I like to tinker and I was thinking about bringing the game back to bare bones as far as crafting was concerned (no craftables), so I could personalize a tech tree. Sometimes I find modding more fun than playing. While I am generally good at doing the easy stuff like writing new objects, etc, I don'...

If I wanted to completely remove the stone furnace from the game through a mod how would I go about doing that? Is it possible?

Why is stone so rare? It seems you're tripping over copper, iron and coal every time you take two steps but stone (the most common material known to man?) is super rare?