Additional Patches for VFE Mechanoid Factory buildings. Mainly to automate alloy production. While I tried to stay true to the original smelter recipes, I will not guarantee that all patches are balanced. If someone is wondering about the haygrass in the recipes, for some reasons all inputs of the factories have to be filled in the recipes or the game will throw an error. So I used Hay as dummy-input. (Hay is actually not needed ingame!)

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2329011599&searchtext=vanilla+faction+expanded

<Patch>

<!-- Expanded Materials - Metals & VFE Mechanoids -->

<!-- Ressource Automation -->
<Operation Class="PatchOperationFindMod">
<mods>
<li>Expanded Materials - Metals</li>
<li>Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids</li>
</mods>
<match Class="PatchOperationSequence">
<success>Always</success>
<operations>

<!-- Rename Steel extractor to Metal extractor -->
<li Class="PatchOperationReplace">
<xpath>/Defs/ThingDef [defName = "VFEM_ElectronicsFabricationFactory_SteelExtractor"]/label</xpath>
<value>
<label>Metal extractor</label>
</value>
</li>

<!-- Rename Plasteel forge to Alloy forge -->
<li Class="PatchOperationReplace">
<xpath>/Defs/ThingDef [defName = "VFEM_MasonryAndMetallicsFactory_PlasteelForge"]/label</xpath>
<value>
<label>Alloy forge</label>
</value>
</li>


<!-- Bronze Automation -->
<li Class="PatchOperationAdd">
<xpath>/Defs</xpath>
<value>
<ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
<defName>EMMAutoAlloyBronze</defName>
<building>VFEM_MasonryAndMetallicsFactory_PlasteelForge</building>
<items>
<li>VMEu_Tin</li>
</items>
<secondItems>
<li>VMEu_Copper</li>
</secondItems>
<thirdItems>
<li>Hay</li>
</thirdItems>
<amount>
<li>170</li>
<li>150</li>
<li>0</li>
</amount>
<result>VMEu_Bronze</result>
<yield>160</yield>
<outputLimitControlled>true</outputLimitControlled>
<maxTotalOutput>300</maxTotalOutput>
<useQualityIncreasing>false</useQualityIncreasing>
<singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>0.2</singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>
</ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
</value>
</li>

<!-- Steel Automation -->

<!-- with Coal -->
<li Class="PatchOperationAdd">
<xpath>/Defs</xpath>
<value>
<ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
<defName>EMMAutoAlloySteelwithCoal</defName>
<building>VFEM_MasonryAndMetallicsFactory_PlasteelForge</building>
<items>
<li>VMEu_Iron</li>
</items>
<secondItems>
<li>VMEu_Coal</li>
</secondItems>
<thirdItems>
<li>Hay</li>
</thirdItems>
<amount>
<li>65</li>
<li>30</li>
<li>0</li>
</amount>
<result>Steel</result>
<yield>75</yield>
<outputLimitControlled>true</outputLimitControlled>
<maxTotalOutput>300</maxTotalOutput>
<useQualityIncreasing>false</useQualityIncreasing>
<singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>0.2</singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>
</ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
</value>
</li>

<!-- with Charcoal -->
<li Class="PatchOperationAdd">
<xpath>/Defs</xpath>
<value>
<ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
<defName>EMMAutoAlloySteelwithCharCoal</defName>
<building>VFEM_MasonryAndMetallicsFactory_PlasteelForge</building>
<items>
<li>VMEu_Iron</li>
</items>
<secondItems>
<li>VMEu_Charcoal</li>
</secondItems>
<thirdItems>
<li>Hay</li>
</thirdItems>
<amount>
<li>65</li>
<li>50</li>
<li>0</li>
</amount>
<result>Steel</result>
<yield>75</yield>
<outputLimitControlled>true</outputLimitControlled>
<maxTotalOutput>300</maxTotalOutput>
<useQualityIncreasing>false</useQualityIncreasing>
<singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>0.2</singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>
</ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
</value>
</li>

