Idea for production benefit
I sincerly believe ingots should be added back to the game but as a middle man, keep your current production system but have ingots as a form of compact and generic storage, this also allows you to disassemble / melt down components into ingots to be resused / recycled for other components.
Say you run out of iron but have a crap ton of tubes, plates and etc you should be able to melt those down into ingots to cycle through production again.
Not sure if you have something planned already currently, but I think having ingots as just a complimentary step that is optional and purely there as storage + generic form would keep your production balance and make it much easier to recycle components.
You can still use backpack building for ore and ingots, but ingots will also allow you to carry more. The ingots can be entirely optional but as a resource for storage and recyclability
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