Crushing Industry


Add early-game crusher variants for crushing sand to smelt into glass, and crushing ore and coal for more efficient smelting

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Version: 0.4.11
Date: 2025-08-01
  Changes:
    - Fix big crusher recycling recipe
Version: 0.4.10
Date: 2025-07-27
  Compatibility:
    - Cerys: Fulgoran crusher can now crush asteroids again
Version: 0.4.9
Date: 2025-07-26
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix incorrect internal recipe name
Version: 0.4.8
Date: 2025-07-26
  Changes:
    - Remove coal from stone crushing (sand) byproducts
  Compatibility:
    - AAI Industry: Electric crusher now more closely recipe convention
    - Cerys: Space crusher balance changes are now applied to Cerys' Fulgoran crusher
    - Cerys: Carbonic asteroid and stone crushing are now unbanned from Cerys
Version: 0.4.7
Date: 2025-07-08
  Compatibility:
    - Scrappy Industry: Remove superfluous version check
Version: 0.4.6
Date: 2025-07-07
  Compatibility:
    - Krastorio 2 + Moshine: Unhide glass if it is hidden
    - Krastorio 2 Spaced Out: Fix typo in dependencies
Version: 0.4.5
Date: 2025-06-19
  Changes:
    - Use the Multi-spoil library for concrete mix barrels spoiling into concrete
    - Big crusher now costs an Electric crusher even without SA
  Compatibility:
    - AAI Industry: Burner crusher now uses motors instead of gear wheels (electric crusher recipe will be adjusted soon(TM))
    - Krastorio 2: Compatibility mode that merges sand and glass recipes (not finished, but a good start)
Version: 0.4.4
Date: 2025-06-13
  Changes:
    - Buff burner crusher crafting speed from 0.5 to 0.75
    - Buff electric crusher crafting speed from 0.75 to 1
    - Fix alt icon location to match other 2x2 machines like furnaces
    - Don't generate concrete mix barrel recipes unless concrete mix is enabled
Version: 0.4.2
Date: 2025-06-08
  Changes:
    - Concrete mix barrels now spoil into 5x the amount of concrete
    - Concrete mix barrels now spoil 3x faster
  Locale:
    - Add RU locale (credit: onseshigo)
  Compatibility:
    - Use additional_categories where possible to reduce mod compatibility issues
Version: 0.4.1
Date: 2025-05-31
  Minor Features:
    - Add Tungsten carbide from crushed ore recipe
Version: 0.4.0
Date: 2025-05-20
  Changes:
    - Reduce cost scale for crushed tungsten ore in tungsten plates from 2.5 to 2
    - Reduce cost scale for crushed iron ore in advanced thruster fuel from 2.5 to 2
  Compatibility:
    - Add settings for BZ Tin and BZ Carbon compatibility (enabled by default)
Version: 0.3.15
Date: 2025-05-11
  Changes:
    - Prevent all productivity bonuses from being applied to asteroid reprocessing recipes
Version: 0.3.14
Date: 2025-05-11
  Changes:
    - Electric crusher is now always unlocked by researching engines
    - Crushed ores are no longer added to asteroid crushing when byproducts are disabled
  Compatibility:
    - BZ Lead: Fix load error when Space Age is not enabled
    - BZ Tin: Tin is now a byproduct from cupric asteroids if enabled (and otherwise carbonic asteroids)
    - BZ Carbon: Flake graphite is now preferred over coal for carbonic asteroid crushing
    - BZ Carbon: Advanced carbonic asteroid crushing now yields rough diamonds
Version: 0.3.13
Date: 2025-04-24
  Compatibility:
    - Don't modify Nuclear science pack recipe with concrete mix
Version: 0.3.12
Date: 2025-04-24
  Compatibility:
    - When BZ Lead is installed, iron ore is added as byproduct for metallic asteroid crushing
    - When BZ Tin is installed, tin ore is added as byproduct for carbonic asteroid crushing
    - Add compatibility for Science Bottles
Version: 0.3.11
Date: 2025-04-19
  Changes:
    - Make Big crusher a metallurgy recipe and set the crafting time to not 0.5 seconds
    - Update molten glass and concrete mix graphics to match v2.0.44
    - Refined concrete no longer costs Concrete and increase concrete mix cost from 100 to 200
    - Rebalance molten glass cost: 75 sand from 50, yields 250 from 200 (-17%)
Version: 0.3.10
Date: 2025-04-19
  Changes:
    - Un-break technology changes not being applied oops
Version: 0.3.9
Date: 2025-04-19
  Changes:
    - Tweak byproduct amounts from asteroids and only add if enabled
    - Only add glass to space science pack if byproducts are enabled
    - Add CN translation (#5) (thank you to Houraiji-Kyuusyou!)
    - Add big crusher technology icon for other mods to use
    - Allow upgrading burner crusher into electric crusher
Version: 0.3.8
Date: 2025-04-05
  Bugfixes:
    - Allow concrete to be recycled by not modifying recycling recipes to use concrete mix
  Compatibility:
    - Fix crushed coal not being accessible on Gleba start, and fix
Version: 0.3.7
Date: 2025-04-03
  Compatibility:
    - Fix crushed coal not being accessible on Vulcanus and Fulgora start
Version: 0.3.6
Date: 2025-04-01
  Changes:
    - Add 1 Glass to Rail signal and Rail chain signal recipes
    - Properly credit MeteorSwarm for basic crusher icon (modified and kitbashed from base SA but still, thanks!)
