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Ultimate Workflow Patch

>> !! REQUIRES KENSHI 1.0.55 "Experimental" UNTIL THE DEVS PUSH IT TO MAIN BRANCH, SORRY !! <<

The Simple Mod with the Dramatic Name! But can have a large impact on base automation and eliminate more micro.... adds crafting station variants with ON/OFF switches for all that didn't have one!

There are a bunch of crafting stations with zero power draw. That's great and all, but having no power requirement means they also have no ON/OFF switch, meaning you can't manage your squaddies' workflow by simply shuting off a station you want them to ignore - leading to more micro, shuffling their job tasks around or deleting tasks, forgettting you deleted a task and then wondering why you're out of fuel....

Some of the omissions also seem to be a bug in Vanilla, as for example there's an unused "base" Biofuel Distillery that has a power draw but the specific crop-type variants do not.....

I have created NEW versions of each "unpowered" station - in other words, your existing stations will not suddenly either break, vanish, or need power when you install this mod - and I made sure that each new powered version is unlocked the exact same way, using the same research, as their vanilla versions. So if you have the basic versions, then presto, you will instantly have the new versions available after you install.

No import needed.

The new station variants are:

All Biofuel Distilleries
Bread Oven
Both manual Fabric Looms
Tier 1 Grain Silo (which stil upgrades into the Autosilo just like the Vanilla kind)
Plate Beating Station
Item Furnace
Manual Iron and Stone refinery/processor
Tier 1 Well (which still upgrades normally just like the Vanilla kind)

They appear in the same lists, in the same categories, alongside the originals, but are clearly named (Powered) or (Switched) and state in the description that they have an ON/OFF switch.

All of them except Biofuel have a measly -1 power draw - just to make the ON/OFF switch appear. The Biofuel stations are -5 power since it looks like they were meant to all along....

I did NOT add a Small Research Bench variant since I could not for the life of me picture a scenario where this would be useful, but if it turns out it would be, let me know and I'll add it.

>> Bonus Silly Joke Error Correction:

The Biofuel description contains the crack "Choose between electricity or starvation!" Lol, uh, no Chris, electricity and starvation are the same choice here.... corrected the description to read "Choose between darkness or starvation!" because I think that's the joke he was trying to make xD