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Stone Yield Adjustments

Nerfes stone ingot yields.

All blueprints (essentially recipes) that process stone into other materials are nerfed (including modded ones).

Adjustments are applied differently depending on whether the blueprint is used by a survival kit (any kit, including modded ones).

Survival Kit
The survival kit produces the same amount of materials as before, but the process takes 5 times longer. This also means that the energy cost is also increased by the same multiplier.
Reasoning: Using the survival kit early can be tedious, but increasing the time can be mitigated by planning ahead and the energy increase does not really matter much when using one kit. Massing kits to get materials from stone efficiently requires many kits to be built and considerably more power / management. If the player gets to this stage, it is probably easier to just mine a ton (or more likely many tons) of stone.

Other Production Blocks
The non-gravel yield of stone is divided by 10, but the processing speed is 20 times faster. This means that getting materials from stone is a very quick and energy efficient process compared to using survival kits, but requires much more stone.
Reasoning: Make the mining of ores more rewarding compared to just strip mining stone. Mining stone to get materials is still perfectly reasonable if using a dedicated mining base.

The mod does not change blueprints that include input materials other than stone.


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