<!-- StainlessSteel Automation -->
<li Class="PatchOperationAdd">
<xpath>/Defs</xpath>
<value>
<ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
<defName>EMMAutoAlloyStainlessSteel</defName>
<building>VFEM_MasonryAndMetallicsFactory_PlasteelForge</building>
<items>
<li>Steel</li>
</items>
<secondItems>
<li>VMEu_Chromium</li>
</secondItems>
<thirdItems>
<li>VMEu_Tungsten</li>
</thirdItems>
<amount>
<li>70</li>
<li>10</li>
<li>10</li>
</amount>
<result>VMEu_StainlessSteel</result>
<yield>75</yield>
<outputLimitControlled>true</outputLimitControlled>
<maxTotalOutput>300</maxTotalOutput>
<useQualityIncreasing>false</useQualityIncreasing>
<singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>0.2</singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>
</ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
</value>
</li>

<!-- Concrete Automation -->
<li Class="PatchOperationAdd">
<xpath>/Defs</xpath>
<value>
<ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
<defName>EMMAutoAlloyConcrete</defName>
<building>VFEM_MasonryAndMetallicsFactory_PlasteelForge</building>
<items>
<li>VMEu_RockPowder</li>
</items>
<secondItems>
<li>VMEu_Iron</li>
</secondItems>
<thirdItems>
<li>Hay</li>
</thirdItems>
<amount>
<li>75</li>
<li>30</li>
<li>0</li>
</amount>
<result>VMEu_Concrete</result>
<yield>100</yield>
<outputLimitControlled>true</outputLimitControlled>
<maxTotalOutput>300</maxTotalOutput>
<useQualityIncreasing>false</useQualityIncreasing>
<singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>0.1</singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>
</ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
</value>
</li>

<!-- RockPowder Automation -->
<li Class="PatchOperationAdd">
<xpath>/Defs</xpath>
<value>
<ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
<defName>VFEM_MasonryAndMetallicsFactory_MasonrySaw_RockPowder</defName>
<building>VFEM_MasonryAndMetallicsFactory_MasonrySaw</building>
<items>
<li>StoneChunks</li>
</items>
<amount>
<li>1</li>
</amount>
<result>VMEu_RockPowder</result>
<yield>75</yield>
<outputLimitControlled>true</outputLimitControlled>
<maxTotalOutput>300</maxTotalOutput>
<isCategoryRecipe>true</isCategoryRecipe>
<useQualityIncreasing>false</useQualityIncreasing>
<singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>0.1</singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>
</ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
</value>
</li>

<!-- Charcoal Automation -->
<li Class="PatchOperationAdd">
<xpath>/Defs</xpath>
<value>
<ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
<defName>EMMAutoCharCoal</defName>
<building>VFEM_ProvisionsPackagingFactory_ConveyorOven</building>
<items>
<li>WoodLog</li>
</items>
<secondItems>
<li>Hay</li>
</secondItems>
<amount>
<li>150</li>
<li>0</li>
</amount>
<result>VMEu_Charcoal</result>
<yield>150</yield>
<outputLimitControlled>true</outputLimitControlled>
<maxTotalOutput>300</maxTotalOutput>
<useQualityIncreasing>false</useQualityIncreasing>
<singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>0.1</singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>
</ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
</value>
</li>

</operations>
</match>
</Operation>
</Patch>

If you want to automate the whole chain for stainless steel and plasteel, you will need additional extractor recipes. I made one for Tungsten as an example. (You have to balance them yourself)

<Patch>
<!--Tungsten Extraction-->

<Operation Class="PatchOperationFindMod">
<mods>
<li>Expanded Materials - Metals</li>
<li>Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids</li>
</mods>
<match Class="PatchOperationSequence">
<success>Always</success>
<operations>
<li Class="PatchOperationAdd">
<xpath>/Defs</xpath>
<value>
<ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
<defName>VFEM_ElectronicsFabricationFactory_SteelExtractor_ChunksRecipe_Tungsten</defName>
<building>VFEM_ElectronicsFabricationFactory_SteelExtractor</building>
<items>
<li>StoneChunks</li>
</items>
<amount>
<li>1</li>
</amount>
<result>VMEu_Tungsten</result>
<yield>7</yield>
<outputLimitControlled>true</outputLimitControlled>
<maxTotalOutput>300</maxTotalOutput>
<isCategoryRecipe>true</isCategoryRecipe>
<useQualityIncreasing>false</useQualityIncreasing>
<singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>0.1</singleTimeIfNotQualityIncreasing>
</ItemProcessor.CombinationDef>
</value>
</li>
</operations>
</match>
</Operation>
</Patch>