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Making Plasma Arc Furnace more useful #3357

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@StaffiX StaffiX commented Oct 11, 2024

// This is drafted until the 2.7 release
An attempt at making people consider the plasma arc furnace

Issue:

  • Out of the 5 usually used recipes, 2 of them are plasma arc furnace only.
  • Out of the 3 remaining recipes, only 2 of them have a plasma arc variant.
  • Those two recipes have no difference between plasma arc and regular arc furnace, so players have no reason to switch those recipes, and use the more expensive plasmas instead of just oxygen.
  • On top of that, it can't even make glass in plasma mode.

This PR makes some changes to arc furnace:

  • Reduce the number of parallels in regular arc furnace mode.
    Having 336 parallels in a max sized luv arc furnace is ridiculous, now regular mode gets VOLTAGE*WIDTH parallels instead of 8*VOLTAGE*WIDTH, but plasma arc keeps old parallel values.

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(LuV tiered Arc Furnace with 7 width in regular vs plasma mode)

  • Nitrogen plasma makes recipes 4 times faster, argon plasma makes it 64 times faster.
    Nitrogen plasma is made in a fusion mk2 reactor, available at late zpm, argon plasma has to be made in the Forge of the Gods, making it an UIV tiered upgrade.
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  • Additionally recycling recipes in plasma arc is removed.
    By the time people get there, players stop recycling machines due to multiblocks replacing singleblocks, and recycling in regular arc is still possible in case some players still want.
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Still needs to be worked on:

  • when looking at recipes for annealed iron or wrought iron, argon plasma doesn't display time
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Related: GTNewHorizons/NewHorizonsCoreMod#1032

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IncandescenceSy commented Oct 11, 2024

I've been meaning to do something like this for a while, but never got around to it, so I'm glad someone did
I would possibly consider adding an inferior mk1 fusion recipe for Nitrogen Plasma, as mk2 feels a bit late to unlock this; perhaps 16L Lithium + 16L Beryllium -> 100L in 2 seconds at IV? Or just move the existing recipe to mk1, I doubt it would impact balance
I probably would have removed the Argon Plasma recipes, but it is kind of funny to keep them, and with recycling removed it's not a significant amount of recipe bloat anyway

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