without this mod, tungsten carbide recycles to 25% tungsten carbide. with, 9.4% scrap, which is worth 6.3% tungsten carbide. you get 2 layers of quality modules in exchange, but it's not worth it. better if it recycles to 25% scrap or just 25% tungsten carbide
I've buffed this to be 25% scrap. This change is by design to be thematic. While it's still a nerf from vanilla, Scrappy Industry is already largely resource-positive as-is, so I don't mind tuning in the opposite way here.
thank you. i was thinking about this and realized i am not sure how to balance this the best. i would like scrappy to be only slightly resource-positive, and i am using the setting byproduct-scale: 0.5 toward this, but it's difficult to tell what value of that setting would make it balanced