# Industry: refining, compacting and fabricating materials across the tiers
# (docs/industry.md).
#
# Recipes name kinds, not materials: "ore" means the ore of the tier being
# worked, so one recipe covers all twenty tiers.

[ladder]
tiers = 20
# An ore, crystal or salvage without a price in materials.toml costs this
# many times the same kind a tier below.
price_growth = 1.35
# An alloy or component without a price costs what refining it takes, times
# this. Refining before you sell is worth the wait.
markup = 1.25
# A module one tier up has this many times the main stat (damage, shields,
# armor, mining, scanning, cargo, engine boost). Range, rate of fire and
# accuracy belong to the module, not the tier.
stat_growth = 1.3
# Past the Kessler Ring (tier 3 and up) no belt holds salvage: it comes from
# pirate wrecks and from fabricating. A recipe written below that tier (most
# forge, scrap and Workshop recipes are written at tier 1, where the ring
# keeps salvage plentiful) takes this share of its salvage once it is made up
# here (rounded, at least 1), so a handful of cleared hideouts covers an
# objective. Refining stretches its batches to match (IndustryDef::refine_at).
salvage_from = 3
salvage_share = 0.2

# Refining, at a dock with a refinery of that tier or better: raw materials
# of one tier in, refined goods of the same tier out.
[refine.alloy]
inputs = { ore = 4, salvage = 1 }
output = 2
seconds = 8.0

[refine.components]
inputs = { crystal = 2, salvage = 1 }
output = 2
seconds = 12.0

# Fabricating, at a dock with a refinery of that tier or better: a tier's ore
# and crystal made into its salvage, from tier `from` up. A bad trade in
# credits, like compacting (the ladder checks it never pays): it is how a
# fleet that would rather not hunt gets the plating, slag and husks its forge
# asks for.
[fabricate.salvage]
inputs = { ore = 3, crystal = 1 }
output = 1
seconds = 10.0
from = 3

# Compacting: `ratio` units of a raw material make one unit of the same kind
# a tier up. A bad trade in credits, a good one in time: it is how a system
# with only low-tier belts gets higher-tier stock. The ladder's prices must
# keep it lossy (a tier up never costs `ratio` times as much).
[compact]
ratio = 10
seconds = 20.0
kinds = ["ore", "crystal", "salvage"]

# Research projects (forge_projects.rs, docs/industry.md "Research"): past
# tier 6 nobody drops Ferrum or Helion gear, so the
# forge of a starbase you hold works out a family's next tier itself, once
# its forge works that tier. A project costs `forgings` forgings of the
# module at the tier it teaches (credits, and that tier's stock from the
# hangar) and runs `seconds` by the module's size. A forge runs `at_once`
# projects side by side (Rheisen, 2026-10-18), each family at one forge at a
# time. A family you don't know yet starts from its twin (modules.toml
# `twin`) known to the family's first tier.
[projects]
factions = ["ferrum", "helion"]
from = 7
forgings = 10
seconds = { s = 600.0, m = 900.0, l = 1200.0, xl = 1500.0 }
at_once = 3