"high quality distillate (heads)" recipe byproduct is excessive/inadequate

[rubenpd]

Describe the bug

the recipe for "high quality distillate (heads)" gives back as byproduct the same material it needs to be crafted, in increased quantity... literally creating items from nothing

Steps To Reproduce

1 spawn materials needed to make the whole ordeal
2 craft it
3 observe your starting ingredient "high quality distillate (tails)" growing in size

Expected behavior

i'm not an expert of oil refining, but this recipe goes against the laws of physics creating items from nothing

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Versions and configuration

windows 10
version 6db9695
build 2021-11-10-0755

Additional context

No response

[andrei8l]

This entire crafting chain is pretty wacky and evocative. Some of the worst offenders:

• qualitative/quantitative filter paper: 2/20 micron-rated filter made by stabbing paper with a knife for a minute
• vacuum pump: lab-grade vacuum pump made from an automotive pump + 2 pipes, a hose, and a drive belt. Not sure where the drive belt is even supposed to go in that setup, but it adds 16kg to the final product.
• high quality distillate cartridge: bake a glass shard at low temperature for 5 minutes to get 50 of these

Not to mention that some of the names used are very confusing. Weed and drugs are literally the last things I think of when I see "high quality crude oil" or "high quality wax".

[Photoloss]

Not to mention that some of the names used are very confusing. Weed and drugs are literally the last things I think of when I see "high quality crude oil" or "high quality wax".

Good lord YES! I only discovered it while looking for potential fuels and was quite surprised to see what looked like an entire petrochemical refinery segmented into hand-crafted recipes. Except it isn't.

And we have "heroin addict/dependence" out in the open right at character creation as well as crafting recipes for metamphetamine so I doubt deliberate obfuscation is necessary.

[Sohex]

It's not so much deliberate obfuscation as it is an issue of context. Wax, shatter, and oil are all the accepted names for various forms of cannabis extracts, but that should definitely be clarified in the naming for the sake of clarity. e.g. "high quality THC wax" or what have you.

Edit; And on the note of byproducts, it would make sense to be able to produce CBD oil and such as well which could be used for mild degrees of pain relief.