You guys played with my friends in Spectral Fangs and Mother Tongue a while back . I enjoyed your stuff . <| sep |> Haha no you ' re on point and I think I just said it a bit poorly . What I don ' t like is when you have 8 steps to a recipe and they can all be done at a crafting bench with basic ingredients . If a recipe is complex it should be because you have to put things through some machines or find new materials . Like using enriched sand combine sand and Quartz to smelt into a special glass that you need for the recipe . That introduces a meaningful level of complexity . Using iron bars instead of iron just introduces complexity for no real reason . The first type introduces an opportunity for automation while the second is just another recipe to plug into an auto crafter .