soon as the thing is put inside the input slot.
You basically define a script to call in the .object json and a time between calls like this:

Code:

"scripts" : [ "mymachine.lua"],
"scriptDelta" : 30,

and inside the mymachine.lua script you fill up the callback

Code:

function update(dt)