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TL;DR

Prevent equipment loss if an item with an equipment grid (armors, vehicles) by making it impossible to use them in crafting

What?

Currently, using power armor MK2 in mech armor recipe, recycling anything with an equipment grid will permanently delete the equipment inside of the item, this is true even if you cancel the craft midway through (I've tested it)

A few possible solutions, the best one is the title and TLDR

Solution 1:
Prevent items with equipment in their grid from being used in crafting or recycling
Pros: most straight forward, likely very easy to implement
Cons: could cause an additional calculation for all items due to needing to scan for an item with a grid

Solution 2:
Put all equipment in the excess outputs in the assembler or recycler
Pros: does not delete the equipment, and allows for the automation of it
Cons: may not be possible with the current engine

Solution 3: Exclusively for Mech Armor crafting
Port forward all equipment in the power armor mark 2 into the new mech armor grid
Pros: incredibly intuitive and convenient
Cons: does not affect recycler issue, and may also not be possible with the current engine

When did you last check this? It was changed months ago so it will eject the equipment into the assemblers trash and or drop them on the ground. They don’t get deleted.

ok, to be honest I was assuming that the recycler would do the same thing, given that I tested the assembler about one hour ago in the latest version (2.0.43-3) because to me it makes no sense to have one of these fixed but not the other

EDIT just tested the recycler and I am correct, it does not spit out the equipment (from armors)
EDIT again, I just tried to recycle both a tank and spidertron with equipment, the equipment was still lost

They do not get deleted.

this is what I get for only using one equipment (and getting unlucky) they were hiding underneath the machines... my bad lol, please move this to already implemented or something (or just delete it)