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I've been building some ships to upcycle asteroid chunks to higher quality, and I've noticed that sometimes, the crushers will not output a new chunk after finishing processing. It seems to happen a lot, while I've been watching I've seen one crusher eat 3 epic quality asteroids in a row and output nothing, I'm not sure if it has been happening on my other ships as I have not used asteroid reprocessing much up till now. I've built three of these ships, and it happens on all of them. It may happen more when reprocessing higher-quality asteroids, but it's hard to tell. Currently my upcycling builds aren't really working at all as I'm losing so many of the high quality asteroids.

Not a bug. This recipe has 20% of outputting nothing.

Ahh, so the chances listed here are each independent: (So there's a 1.6% chance of getting 1 of each asteroid (i.e. 40%×20%×20%))

They are independent, so technically there is 0.6x0.8x0.8 = 38.4% chance of getting nothing.

Yeah, I was thinking about it more the next day and realised that I probably misunderstood how the output was supposed to work. That nearly 40% chance of nothing coming out would explain why it feels like I'm losing so much as well. Thanks for the quick response anyway.