Update Material Processing for 0.17

[HonkingGoose]

Because of belt speed changes, it's likely that the furnace count needed to smelt a fully compressed belt is going to change too. Unless of course, the furnace recipes are going to be changed too. The nuclear processing section will likely also change.

From the Factorio forum from developer V453000, there is already a proposal for a smelting recipe change:

As the smelting recipe change, I am proposing the following:

• Iron plate, copper plate, stone brick: 3.2
• Steel: 16

That would mean exactly 48 stone furnaces per yellow belt, which is the number that people already build, but some of the last ones flicker with inactivity in 0.16, now all of them would work nonstop.

Source for furnace recipe change proposal: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=64219#p392508

[deniszholob]

From https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-276
"A next step we are considering is tweaking the furnace recipes to match the belt speed, but that is a consideration for another day."

So we shall see if ratios change

[HonkingGoose]

We'll have to wait and see then if the ratios change, at least it's on your milestone so you know to check that part when 0.17 comes out.

[s3bash]

I recreated my calculation worksheet for Material Processing, mining, and basic power/fuel usage in google sheets (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QDm0FMYdMLyXM8YXluJ400T7TOUU49LO6TKPYYYrlDY/edit?usp=sharing) Updated it with what is known of 0.17 changes and as long as the formula doesn't change (like it did for mining) once the new values are know we can just plug it in and get the new numbers.