I am working my way through the Hard mode of Cerys and having a blast so far (yes, it's hard, yes I drop dead quite often) but without having mastered anything regarding the charging rods, I ran into power problems.

Of course the idea is to get the reactor running properly, but as I was running out of cells, and Solar was not cutting it anymore (having half of the planet blanketed) to keep my bot network powered up, I looked for alternatives.

One of the other mods I am running in our playthrough is the Corrundum planet mod, which offers the "Dilution of Sulfuric Acid" recipe, using water and Sulfuric acid to create Sulfuric Acid Dilute. This can then in turn be used, when combined with calcite to create "hot water (100c)" that can be used to directly create 500c steam using some solid fuel. I obviously had a Eureka moment, as I was not the player who finished Corrundum in our game, but after having looked through so many alternative ways to create heat and steam, it appears all of these are blocked to be crafted on Cerys.

Has this recipe chain slipped through the cracks, and should also not be possible to be crafted on Cerys? (I do realise I am screwing myself if this recipe will be blocked, but hey.. hard mode :') )

Thank-you for your work stress testing the Cerys autobans! :)

The autobans now apply to recipes that produce steam and do not consume another autobanned resource.

Any feedback on Hard Cerys is appreciated. Solar wind damage has just been nerfed given that a recent update made Cerys radiation armor-piercing. The player now ought to be able to take 3 hits without dying. The robot power multiplier was also adjusted from 4x to 3x today.