Reinforced Iron Plate

Reinforced Iron Plates are an upgraded version of Iron Plates used to construct Conveyor Belt Mk.2, Conveyor Lift Mk.2, several other buildings, and some moderately advanced parts.

Alternate recipes analysis
The following shows different ways to produce 1 Reinforced Iron Plate / second, or 60 / min:
 * Weighted Point is the weighted consumption rate which is calculated by: . The lower the better.
 * Energy per item can be used to measure how much power is consumed for the entire production chain. The lower the better.
 * Space refers to building space, excluding belts and pipes. The lower the better.
 * Among multiple ways to produce each of the ingredient, the recipe with the lowest WP is chosen. The exception is mentioned below:
 * Iron Plate - Default Iron Plate
 * Screw - Cast Screw
 * Rubber
 * Wire
 * Rounding errors accumulated from the preceding steps, as displayed in the image above, are corrected in the table.

Recipes comparison
There are multiple ways to craft Reinforced Iron Plates, provided the Alternate Recipes for it are unlocked. Each recipe combo trades between simplicity, power consumption and ore efficiency.  There are additional ways to craft Reinforced Iron Plates which are not mentioned here, simply because those recipes are not recommended.

History

 * Patch 0.3.2.0: Tweaked some resource meshes - Motor, Reinforced Iron Plate, Mycelia, Steel Pipe, Cable, all packaged liquids

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