Three new research paths for alternate production: Alchemy, Mixed Beakers, and Interchangeable Parts. Each can be enabled or disabled in settings.

Alchemy: Research path that enables recipes to change some resources into others. For example, take iron ore, add water and time, and change it into copper ore. Change Lubricant into Sulfuric Acid, or vice versa. Change Water into Oil. Does this make things easier? Maybe. But it also makes things more fun. Use it as a stop gap when your oil is running low but you're in the middle of another project.

Mixed Beakers: Tired of looking at a line of Red and Green beakers and that Blue science is churning out so slowly? Use the overstock of previous sciences to turn Red and Green into Blue and more. Not intended to skip required technologies. For example, if you're expected to be drilling for oil to make the next science, oil will be an ingredient with the Red and Green beakers. Just intended to make use of a surplus of older sciences.

Interchangeable Parts: Unlocks recipes for a few simpler pieces of production. For example, make an engine with just iron plates, rather than requiring pipes and iron gear wheels. It makes a few items simpler, but does not decrease the total base resources required. Not expansive.

Also provides a few items on startup to, hopefully, help you skip the burner and hand-crafting stage.