I love Kindling Shred, got my farm up and I want to use it a lot !
I noticed that the ratios and numbers look a little odd to me:
I want to use Kindling Shred to improve my fuels…after all I have built a farm and harvested it! However, I noticed that the cost for mass crafting Kindling Shred is always the same for all materials but doesn’t output the same amount of fuel.
In effect this makes it so that you get less spark per shred depending on the material. Since I want to use my farm and have it be an impact to my fuels…this feels bad and punitive. I loose if I infuse my Peat…but I love using Peat as a fuel source! It just seems so wasteful to use it on anything except Hard Coal…especially since it costs so much and takes so much time to gather.
If the formula was re-balanced to take into account the amount of fuel it offers it would look like this:
So to mass craft Peat, it would take 6 shred, but you would be getting the same ratio (approximately) as you do when you use Shred on Hard Coal.
I would love to have Shred be used more. I would love to have it have a better feel in game when you use it.
Happy to answer any questions. I know the numbers above are rough and might not work perfectly…but even a move in the direction of having it ramp with Shred cost would be amazing.
Enchanced Hard Coal is 6.6x faster in furnace vs 3x faster for regular hard coal compact.
It ups the speed across all the items though.
Heat /Spark is the same ratio.
If you use it in a furnace to get the extra cook time/heat out of it. That is the same ratio of using it for spark and getting the extra spark/faster spark conversion time.
It works out to be the same regardless which way you use it.
You always just get less if you use it on peat vs the other materials.
I use Compact Peat for Spark and I use Wood in furnaces.
I don’t need to cook things quickly, so I just use wood because it doesn’t matter how long it takes for my factory. I am loading it up once a day anyway.
Using Compact Peat, I would like to get more spark out of it and have a better ratio for spark. Right now, using Shred on Compact Peat is a big loss and I don’t think it should be.