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X - Improved Cement Press

The mod increases the efficiency of the cement press from "Vanilla Factions Expanded - Classical". It now processes 4 stone rubble at a time and produces 300 concrete blocks (instead of 1 rubble and 75 blocks respectively).

What is cement press and why fix it?
The "Vanilla Factions Expanded - Classical" mod adds a facility that allows you to produce concrete blocks - cement press. According to the description, it is "A very strong, open stone basin meant to cure and shape a mixture of clay, sand, and powdered stone known as cement into blocks". Just put one stone boulder in it and after a while you will be able to extract a whole stack (75 pieces) of concrete blocks from it.
It seems very advantageous - you don't waste time cutting stone, plus the efficiency of using the rubble is almost 4 times higher! But there's a problem. "Some time" is 5 days. You need 150 blocks to build a cement press. It's not hard to imagine how this works in practice. Spoiler. It doesn't work. No rational player would use it. There's no point. It's easier to chop up regular stone blocks and build everything out of them. I felt bad for such a good (by design) thing, so I decided to fix the situation a bit.
My first thought was to speed up the process of making concrete blocks several times. But... The thing is, concrete takes a really long time to set. A whole month. In the realities of the game, it's exactly 5 days. So the timeframe is indeed realistic.
So I decided to increase the capacity of the cement press. After all, it is a large structure, it covers an area of 9 squares (3 by 3).. And I believe it is able to grind more than one stone rubble into crumbs, and then (by mixing it with clay, sand, water) turn it all into more blocks. I increased everything by 4 times (both the amount of rubble required and the amount of blocks produced), in my opinion it looks quite realistic and balanced.

With these parameters you can really set up efficient production and rebuild your colony out of concrete.


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