Hello 77Playmaker,

I have found a bug related to Space Age; Tungsten chunk/dust is not working as expected, as there is no/missing recipe for consuming it to create tungsten carbide or tungsten steel (the main 2 products made of tungsten ore). This is working fine for Holmium, as the Holmium ore is processed into dust/chunk and then it can be further processed into holmium solution.

Care to take a look at it?

Thanks!

Hi mate.
Well despite I've added all the requirements for a proper refining process recipes are not implemented yet.
I'm still evaluating the proper amounts.
_77

Out with version 3.2.0 if you wanna check it out. :D

It's there now but ... The recipe is about 1/3 the speed of smelting regular ore into tungsten plate. Wrong values? Normally the dust recipes are faster in the final step.
(Can't find carbide either)

Carbide will be out in another patch. I've been told that the crafting speed of recipes is slow yeah.
Will give a watch.
_77

Ah, I see. Suppose carbide will be normal for now, not like don't have the ore right there anyway. Thanks.
As for the speed... Well I made a quick trip to the editor and I with the refining block I made outputting two green belts of dust, the area needed to smelt that fits roughly 8 such refining blocks. it looks a bit silly on the map (this is all assuming quality-less machines and rare prod2 modules in everything, no beacons).
I know a green belt of tungsten plate is a lot but 400 foundries still seems a bit much, even if the intend is to beacon the stuff

I suppose, its because its tied to energy consumption which is unified for all dusts but tungsten is created in foundry?

Ohh, that's how it makes the recipes?
Yeah makes sense, foundries have a massively higher energy consumption compared to furnaces

yeah, thats what is happening i think, i have next to no experience modding this game (just updated one mod, so i could use it) and from what i gather its reading power consumption and counting the crafting time from that. probably would need a special line of code for tungsten dust

Ok, I've finally finished the exam session.
You can be sure this thing is finally getting fixed.