Enriching Industry


Adds further ore enrichment to Crushing Industry for even more yield at the cost of increased complexity. Some might call it win-win.

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Mining Manufacturing

i Additional byproduct configurations/settings

23 days ago

Hello again! Been enjoying the mod quite a bit. That said though, I have noticed from playing with EI a bit further (setup a full iron-ore -> crush -> leaching/solution -> recrystallization -> iron-plate -> steel-plate production line prioritizing the use of byproducts), to which I found the amount of byproducts to be a bit much for the recrystallization step specifically - that is, if the math I did was correct, it's actually sulfur positive for the amount of sulfuric acid required.

Thankfully the recrystallization byproduct probability can be configured, but unfortunately not for the sulfur byproduct. I found reducing both by a factor of 5 - 7 or so seems to have put them at a good level for the moment (50% -> 10% chance of the alternative enriched ore, and 35% -> 5% for sulfur).

Another thought, would be to either increase the sulfuric acid requirement, and/or make it a configurable setting.

As far as configurable settings, would it be possible to add settings such that the byproduct probabilities can be configured independently of each other? i.e. a setting for sulfur from iron recrystallization; a setting for copper from iron recrystallization; a setting for sulfur from copper recrystallization; and a setting for iron from copper recrystallization.

No rush on this either, as I have already created a small local mod that makes the above probability changes for the moment.

23 days ago

Yes, the recrystallization is sulfur positive on purpose. The washing processes produce sulfur as byproduct and I thought it would be fun to keep it that way with leeching. It also encourages players to keep the metal-byproducts to some degree in order to make sulfuric-acid on site when refining copper-ore.

I want to add more settings, like the by-product rates but I'm still thinking about how to do that. Currently tending towards what I did in Basic Chemistry with the Full Control sub-mod. Offer some settings by default and advanced settings to those who want “full control” (like myself). However, that is some rather boring and tedious work …

Glad you're still enjoying the mod and thanks for the in-depth testing, the feedback is highly appreciated!

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