Taking the same time per alloying cycle as other alloys meant that carbon
steel was being produced painfully slowly, becuase it processes much less
material per cycle than other alloys. This change halves the cycle time,
which leaves it still processing less material per second than other
alloying processes, but by a less drastic margin.
The centrifuge, currently only existing in an MV variety, is a machine
that separates a mixed substance into its constituents. Currently the
main use is to reverse alloying of metals. The alloy separation recipes
intentionally only operate on the dust form of metals, making this less
convenient than the original alloying. It also only recovers metal
constituents, not the carbon that went into cast iron or carbon steel.
This change incidentally generalises the technic recipe and
machine infrastructure to handle recipes with multiple outputs.
As unified_inventory's craft guide can't yet handle that, these recipes
are not registered there.
Zefram
Novatux