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Catalytic Sifter - Finally a balanced gravel sifter?

The Catalytic Sifter has two jobs.

* Quickly crush a lot of stone into gravel. Useful with concrete mods.

* Sift (a little bit of) ore from (a lot of) gravel.

Here's the new concept, though:

You need a bit of ore to tell the sifter what to look for. So, you'll have to at least have found some of the mineral you want to sift - no hiding in the base and churning monster amount of gravel.

Basically, 1 gravel + 0.00...1 ore => 0.5 gravel + 0.00...3 ore. As usual, density depends on material, gravel contains a lot more iron than platinum, for example.

And yes, this does mean that you'll have to get from a planet to an asteroid in order to build ion thrusters the first time ;)

Hopefully, this provides a solution for a balanced sifter.


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