Repurpose the waste from the imprecise assembly of machines for new materials. No process is ever truly perfect.
Mods introducing new content into the game.
New Ores and resources as well as machines.
Furnaces, assembling machines, production chains.
So with all this new scrap, can we smelt it back to resources?
Yep! A couple pieces of scrap can be smelted back into a plate. And for circuit scrap, you can craft them back into electronic or advanced circuits along with a few extra ingredients.