This way, the SRR would stay relevant more easily in the late game and would allow more flexibility in belt and factory designs. For example, you could strip the regolith of all titanium ore at one point and belt the rest to be sorted and used somewhere else.
#Single Regolith Refinery should output regolith without the seperated ore inside
ebon rapids
vast prairie
I'm in favor of this.
As it is, there is literally no point in building single-refineries. They are intensely wasteful. If I don't have to, I don't build even a single one of these during initial factory setup because the multi-refinery is the next item in research and is better in every single way.
The single refinery should separate ores out one at a time and output regolith that still has the OTHER ore types left intact. (Or Slag if there is no ore content left). Four single-refineries each removing 1 kind of ore should be able to handle a higher throughput than a single multi-refinery, at the cost of being significantly bigger and taking more CPU points and maintenance. It would leave there be some purpose to having these
ornate rune
all things valid. but the tech tree has adapted and the multi needs a lot of orange science now and the very expensive no-conveyor-storage is now needed before you can get it.
on the other side, a non-upgradable MRR can be bought for 60k now.
wise iris
60k isnt a lot