Ash

Adds ash and ash processing.

Burning chemical fuel produces ash that must be removed or it will eventually backup the machine.

Ash has a stack size of 100.

Ash can be processed into more useful items:

Researching Landfill unlocks assembling machine recipe: 0.5 s + 500 ash → 1 landfill
Researching Advanced material processing 2 unlocks electric furnace recipe: 3.2 s + 20 ash → 1 stone brick
Researching Automation 3 unlocks assembling machine recipe: 1 s + 10 ash → (50% × 1 coal) + (5% × 1 iron ore)

These recipes can not be hand crafted. The recipe unlocked with Automation 3 may use productivity modules.

A setting is provided to enable trees and biters to drop ash as loot when they die from fire damage.

Space Age support

If you are playing with Space Age, these additional recipes are added:

Researching Biochamber unlocks biochamber recipe: 4 s + 20 ash + 50 water → 2 nutrients
Researching Foundation unlocks assembling machine recipe: 30 s + 4 tungsten plate + 4 lithium plate + 4 carbon fiber + 200 ash + 20 fluoroketone (cold) → 1 foundation

But why?

Pyanodons Coal Processing adds ash as a byproduct of burning chemical fuels. It's a fun mechanic, and I wished I could play with it without having to play with all the other added complexity of the Pyanodons suite. So I made this mod.

Credits

Ash icons from Unused Renders, released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.