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Dragon Industries - Expanded Ore Processing
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Mod category: Block, Production
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13 Apr, 2019 @ 10:05pm
25 Jul, 2021 @ 2:37pm
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Dragon Industries - Expanded Ore Processing

Description
Adds specialized and often more in-depth processing for a few ore types, rewarded with higher yield and/or throughput.

Contains derivatives (updated, rebalanced, expanded, and otherwise tweaked) of Hexicube's Stone Crusher and Uranium Centrifuge mods, with his permission as he has largely lost interest in SpaceEngineers modding, and has no immediate plans to maintain or update those mods. Credit to him for the base concept and the original models, and once again a huge thanks for his generosity in allowing me to help keep those mods alive and build on their concepts.

Hex's originals:
Uranium Centrifuge: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=311875582
Stone Crusher: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=309015149


These blocks have both construction states and LODs, and are fully paintable.


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Feature List:

* Blast Furnace - Large Block Only; High-throughput (3.6x) but slightly reduced yield (80%) for Iron, Silicon, Nickel, and Cobalt ores; similar to the old Arc Furnace; Requires a thruster component (for high operating temperatures) and is thus not available early game

* Platinum Extractor - Large Block Only; A very large, expensive, and lategame processing machine, designed to extract as much Platinum as possible from its ore, giving doubled yield

* Stone Crusher - Large Block Only; Extremely fast Stone processing, yielding large quantities of gravel and traces of iron and silicon; primarily intended for gravel acquisition, not a replacement of normal stone->metal processing; is especially useful with concrete mods

* Uranium Centrifuge - Large and Small Block; Slow (50% speed) but more efficient Uranium ore processing (160% yield); Small block version is slower and less power-efficient but equally resource-efficient


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Planned Features:
* Uranium Gasification - an additional step to Uranium processing, mixing its ore with Ice to make Uranium gas, which can also be sent into the centrifuges; this doubles yield on top of the base 160%




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A suggested concrete mod, originally recommended by Hex with Stone Crusher:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=303959338
68 Comments
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tomyironmane 24 Aug, 2024 @ 9:22am 
Gasification has either not been properly implemented or is not sufficiently explained for how it is supposed to work... either way, I could not get it to work and cannot tell anyone what its yield is. that 10kg of ore was gone forever. As it stands, the centrifuges, with maximum yield upgrades applied, take 10kg of uranium ore and produces 0.19kg uranium. A standard refinery with maximum yield upgrades produces 0.20kg of uranium from the same amount of ore. Altogether a disappointing showing for a mod that I used to consider to be a "must have." I cannot recommend it at this time.

There's honestly a bunch of small, niggling modelling things that probably ought to be addressed, but I'm not gonna really harp on. The models are showing their age and could use a face-lift, the borrowed models ought to be made different from existing blocks... or at the very least the Uranium Tank needs to be re-skinned to not say "oxygen" ...
Oblivion2012 6 Sep, 2023 @ 7:30pm 
im gonna guess its not fully implemented yet
Oblivion2012 6 Sep, 2023 @ 6:02pm 
Random question how is the uranium gas treated? As in inventory handling i have my refineries behind a convener sorter blocking uranium ore and i build my centrifuges there with the thought only the gas would go through but it would seem the sorter is preventing that too? im not seeing uranium ingot for in the centrifuge...
Peekofwar 25 Apr, 2023 @ 12:32pm 
"Also, I increased the efficiency yield to outcompete the refinery, even when fully upgraded."
Any ETA as to when you plan to update the mod with that? Or is that an existing feature?
Peekofwar 23 Apr, 2023 @ 5:05pm 
Oh, that planned Uranium Gasification could put my excess ice to use. I have like way too much ice for some reason. I've since turned off my moisture vaporizers, but I'm still getting ice from gravel sifting.
Peekofwar 23 Apr, 2023 @ 5:03pm 
Oh...? A compelling upgrade...?
Reika  [author] 23 Apr, 2023 @ 1:56pm 
I have good news for you. First, I checked and these do keep the "Hex_" prefix. Also, I increased the efficiency yield to outcompete the refinery, even when fully upgraded.
Peekofwar 19 Apr, 2023 @ 6:45pm 
I think I'm getting it from the Gravel Sifter mod.
Reika  [author] 19 Apr, 2023 @ 1:46pm 
I seem to remember the old IDs having "Hex" in the name, so it is highly unlikely they are the same as before.

Also, where are you getting uranium from stone? That is not a thing in vanilla or this mod, and another mod changing refinery recipes might cause a conflict depending on how they do it.
Peekofwar 19 Apr, 2023 @ 1:41pm 
I have another question though: Does this use the same block IDs as the original mods, meaning I can just drop this in as a replacement, or would I have to deconstruct my old machines before switching mods?