just wanted to pop in and say how awesome these ideas are - your sprite work is fantastic

Most stuff looks great when it is taken form someone else's work...

I'm not the original creator of the assets. I've never hidden that fact and I never will.
I've only been remixing them using picture editors because I'd like to expand on Deadlock989's vision, out of passion, not malice.

• The original creator of most of the initial sprites is Deadlock989. You can find all their work on their profile, linked right here and on the mod's "information" tab.
• The rest of the sprites are lifted from Crushing Industries by SafTheLamb and Unused Renders by Malcolm Riley (which is also used by crushing industries).
• And of course, I reused sprites from the base Factorio game by Wube Software.

Again, I've never claimed to be original creator of these.

The cupric asteroids aren't from Crushing Industries, they are a standalone mod (also by Saf).

The cupric asteroids aren't from Crushing Industries, they are a standalone mod (also by Saf).

I've used the "big metallic asteroid" icon from Factorio's Space Age expansion in my icons to replace them actually. You can see it in the gallery images.
The Cupric Asteroids mod itselfs uses only vanilla resources, and has an MIT license (which lets anyone modify and use parts of it freely).
Nevertheless, no content from that mod has been used, so I don't see why it would even be a talking point...?

EDIT: oh, speaking of which, SafTheLamb did not make the "crushed holmium" sprites in crushing industries, right? They're from raiguard's Krastorio 2 assets, guess I should fix my attributions accordingly.