MOD[0.11.X]- Epic Pace: Marathon Balance+ bigger furnaces

[Syriusz]

Hello!
I created mod that changes balances of game like Marathon, but I also introduce new furnaces and assemblers- they are bigger, better and require a lot of resources. It needs balance and I have more ideas to improve but for now, it is playable.

Furnaces and assemblers

There are new furnaces-
-size M (medium)- 3x3, speed=3
-size L (large)- 5x5, speed=10
-size B (blast furnace)- 7x7, speed=25 , I intend to change its mechanic later (mostly pollution handling)
New furnaces have 2 insert slots (I intended to make alloys, but it's does not work , and I left it that way, maybe one day it will work...) and 2 fuel slots

1st hour of marathon is soo painful, just waiting and crafting. So I made pneumatic assembly machine. It does not work as I wanted, I cannot force them to use liquid fuel (compressed air), so now it uses recipes with compressed air but also need 1 piece of fuel (it has 0.000000001W so it will last long), its annoying, but I cannot think about better solution. Its also bigger (5x5) and have speed of 1 so it will have usage in later game, but it can only produce simplest items- gear, cable and green circuit.

There is problem similar to trains- inserters are slow when they unload something from big buildings, so I wonder if I could do that furnaces could insert items on ground as miners? it does not seem to work, but maybe there are some tricks?

Other balance changes

I changed smelting, so now to smelt iron plate (copper plate) you have to:
-smelt ore to pig iron (copper ingot)
-smelt it second time to make plates (because first you make clean metal and then you cast it to plates)

To make steel you no longer smelt it twice- its not how it works in real life. It should be mechanically formed (English definition seems to be wider though), but changing furnace to assembler would not be good idea. Instead I assumed that good steel= quenched steel, and to make steel you have to:
- take pig iron and quench it in assembler with water and it will make martensite (I assume that pig iron is still hot, no matter how long it waited in your pocket )
-temper martensite in furnace to get steel

To make good furnaces (and other items later) you will need creep resistant steel (its used in places with high temperatures). It should be made from iron and chromium or nickel, but i used copper instead, because I don't want to introduce new resources jet. That steel is made in furnace from creep resistant ore (5 iron plates + 1 copper plate).

Important! You have to unzip mod before use- don't know why, but its compressed as it should but it gives some strange bugs...
Tell me how you feel about it- if its too complicated, or new furnaces are OP or too expensive- I need to know. (but it is intended to be hard)
I used marathon recipe configuration (changed it little) i hope it's OK for now, and I will make my own latter.

[Degraine]

If you're having issues with the zipped version of your mod, make sure the compression method is Deflate, rather than Deflate64, LZMA, Bzip2 or whatever else (I'm just pulling from the 7zip list here).

[Syriusz]

If you're having issues with the zipped version of your mod, make sure the compression method is Deflate, rather than Deflate64, LZMA, Bzip2 or whatever else (I'm just pulling from the 7zip list here).

I did it with 7-zip set to deflate (when used deflate64 there was different error), even without compression.

[Klonan]

So I made pneumatic assembly machine. It does not work as I wanted, I cannot force them to use liquid fuel (compressed air), so now it uses recipes with compressed air but also need 1 piece of fuel (it has 0.000000001W so it will last long), its annoying, but I cannot think about better solution.

I had this thought a while ago about steam powered machines...

Here how I was going to implements it:

--Place down assembly machine that requires electricity
--Spawn an electric pole on its position
--Spawn a custom steam engine on its position with the pipe inputs

Then what you do, have the pipe input to the custom steam engine produce the power to run the assembly machine
This has 2 drawbacks:

-- the assembly machine can run off the power grid (doesn't require the steam input)
-- The steam power can power other things in the factory

Also since you will still need inserters (which need power) you will need electric poles nearby, unless you also power them with the steam/air fluid power