User:Thrawcheld/Scrap yields

Yields per 1000 scrap

The following table lists the expected yield (rows) per 1000 scrap, if all possible recycling steps that could yield that item are performed.

• Direct yields are those obtained by recycling in only one step.
• Full process yields are those obtained by further recycling the direct products, assuming the maximum possible amount is recycled. Only items that have at least one recyclable yield have this column.

Full process yields will not usually be obtained in practice, since some intermediate recyclable items will be consumed instead of recycled. In particular, the yield of electronic circuits, copper plates, copper cables, and plastic is much lower when rockets are being constructed, since rocket construction consumes processing units and low density structures.

The table takes into account that each yield is rolled for independently, including for scrap.

The uses column includes only items that are useful on Fulgora and cannot be obtained directly from scrap.

Recycler yields per 1000 scrap

Yield	Input											Uses
	Scrap		Iron gear wheel	Concrete	Battery	Copper cable	Advanced circuit		Processing unit		Low density structure
	Direct	Full process					Direct	Full process	Direct	Full process
Advanced circuit	30	40							10	10		logistic chests modules beacon express splitter logistic robots roboport selector combinator substation
Battery	40	40										accumulator flying robot frame supercapacitor
Concrete	60	60										refined concrete rocket silo paving
Copper cable	30	98.75					30	41.25		27.5		combinators beacon programmable speaker lamp substation
Copper plate		109.375			10	15		20.625		13.75	50	superconductor
Electronic circuit		120					0.5	0.5	5	5.25		many useful items, notably: supercapacitor
Holmium ore	10	10										holmium solution holmium plate lightning collector supercapacitor electromagnetic science pack Tesla gun Tesla ammo Tesla turret electrolyte electromagnetic plant mech armor supercapacitor superconductor Tesla gun fusion power cell (on Aquilo) lithium (on Aquilo) electromagnetic science pack
Ice	50	50										water refined concrete holmium solution cracking
Iron gear wheel	200	200										many things, none unique to Fulgora
Iron ore		1.5		1.5								nothing
Iron plate		140	100		10			3.75		26.25		many things, in particular: accumulator
Low density structure	10	10										power armor mk2 mech armor rocket part
Plastic bar		32.5					15	15		5	12.5	superconductor Tesla gun Tesla ammo
Processing unit	20	20										level 2/3 modules electromagnetic plant mech armor power armour mk2 (used in mech armor) recycler rocket part rocket silo
Solid fuel	70	70										rocket fuel rocket part fuelling trains
Steel plate	40	45									5	many things, notably: beacon flying robot frame power armor mk2 (used in mech armor) rail, rail ramp and rail support refined concrete roboport rocket silo recycler electromagnetic plant lightning rod and lightning collector
Stone	40	40										foundation rail holmium solution electrolyte
Stone brick		7.5		7.5								lightning rod paving

Processed scrap in terms of stacks

Recycling scrap produces the following numbers of stacks. The table lists expected numbers from 20,000 scrap, which is 400 stacks.

Product	Stack size	Per 1 scrap		Per 20,000 scrap
		Quantity	Stacks	Stacks	Quantity
Advanced circuit	200	0.03	0.00015	3	600
Battery	200	0.04	0.0002	4	800
Concrete	100	0.06	0.0006	12	1200
Copper cable	200	0.03	0.00015	3	600
Holmium ore	50	0.01	0.0002	4	200
Ice	50	0.05	0.001	20	1000
Iron gear wheel	100	0.2	0.002	40	4000
Low density structure	50	0.01	0.0002	4	200
Processing unit	100	0.02	0.0002	4	200
Solid fuel	50	0.07	0.0014	28	1400
Steel plate	100	0.04	0.0004	8	800
Stone	50	0.02	0.0004	8	400
Total	—	0.6	—	—	146	12000

The total per 1 scrap is the expected quantity of something, calculated as the sum of expected quantities of the other items (this calculation is valid since they are statistically independent). This is not the same as the probability of getting something, which is 0.468775584950143, calculated as 1 minus the probability of getting nothing, i.e. the product of 1 minus the probability of getting each item. The difference is accounted for by the fact that each craft of the scrap recycling recipe can produce multiple items.

One cargo wagon has 40 slots, so to get 146 slots you need 4 cargo wagons, with 14 left over.

If the holmium ore is converted to holmium solution before being shipped by rail, it will also consume 5% of the ice (as water) and 12.5% of the stone, at 0% productivity bonus. Per 20,000 scrap this translates to a saving of 4 stacks of holmium ore, 1 stack of ice, and 2 stacks of stone, for a total of 139 stacks, while adding a fluid wagon (holmium solution cannot be barrelled).

If the ice is melted and barrelled before being shipped out, it will produce 380 barrels (38 stacks of barrels) of water, while eliminating 20 barrels of ice, and if fresh barrels are used, they consume 380 steel (3.8 rounded up to 4 stacks of steel), thus occupying 14 more stacks than the ice would, for a total of 160 stacks occupied. This exactly fills 4 cargo wagons.