RTM 3.3 — RealSim, Manufacturing & Stability Update

Industrial Manufacturing & Chemistry

• Added new iron refining processes, including ore pelletizing, hydrogen-based direct reduction, and electric arc furnace steelmaking.
• Rebalanced chemical processing times to make large-scale manufacturing more practical without reducing resource or energy costs.
• Added new production routes for stainless steel, ferrochrome, and Osmium-Iridium contact alloys.
• Expanded Assembler manufacturing for armor modifications, electronics, and advanced equipment.
• Restored nitre bed production, accessible fertilizer crafting, and additional sulfur recovery methods.
• Improved bulk production speeds for concrete, asphalt, and other commonly consumed materials.

Electricity & Infrastructure

• Overhauled power pole compatibility, allowing most distribution poles to connect directly without requiring substations.
• Fixed Cable Drum connection errors, broken wire persistence, and network corruption.
• Improved electrical network reliability when poles are destroyed, replaced, or unloaded.
• Updated Cable Drum crafting requirements.

NEI & Recipe Integration

• Expanded NEI coverage for industrial machines, generators, steam systems, resource extraction, and nuclear processes.
• Added informational recipe pages for machines that generate or consume resources continuously.
• Fixed missing recipes, incorrect ingredient quantities, broken recipe navigation, and misleading tooltips.
• Fixed Rotary Furnace NEI crashes and several other recipe viewer issues.
• Improved compatibility with GTNH NEI.

Water & Fluid Systems

• Groundwater pumps now extract Fresh Water inland and Salt Water in ocean biomes.
• Renamed the previous raw Water fluid to Salt Water while preserving compatibility with existing saves.
• Improved fluid handling to prevent incompatible liquids from mixing or being overwritten.
• Fixed several machine fluid conversion and output-blocking issues.

Bug Fixes & Stability

• Fixed Small Arc Furnace synchronization and incorrect machine information displays.
• Fixed turbofan fuel consumption and electrical output reporting.
• Improved inventory preservation, machine save/load behavior, and interrupted processing reliability.
• Fixed various crashes involving empty recipes, invalid machine states, and malformed network data.
• Corrected in-game version reporting and login message branding.
• Additional machine reliability, synchronization, and compatibility improvements.