Info

Yet another foundry casting extension mod, because I didn't like the options that were available on the mod portal; either they changed too much, too little, or just not what I wanted.

The general ethos is that the new casting recipes should require only iron plate, iron gears, iron sticks, steel plate, pipe, copper plate, and copper cable; AKA the base direct casting recipes.

Features

Adds the following new casting recipes:

• Yellow/Red/Blue belt (blue belt still requires lubricant)
• Yellow/Red/Blue underground belt (blue underground belt still requires lubricant)
• Iron/Steel chest (ignores wood requirement if added to the base recipe by another mod, such as Iron Chest Requires Wood Chest or Upgrade Requires Previous Tier)
• Storage tank
• Pump/Offshore Pump
• Yellow Engine
• Yellow/Red Ammo (configurable by setting)
• Medium/Large Power Pole (configurable by setting)

Modifies the following pre-existing recipes only when the cheaper casting setting is enabled:

• Iron Stick Casting - Due to the 1:1 molten iron-iron stick conversion ratio, it was more efficient to cast the iron plate and then craft the iron sticks in assembler with any amount of productivity, now more efficient to cast the sticks directly.
• Underground Pipe Casting - This was the original starting point of this mod, because I didn't like the idea of casting into pipe and then casting again into underground pipe, when it should be feasibly possible to cast the underground pipe directly

Settings

• Cheaper Casting Recipes - Enabled by default, reduces the required molten iron amount by 50%, in order to make up for the lost productivity when casting from molten iron directly. When disabled, most recipes use the exact amount of required iron/steel based on their original conversion ratio, but succumb to the same issue that plagues the iron stick casting recipe in vanilla (less efficient to cast directly)
• Ammo Casting - Enabled by default, adds yellow and red ammo casting recipes
• Power Pole Casting - Enabled by default, adds medium and big power pole casting recipes

Mod Compatibility

• EST: Tiny Storage Tanks, both inline and four-way storage tanks
• Storage Tank Mk2, bigger tank
• Pelagos: Disables the engine casting recipe added by this mod, in favor of the Pelagos engine casting recipe (which is unlocked much later in the tech tree, requiring the completion of Gleba for Pelagos science in addition to Vulcanus and purple science)

TODO

• Additional mod compatibility (looking at Storage Tank mk2 and Tiny Storage Tank), maybe AAI Industry