I've had a lot of fun with this mod so far and am currently working on maxing the productivity bonuses for the planet specific buildings, but am running into a constant bottleneck with water. Machine speed would be enough to process the needed water, but because of the fluid flow limits in and out of machines they simply cannot input or output enough steam for the steam condensation recipe to keep up.

Would it be possible to add an alternate recipe for water that is perhaps less efficient in terms of raw ingredients but doesn't use the 1000:90 fluid ratio to produce the that steam condensation does? The water requirements for a lot of the recipes are quite high and under ideal circumstances a chemical plant can only produce ~720 water per second because of the fluid flow limitation.

My workaround for this issue is to have one of the production platforms constantly produce water and store excess in barrels, but even while doing that, my designs are constantly constrained by water production and unlike nearly every other part of the production chain utilizing beacons, speed modules, and quality hits this hard cap very quickly.

As for a specific idea - maybe there could be a "supercooled acid neutralization recipe" using a cryogenic plant that converts sulfuric acid and calcite directly into water?

Anyways, I'll just say again that I've really enjoyed this mod. The challenges on Linox are very unique and it was my first time playing with the recursive blueprints mod and thanks to the starter set up, I was able to (mostly) wrap my head around how it works.

Hello, and I sincerely apologize for the delayed response.

I am already aware of this issue. However, due to Linox’s nature, it is not easy to scale facilities to a very large size, and that level of mass production is generally not required, so as far as I know it has not been a major problem for most players.

For now, I only recently returned to Factorio, so I think I need to review the issue again to fully understand it... I’m sorry that I can’t be of more help at the moment.

Hey, no sweat!

Linox is loads of fun to play as is. When I wrote this post I had the mindset of, "If there is 1 thing I could change about Linox, what would it be?" and this is what I came up with.

I don't mind there being a bottleneck, and I don't even mind the bottleneck being water, but it just feels a bit bad when the bottleneck is caused by an engine limitation like fluid flow rate and not something like consumption or production rates in the machines.

Again, I want to reiterate that I had a lot of fun with the mod as is!