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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g Better sand/glass usage

2 months ago
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There doesn't appear to be a really reliable mass-sink for sand or glass. Most of the things which use glass aren't crafting in huge qualities (ie like iron/copper/steel plates are) and I've found myself just storing sand in chests then blowing the chests up when it gets full. Maybe landfill or concrete as a sink for consuming excessive sand?

Disabling the "sand & glass" setting doesn't fully get rid of sand while it does get rid of glass

2 months ago

Hiya! Concrete mix already exists which is the current intended sink for sand :) I may also add a landfill recipe that uses sand as well since it can still be an issue, but I'm still undecided on that

S6X
2 months ago

If you add that recipe then it has to be called "sandfill."

2 months ago

I honestly had started on it, but was too ambitious and wanted to make a whole new sandfill tile lol

2 months ago

bumping this thread, as I was also coming to ask for a glass sink. I was thinking that it would be really nice to have a research along the lines of "Glass Insulators" that provided alternate recipes for things that use electric cables/ electricity. Even if it used alot of glass the savings in other ingredients would make it an interesting part of the game.

a month ago

I think either a sand or glass sink would be good to have. Maybe a basic recycler at least that you can get before Fulgora?

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