Fluid recycler

Stranded on an abandoned island with nothing but batteries, the engineers ask themselves how they could possibly get the sulfuric acid needed to finish their rocket. One of them has an epiphany; they take batteries and start squeezing.

Content

Adds a fluid recycler as equivalent to Fulgoras solid recycler. Items with fluid ingredients can be recycler back into their fluid ingredients at 25% efficiency.

Features

This mod creates a fluid recycling recipe for every item that can be crafted with fluid and adds it to the fluid recycler. Just like the regular recylcer, the fluid recycler automatically picks a recipe when any item is inserted. Items that can't be recycled into fluids are never inserted.

The fluid recycler can be unlocked on Fulgora.

Fun recipes include things like squeezing water out of explosives, squeezing acid out of processing units and batteries, squeezing ammonia out of ice platform as well as many more dynamically generated recipes!

Balance

Mod features a balanced and an unbalanced mode. By default, it is set to balanced

In balanced mode, you'll have access to a handful of vanilla squeezing recipes as well as curated mod compat recipes that do not break the base game or any mods.

In unbalanced mode: squeeze pipes back into molten iron, squeeze items back into their modded input fluids, transmute materials by using the latest recipes. Great fun but not very balanced.

Additional custom recipes

• A bulk recipe to squeeze ice into water.
• A recipe to squeeze asteroid chunks straight into water, molten iron and crude oil respectively.

Mod compat

Several balance patches, made in cooperation with other mod authors:

Can squeeze coconuts on Pelagos to get more coconut oil but forgo the other contents.

Squeeze sand into stone when playing with Moshine, Maraxsis, Crushing Industry or any other mod that adds sand.

Can be made in Outer Rims manufactory.

Plasma industries bulk recipes are excluded so as not to give the player plasma from recycling items made in bulk recipes.

More mod compat coming!

API

Other mods can add their recipes to the fluid recycler in two different ways:

• Give your recipe the category or additonal_categories "fluid-recycling".

• Set a recipe with fluid input to auto_liquid_recycling = true, this can be done without checking if fluid recycler is enabled. Your recycling recipe will be automatically generated and named. This needs to be done before data-final-fixes.

Licensing

Code is MIT. The graphics are NOT.

This mod uses the chemical stager by the fantastic artist Hurricane. Lightly recoloured and edited by me.

Coming up next

Github, discord, more pictures, custom locales.

Special thanks to anyone in Rocs discord for their feedback and help!