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Smelt Trash

Allows the player to smelt bags of trash from Vanilla Recycling Expanded into steel at campfires and smelters at a 1-1 ratio in sets of five. Otherwise, trash bags just accumulate until you unlock Advanced Recycling, and even then, the only use for the item is compaction into trashbricks, which are just barely above useless as a resource. This gives a very small and slow supply of steel, which is always in short supply anyways.

Plays especially well with Filth Creates Trash: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3182399010

These additions are intended to improve compatibility and the overall gameplay of Vanilla Recycling Expanded.

COMPATIBILITY

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2012735237
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3225843229

If Fertile Fields (by Rainbeau Flambe and Jamaican Castle, or for 1.5, Greysuki) is installed, also adds two recipes to process five Reclaimed Biopacks into one unit of fertilizer directly. I really dislike the implementation of Biopacks, and how unclear it is that they're decaying correctly or the individual progress on any tile you're attempting to fertilize. And I already had Fertile Fields installed, which does this so much better, so it was an easy patch to make. One unit of fertilizer allows conversion of a soil tile into fertile soil, so the economy remains unchanged, except that it's now much easier to understand and engage with.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2553700067

If Medieval Overhaul is installed, trash bags will return iron ore when smelted, instead of steel ingots. I prefer playing with this mod in general and I love how it extends the processing chains, so I chose to switch them to ore instead of iron ingots. Besides, it makes more sense that you're burning any metal you can find into slag, and you need to purify that back into usable ingots first.

Confirmed to be 1.5 compatible by -=GoW=-Dennis, and 1.6 compatible by Kilo, tags updated to match (as soon as I remember how)

TO-DO (Speculative)

Add an effect to smelting trash which creates a small cloud of tox gas, just as if you'd burned five bags of trash normally. Because you are still burning the trash, at the end of the day. This would require a little more planning on the part of the player, since burning the trash indoors would quickly fill a room with tox gas. Either the player would need to make a dedicated burn pit outside and rotate pawns through trash burning duty, or give them gas masks. However, it seems that actually implementing this would require programming knowledge that's still way above my head.

MAYBE add a bulk trash burning recipe? But the current implementation (5-5) is already actually a bulk recipe. I originally created this mod with 1-1 as the recipe, but found it was just painfully slow. I'm pretty happy with 5-5 currently, and I feel like it's pretty easy to keep up with trash accumulation as-is.

CREDITS

Sarg Bjornson, Oskar Potocki, xrushha - Vanilla Recycling Expanded (and the icon for this mod, which is just the trash bag item .png)

Jamaican Castle, Rainbeau Flambe, Greysuki - Fertile Fields

SirLalaPyon and too many other contributors to easily list - Medieval Overhaul