Should plastic mold be swapped for lump of clay?

[Xpyder]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

There have been a number of discussions about plastic molds over the last year or so.

the TL:DR is that they don't make sense where used currently (would need to be only for 1 specific item and then only for batches), are only available in 1 book, are not autolearned, are a massive artificial bottleneck, and any attempts to make the recipe more wide spread have been consistently reverted.

Describe the solution you'd like

I think plastic mold should just be directly swapped for lump of clay as a tool, then those audited for anything that doesn't make sense. But I wanted to open the floor to see if this is the general consensus or if we think a different approach should be used

I'll see if I can do a scan of where it's used at some point and post the results

Describe alternatives you've considered

reworking the batch crafting system so where plastics are used allow an optional plastic mold (created specifically for that item) to allow for a better time savings

Additional context

#47867
#32883
#47826
#46948
https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/should-plastic-mold-recipe-be-in-more-books/25310
#45293
#45514
#45498

[Maleclypse]

Plastic mold has already been replaced in the 0.F -dev branch. Once stable releases you should see the difference in the new experimentals.

[Xpyder]

Yey! do you have a pr or issue number I can put here for posterity after I close this?

[Maleclypse]

#47880 this will make significant changes to the plastic mold. I thought this was merged already but not quite yet.

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[Xpyder]

With the move to vacuum molds this becomes largely unnecessary