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TL;DR

Use the crusher on land to grind down stone, concrete and refined concrete into stone (and ore, optionally).

What?

Use the crusher on land to crush stone bricks into stone. This can be extended to concrete and refined concrete, but the result would need to automatically crush down to stone to make it realistic (because grinding things down is a destructive process) and not overlap with recycler use. Basically, it would result in just stone (and ore, optionally). There would be a loss in quantity compared to inputs, similar to the recycler.

I saw optional for iron ore because it may impact balance.

Why?

Realism, adds a use for stone bricks and concrete, provides a new avenue to get stone on fulgora other than just directly from scrap, and makes the recycling process more interesting by having to use more than just the recycler.