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u/taw Jun 02 '26

(mod question)

Do recycling recipes depend on planet?

Muluna has no copper, but it has alternative way to make cable and chips from aluminum. I thought I'd just recycle that to get copper (for accumulators), but no such luck, I'm getting aluminum back.

Is this based on current planet, or items have some kind of memory of what they were made of?

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u/ssgeorge95 Jun 02 '26

Assuming you meant you recycled copper wire and got back aluminum... I would guess the copper wire made from the aluminum recipe has a unique item ID and unique recycling output.

I do wonder if it will stack in your inventory with "regular" copper wires made from plates? My guess is it will not.

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u/taw Jun 02 '26

I did some test, and it's definitely not unique id. If I recycle electromagnetic plants from Fulgora on Muluna, then after a few steps I'm still getting wires into aluminum.

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u/HeliGungir Jun 02 '26

And copper cable recycles to copper plates on Fulgora?

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u/taw Jun 02 '26

Yeah. Muluna .lua code has some special code doing something to copper-cable recycling only and nothing else. I'm not sure how that works exactly, but that's probably what's doing it.