Any Active Players Around? (Feedback Request)

[jatmn]

Been enjoying Factorio for a few years now.. and got a few 100's of hrs or so in Vanilla + Yuoki.. as well as Yuoki with Bob's, Angel's, K2 and others..

It's kind of bothered me that parts of the mod have been left unbalanced or incomplete (bugged?)

So I have been working on a "Fix's" mod to make some of the adjustments that have bugged me..
(please keep expectations low, I do not consider myself a programmer or graphics artist )
I have also been adding some conditional cross-compatibility for detected mods.. currently just Bob's & Angel's but K2 is also planned later..

Some of the stuff I have been playing with is shown below..
Would love feedback on the changes or ideas you might have!

0.8-SS-Turbine Generator-S

Changes:

• Replaced Requirement "Iron Gear Wheel" with "Reinforced Gear"
• Adjusted Consumption and Max. temperature to better match Vanilla Boilers should now be 3:5 ratio I think for max output?

Reason: Wanted to make them a little more difficult to make.. but because they are kinda an earlyish game item..
and because I could not figure out where they fit into the power production properly due to consumption and max temp vs power output I reworked it.

Small Electric Motor

Changes:

• Reworked the positioning of the output
• Changed size from 2x2 to 2x1

Reason: I am guessing this was meant to be used with the transmission shaft?
However, I always find working with those to be kinda bugged..
It never made sense to me why Hydraulic Pressure Fluid would be transmitted down a shaft vs a Pipe..
There was also a bug with output alignment if you were using Sqeakthru mod so sometimes it wouldn't output when blueprinting.
Also just felt right that it would be a smaller footprint based on the Image of the machine.

Angels Smelting - Pure Iron Pure Copper

If Angel's Smelting mod is detected the following is unlocked...
Changes:

• Added to 1st Tier Recipe for Molten Copper using Pure Copper
• Added to 1st Tier Recipe for Molten Iron using Pure Iron
• Added a 1st Tier Recipe for Molten Steel using Pure Iron (this one is costly and low output, needs a balancing pass)

Reason: Early game Yuoki its good to be using Pure Iron and Pure Copper...
But using Pure's does not make a lot of sense if you get into Ingot smelting in Angel's Smelting mod,
So I wanted to make it viable at least early game to keep producing Pure's

Angels Smelting - Yuoki - Dryer Separator

If Angel's Smelting mod is detected the following is unlocked...
Changes:

• Adjusted Recipe to use a "Frank & Peppe Industiral Smelter"

Reason: While I know the Frank & Peppe is kind of resource-intense to produce (requires a bunch of Techanic Signs)
I felt it made sense to fall back to this machine when playing with Angel's Smelting mod loaded with bobs ore's...
You could be playing up to SEVERAL hours before you unlock 3rd Tier science to be able to produce that Electric Furnace it requires
and there is a few use cases early game to want to be using the Dryer & Separator early early-mid game already.

I have also done a few other adjustments I have not shown above as well for integration with Angel's Refining
Ore Sorting which results in "Slag" I have replaced Yuoki Slag with Angel's Slag item type in all Recipes so they are cross-compatible.
This means Any Yuoki Recipe that Produced OR used Yuoki Slag.. they now produce or use Angel's slag.

The mod is not currently published anywhere at the time of writing this post.
Still working on a few things I consider "bugs" in the Yuoki Mod as well as some balance and recipe adjustments.
But I do plan to publicly publish the mod on Factorio Mods once its in a more impactful state.

Any and all feedback is welcomed!