I like the idea of this mod, but the recipes are far to weak compared to what we have in base space age, making large scale production on Gleba even less worth it than normal.

While the new recipes to create iron plates and copper plates are okay, the ones for steel and circuits are so weak as to be unusable. It is out-competed by the regular plate recipes, which is already worse than the midgame option of refineries in the base game (those give a cumulative 2.25 plates per ore and even more for gears, wire and steel, in exchange for a tiny bit of calcite).

One bioflux converts to 5 bacteria i a biochamber (after consuming one) which means that both of them essentially take 7 bacteria. With that, after converting bacteria to iron plates (10.5 from base productivity) i could make 2.1 steel in a regular furnace, but the direct recipe only gives 1 (1.5 with base productivity), meaning it is worse even with 4 tier 3 prod modules. Comparing it to refineries it becomes laughable. Circuits are just as bad.

I don't expect the recipes to be better than a factory using refineries and electromagnetic plants, but they should be close with all the processing you need to get bioflux in the first place. At the very least it needs to be as good as just making plates, or else you don't even save processing time by using them.

Depending on what you would want to do with the mod, I would suggest two alternatives:

1: Simply buff the steel and circuit recipes to be a bit more efficient than the base ones. Doubling the output would likely be fine. This makes local production of supplies a bit more reasonable on Gleba, but it will never compete with mid to late-game builds on any of the other planets.

2: Move the steel and circuit recipes to a tech requiring bio science, perhaps with something else as well, LDS perhaps? With this, it might be reasonable to make them a bit more competitive with late-game builds.