Hey, really fun mod.
I am very confused on the recipe replacement on the crushed inputs, especially crushed coal. I would expect this mod would replace 1 coal -> 1.5 crushed coal (based on the crushing returns without productivity).

Weird ratios:
Coal liquefaction: 10 coal -> 25 crush (2.5 ratio)
Plastic: 1 coal -> 3 crush (3 ratio)
Explosive: 1 Coal -> 3 crush (3 ratio)
Carbon: 2 Coal -> 4 crush (2 ratio)
grenade: 10 coal -> 10 crush (1 ratio)
molten iron/copper, it takes 75 crush instead of 50 ore, almost making the effective return without crushing moot
Tungsten plate: 4 tungsten ore -> 10 crush (ratio 2.5, The big crusher at this point makes it not as bad)
Holmium solution: 1 stone, 2 holmium ore -> 2 sand, 3 holmium powder (ratio of 2 and 1.5)

could you help me understand your balancing logic here?

Hiya! Yeah the ratios are pushed into the 2-3 range for balance with the big electric crusher. Since the 1:1.5 recipe ratio is compounded with the +50% productivity, so even without prod modules that's effectively a 1:2.25 ratio.

The grenade is an outlier as it's the only recipe where crushed coal is an option, so I wanted the crushed variant to be an objective upgrade.

That said I may reduce the ratio for plastic and explosives back down to 2, so that it's a net loss pre-big crusher but a net gain post-BC.

Thank you for asking!

Thank you for answering!

Right now I am experimenting in the early game and I am burning through coal way faster than normal. I agree with the Big crusher and prod modules it balances out, but I am a good ways away from that.

That's a great data point to hear, I'll definitely reduce the recipes towards the 1.5-2 range. Coal liquefaction and tungsten will remain as they're locked behind Vulcanus when you already have the big crusher, but I'll reduce the ratio for plastic and explosives.

Balance updated in 0.3.6!