I feel that for a minor release like 0.9.11 to 0.9.12 you're adding pretty big changed to the game. Many of them breaking existing production chains. And other require a lot of re-calculating for saturated production lines.

Talking about those:

- Added viruses! End game capsule that players can use to remove creep definitively (from the map), or reduce the biters on the map drastrically.
- Reduced blank tech card production, now require 2s instead of 1s and need double ingredients in input for the same output.
- Increased richness of Imersite.
- Modified matter to sulfur value, from 7.2 to 8.
- Changed labs recipes, now they require the previous lab tier as ingredient.
- Optimization tech cards have been removed from many technologies. Now you can access to advanced buildings much earlier.
- Slightly reduced sand consumption.
- Added water into lithium production recipe.
- Nuclear artillery shell moved into Atomic bomb technology.
- Now sand can't anymore be converted in matter, to avoid cheaty matter creation loops.
- Reduced cost for turret ammo.
- Now all smelting recipe have the same time(energy) cost.
- Reduced amount of sand in the Imersite powder recipe.
- Now crusher destroy items quicker (5->2).
- Now you can crush Imersite crystals for Imersite powder production.
- Many minor changes.

Agree with you. That rebalance may have consequences for my run

How we have write in the main description:

"Guys, we would like to apologize for the fact that in the latest updates the recipes, translation and some things in the game are changing. We actively monitor how you play, watch streams and LPs, read a bug reports. And we try to improve the gameplay. Therefore, if it is important for you to have a 100% ready-made mod that will not to change, then please wait for 0.9.99 or 1.0 version of the mod. Now the mod is still in open beta stage. Now we are actively working on fixing bugs plus problems caused by the pandemic and we have almost no time to create something new. But it seems that the amount of bugs has greatly decreased and soon we will return to work on a new contend. We have plans to release updates for the turrets, which will change the design for the railgun and rocket turrets and add a new laser turret."

I'm sorry but we are trying to make the mod more balanced, and there were many problems... in a bit more than a month with think to release the 1.0.

How do these changes (e.g. adding water to Lithium recipe) make it more balanced? For example I get the change to include Quartz in Laser turrets, because otherwise Quartz had no use other than being molten into silicon. However, adding water feels like just a nuissance tbh.

Is not easy balance big overhauls, we add a lot of contents, and balancing on all feedbacks can mean touch many recipes, quartz was a problem in KL too, we will try to use it more in future.

Quartz use water because filtration plant have no sense to work without a fluid, and we designed to filter the quartz from the sand, anyway, if u find recipes bad designed, u are free to make ur custom version of recipes and change the mod how u prefer with a plugin mod, the mod is under GNU GPLv3 so u can deep in the code without worries, and inside of it there's an easy to use library to modify the game.

The continues receipe changes while in play has also made me stop playing krastorio 2
The Mod brought me fun for a big 3 / 4 weeks of play .. I love this mod.!

I am almost finished now (the Phase of building the intergalactic radar so I don't update for now.. )
I am running on .11 now and figuring out to end the game on this version..

I'm sorry for ur bad experience, I hope u can enjoy the mod after the 1.0 release, remember that nobody forces u to update and isn't mandatory.