Should an assembly machine 1 be able to create "nutrients from spoilage"? It's currently craftable by hand and assembly machines 2 and 3. And the bio building.

Permitting the assembling machine 1 to craft recipes of the "organic-or-hand-crafting" category is deliberate, to help early automation with basic crops. I'll explicitly document this in the Information page shortly.

Great! Currently that's my bottleneck -- I don't have assembly machine 2, so I have to hand-craft the nutrients from spoilage.

I confused myself. Does the assembler 1 craft nutrients from spoilage? Or not? Maybe I'm reading wrong.
I'd love to craft nutrients in my assembler 1!

It did last time I checked.

I tested yesterday with only this mod and dependencies. Nutrients from spoilage won't craft in Assembly Machine 1!

Double checked Space Age code and either I misremembered or Space Age updated the recipe categories (latter maybe?) - nutrients from spoilage is "organic-or-assembling", which is still provided to the player for hand crafting so I have no idea what the deal is with that. I might chuck an alteration to add this secondary category to the assembling machine 1 into the next update.

In "data-final-fixes" I changed the table-insert recipe type to "organic-or-assembling" and the assembly machine 1 can now do spoilage-to-nutrients50%. I didn't check anything else though.

Looking back, what I last stated wasn't very knowledgeable. Over the last 2 hours, I learned how to use table.insert to.. .. .. .. add two types of crafting categories!

I used both "organic-or-assembling" as well as "organic-or-hand-crafting" to the assembly machines 1.

Thank you, you've indirectly got me to learn one of the most important things in modding (to me, at the moment)! I can change so much now that I know what that command can do!

Introduced to the mod itself in 0.8.1.

Thank you! <3