This is an overhaul mod and I'm kind of abusing the game engine in some parts, and here's where I found breakage:
If a recipe produces fractional amounts of fluid, that's fine. It's all good, the game handles it just fine. I can have a recipe produce 1.66666 fluid for a 1-second craft and it will perfectly produce 100 per minute. But there's a certain point where very small numbers just round down to zero, and this is a problem.
In the example of rescaling water, instead of an offshore pump producing 1200 water per second, mine produces... 2. When I then went to feed this water into a boiler, I set the values such that it would consume 0.75 water per second to produce the same amount of steam. This was when I discovered that the modded boiler would happily consume the 0.75 water, but would output no steam at all.
More recently I've discovered that this applies to assembling machines as well. They will happily consume fractional amounts of fluid - I even tested it with a recipe that consumes 0.0125 water per craft, and it does so just fine. But if I have a product with a very low value then it just rounds that down to zero. After a bit more testing, this happens if the product amount is <= 0.05. Interesting that 0.05 itself exhibits the problem...
Steps to reproduce: mod in a recipe with the following:
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ingredients = {{type="fluid", name="water", amount=0.05}},
energy_required = 0.1,
results = {{type="fluid", name="crude-oil", amount=0.05}}
