Gthane and Glizzy's General Chemistry mod!

Are you tired of leaving your base to go into dark, dank, and dusty caves for a crumb of saltpeter?

Well! Look no further, as GGGC is for you! With simple-ish crafting steps to boot!

For version 1.19.8

Release v0.2.0 Oct, 2nd, 2024
New stuff! Changelog has all the details, but I will explain them here too!

More Things™ have been added! Here is a list of all current features.

Gypsum: Calcium sulfate crystal found in limestone, chalk, and white marble (not pink or green (for no reason)).

Sulfate: Sulfates come in all shapes and sizes. For now you can free them from their gypsum prison.

Gypsum-Sand Mix: This mixture will prevent the sulfates from reaching freedom, allowing you to collect more!

Soaked Firewood: It's soaked with saltwater. The water goes into the wood, and the salt crystals can be scrapped off the outside.

The texture for the soaked firewood is base game firewood, I'm having issues changing it and will look into it soon.

Nitrated Soil: Rot shoved into dirt. The higher fertility the dirt, the less rot needed to nitrate it.

Nitrate: Nitrates extracted from the nitrated soil, used in saltpeter production!

Wood Ash: Burn logs and grass in a firepit to get wood ash, use the wood ash as a source of potassium for your saltpeter.

(If you use EM and Valley of Ashes, let me know if this breaks. I need to make compatability, but no time and I wanted to get this out)

All of these are open to balancing suggestions. I'm still playing with them and feeling out the barrel times, crafting ratios, etc. I don't want the crafting to be "hard" to do, but be purposeful and "feel" right. That's why sulfate has a "bad" and a "good" recipe. You can do either, but refining and purification are bread and butter chemistry. Next lab we will be doing titrations, I hope you all finished your pre-lab. 😁

This is our first attempt at modding, and we hope to push this concept a little further moving forward.

The recipies are as vanilla friendly as we could get without adding extra steps or adding libraries, for now.

Nitrate can be used as a fertilizer, the %N was determined from the Rot -> Compost process. We determined the composting process is "more efficient" than ours, but the loss of %N in nitrate for equal parts rot is only 4% currently. It should probably be less efficient.

Future plans(kinda in order):

• Sulfur extraction
• Salt extraction (been done before but will still add) Kinda done may revisit
  
• Wood Ash/Potash and Lime extractions
• Multiple sources for nitrates and sulfates *new*
• Add ChemistryLib and Lavoisier (maybe separate mod)
  
• Make the player do actual chemical reactions to isolate desired compounds.
• Ore leeching
• Lower yields to align with reality

This mod may help people who use Maltiez's Firearms and Lastelle's Rusty Shell. Both are very fun, try them out!

If you know why my modded liquids (not included in the download) don't work, comment,  please I beg of you. Curse block classes

Credits:

Coding: Gthane, Glizzy
Textures: Glizzy
Concept: Gthane

Thanks to the Wiki's modding tutorials and every mod we investigated for help!