WARNING: This mod is in early Alpha! It's content and graphics - especially not the graphics - are not representative of the whole mod.

Paradox Tech is a mod that aims to add new technologies, production chains, etc. to Factorio without completely overhauling the vanilla experience. At the moment, it doesn't offer much, but much more is planned down the line.

Features:
- Arc Furnace and Casting Machines: Melt your ores down then cast them into plates or ingots to increase ore yield.
- Electrolysis: Make oxygen and hydrogen from water and use Oxygen to purify molten metal.
- Fluid Void: For all your useless (at the moment) Hydrogen.
- Programmer art: Some people view it as a feature.
- A new science pack!
- Oxygen is now required for solid fuel.

Changelog:

0.3.0:

Factorio Version:
- Updated to 0.18

Slag Slurry:
- Byproduct of refining molten metal.
- Can be reprocessed to produce more molten metal after unlocking the respective tech.
- Reprocessing slag slurry will have a byproduct in a future update.

Recipes:
- Smelting ores to molten metal in the arc furnaces now takes 60 ore and makes 900 molten metal.
- Casting machines now take 1 second to cast; chem plants now take 1 second to refine molten metal.

Technology:
- Removed Metallurgy science pack.
- Re balanced costs and research time for Metallurgy-related technologies.

Graphics:
- Slight touch ups for Arc Furnace and Casting Machine.
- Electrolysis recipe/tech now has an icon.
- Molten metals now have custom icons.

Fixes:
- Steel Ingots can now be smelted into steel plates.
- The vanilla iron plate recipe is no longer overridden.

0.2.1: Iron plate recipe is no longer overriden.

0.2.0:

Arc Furnace:
- Did graphics and sound pass.

Clean Coal:
- New technology allows you to unlock a recipe for cleaning coal.
- Clean coal gives double the energy of regular coal and emits less pollution.
- Cleaning coal also gives you a small amount of sulfuric acid as a byproduct.

Steel Production:
- Molten iron can now be refined into molten steel using the chem plant.
- 100 molten iron yields 60 molten steel

Misc:
- The Metallurgy technology and science pack now have improved icons.

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Planned (but not guaranteed):
- Uses for Hydrogen (maybe fusion)
- Justification for Metallurgy Science packs.
- Maybe a new tier of circuits.
- Gold
- Coal refining and coke production.
- Natural gas processing.
- Maybe a dedicated building for refining molten metals.