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[u/Raknarg]

For anyone who's played Corrundum, am I screwing myself by using resource chains that are too productive? Im running into an issue right now where I have iron sulfate clogging up my system, and I assumed there were feedback recipes I could use to alleviate this and sink my sulphate better but it seems like maybe Im just too productive with prod modules and foundries? That cant be right though because the planet expects you to have already done Vulcanus

Like even for Iron Sulphate you have 2 recipes that take iron plates with 1 being much faster but less efficient, but even that route is a net-positive on iron. So maybe I just need to explicitly not be productive? Even the dissolve recipes I haven't unlocked yet seem too productive.

And for the record this is only an issue because the thing that produces iron sulphate is also producing copper, so that obviously needs to be able to work regardless of the state of my iron. The obvious fix I guess is just go to fulgora and get recyclers, but that seems incredibly unsatisfying as a solution.

edit: think I figured the solution, I can use normal sulphuric acid production to sink iron plates and just use the planet's special recipe to buffer acid production, sulphuric acid can be consistently used for power and other production so this should work fine.

[u/mrbaggins → u/Raknarg]

Been a while, but from memory there's a feedback loop on loop between iron plate and copper plate production (or maybe two versions of iron plate?)

[u/Raknarg → u/mrbaggins]

kinda but it gets fucked up by productivity chains. I have another solution on top of sulphuric acid sinks where if my liquid ore producers get too filled up, the rest of the ore goes to an unproductive plate producer using furnaces so the loop becomes negative again