    - Reduce cost for plastic and explosives from 3 to 2 crushed coal (from +100% relative cost compared to vanilla to +33%)
Version: 0.3.5
Date: 2025-03-29
  Balancing:
    - Casting glass now takes 2x as long
  Compatibility:
    - Increased crushed tin ore cost for molten tin from 100 to 125 (+25%) so it still ends in 5
Version: 0.3.4
  Compatibility:
    - Typo
    - Slightly better Lignumis compat (let Lignumis handle unlock for burner crusher)
Version: 0.3.3
  Compatibility:
    - Better vulcanus start: burner crusher and stone crushing are now unlocked with steel processing
    - Better fulgora start: burner crusher is now unlocked with automation
Version: 0.3.2
  Bugfixes:
    - Add Iron ore crushing to unlock for Concrete, to resolve softlock when starting on Vulcanus (thanks cackling.fiend!)
    - Fix load error if spoiling is not enabled
Version: 0.3.1
  Locale:
    - Fix missing locale key for casting-glass
Version: 0.3.0
  Minor Features:
    - Add lithium crushing when Scrappy Industry is installed
    - Add recipe for Concrete mix from molten iron
  Balancing:
    - Byproducts from asteroid crushing are affected by productivity again
  Changes:
    - Items that benefit from quality no longer use concrete mix instead of refined concrete
    - Recycler still costs concrete to make Fulgora and Cerys starts possible
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix make_crushing_byproduct not setting ignored_by_productivity to the right amount
    - Fix concrete mix barrels not actually spoiling
Version: 0.2.4
  Changes:
    - Don't leave concrete mix in barrels too long!
  Bugfixes:
    - Revert changes to recipe result order for aesthetic reasons
Version: 0.2.3
  Changes:
    - Increase crushed ore productivity from +25% to +50% for all ores to match iron/copper ore crushing
    - Add CrushingIndustry.make_crushing_byproduct() helper function
    - Rebalanced byproducts from asteroid crushing
    - Byproducts are no longer affected by productivity
  Bugfixes:
    - [HOTFIX] Foundry, recycler, and electric kiln are now crafted with concrete items instead of mix
  Compatibility:
    - Marked Rocky Asteroids as incompatible to simplify obtuse compatibility code.
Version: 0.2.2
  Compatibility:
    - Add support for molten tungsten
Version: 0.2.0
  Major Features:
    - Add concrete mix, a new fluid that replaces water in the recipes for concrete and refined concrete
    - Concrete mix costs water, crushed iron, and sand (making it a good sink for sand byproducts)
    - Concrete mix replaces concrete and refined concrete in other recipes
  Changes:
    - Increase holmium solution cost from 1/2 sand/powder to 2/3 sand/powder
    - Increase electrolyte cost from 1 to 3 sand
  Compatibility:
    - Add compatibility for Rocket-Silo Construction
Version: 0.1.8
  Changes:
    - Crushed smelting recipes are no longer hidden from player crafting unless enabled with a setting
Version: 0.1.7
  Compatibility:
    - Fix compat with Muluna
Version: 0.1.6
  Compatibility:
    - Muluna: Change ingredient for Space crusher 1 from Quality module 2s to QM1s
Version: 0.1.5
  Bugfixes:
    - Basic crushing or hand crafting wasn't added to character crushing
Version: 0.1.4
  Minor Features:
    - Add minor API, to allow public access to the "make_crushing_icons" helper function
  Balancing:
    - Increased weight of big crushers to 100kg, reducing big crushers per rocket from 20 to 10
Version: 0.1.3
  Balancing:
    - Increase Coal crushing recipe time from 1 -> 1.2 seconds (+20%) to match ore crushing recipes
Version: 0.1.2
  Compatibility:
    - Fixed ingredients for Crushed titanium smelting (only available with SA disabled)
Version: 0.1.1
  Balancing:
    - Space crusher crafting speed has been reduced to 1.25
    - Non-space crushers are no longer able to use quality modules when SC changes are enabled
  Bugfixes:
    - Mining burner crushers gave electric crushers instead
    - Molten lead now takes 75 Crushed lead ore (+50%) to parity other ore melting recipes
    - Casting titanium now takes 2x the Crushed titanium ore
    - Burner crushers can now be connected to circuit networks
  Graphics:
    - Update crushing icons to use desaturated asteroid-crushing gears
    - Change Crushed tungsten ore to match Tungsten ores colors slightly better
  Locale:
    - Change how crushed resources are localised for better support across languages
  Changes:
    - Compatibility work has been moved into separate files in prototypes/compat
  Compatibility:
    - Improve compatibility for Muluna (thanks to MeteorSwarm for collaborating on this!)
    - Muluna: Space crusher technology is omitted when Muluna is installed, deferring to its tech changes
    - Muluna: Crusher 2 is renamed to Space crusher 2 and buffed, though is more expensive to craft
    - Lead: Alternative metallic asteroid crushing can now be crafted in assembling machines and advanced crushers
    - Silica: Hide basic crusher from BZ mods if installed
Version: 0.1.0
  Major Features:
    - Initial release