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Complex Crafting & Research Rethought

A LOT of the vanilla Research Tree and Buildings have been redone, reworked, or replaced.

This mod is an attempt to restructure the Technology Progression of Kenshi, as I find some areas to be inconsistent, leading to weird jumps back and forth in equivalent real-world technology levels. As such, due to the close relation between Research, Crafting, and Buildings, I have opted to change a lot of things in one package.
This includes:

• New, and modified items
  
• New crafting recipes
  
• New crafting benches
  
• Significantly altered building recipes

Many Research options have been removed, consolidated into one item, or entirely new ones have taken their place. The most notable is that all Research is now prefixed by a [I-VI] to show which Tech level it belongs to.
Main features:

• Metallurgy - Unlock the ability to craft new metals up to Tech 4.
  
• Refinery - Tied to Metallurgy, a single consolidated building capable of meeting all your metal crafting needs.
  
• Weapons - Follows the Metallurgy research line to unlock new tiers of crafting with higher grade materials.
  
• Crossbows - Available at Tech 1, with tiered progression to Tech 3.
  
• New Training Devices - Teach your recruits how to use a crossbow or punch people.
  
• Various Upgrades - Some bonus research has been sprinkled in to give some buildings more progression, increasing power consumption and/or productivity with new materials or technology.
  
• The Peeler - It can be researched of your own depravity.

New:

• Copper Plates - in case you ever thought it was weird that Electronic Components were constructed from raw, unprocessed Copper Ore.
  
• Carbon - technically already in the game files, brought back to make Steel and Spring Steel, and burn as an early fuel source!

Renamed:

• CPU Unit -> CPU Core - the U already stands for Unit, I don't like it.
  
• Copper Alloy Plate -> Advanced Alloy Plate - considering vanilla spring steel was also a copper alloy, (very wrong) I don't know why this even had the name in the first place.

Craftable:

• Books - Can be made later in the tech levels.
  
• Capacitors - Early electronics
  
• Carbon - Required to make Steel and Spring Steel
  
• CPU Cores - Required for crafting advanced building(s)
  
• Hacksaw
  
• Parchment - Can be made into books
  
• Power Core - Required for crafting advanced building(s)
  
• Tools
  
• Wrench

Now follow a material-based grade unlocked through research.

• Iron Ore = Unknown: Rusted Junk and Rusted Blade
  
• Iron Plate = Ancient: Mid-Grade Salvage, Old Refitted Blade, Refitted Blade
  
• Steel Bars = Catun Scrapmaster: Catun No.1-3
  
• Spring Steel = Skeleton Smiths: Mk1-3
  
• Advanced Alloy = Edgewalkers: Type 1-3
  
• Cross: Meitou is able to be forged at Tech 6.

A lot of building recipes have been made significantly more complex.
Why? Internal logic and consistency help my immersion. Generator Cores exist in the game and their description and name implies they are important for generators, yet they are not used. This is no longer the case.
Various new items have been added to building recipes, such as Motors, Generator Cores, Copper Plates, CPU Cores, to name a few.

This change, I imagine, also makes your base more valuable to you, as the time and material commitment to building it has increased. The total quantity of materials has in most cases gone down over the vanilla counterparts, but complexity has increased. If you're a fan of logistics style games, (Factorio, Satisfactory, etc) maybe this will help scratch that itch too.

I could be wrong though, feel free to say that is sucks in the comments lol