Production order

[Rasteroid]

Well from the look of your original story.. you could have been saved if you just disabled refining. The problem was, making the diamond (during refining) used a lot of your Coal, down to your firepower limit I guess.

You know the order production happens in. The refining happens, your Coal drops, finishes. The Factory phase starts.. you don't have the Coal to power the process.

A lot of these problems could be solved if I could just make all the numbers used in production available, in some kind of awesome spreadsheet, but.. jeeze, that's kind of a pain.

I am planning to put in the level of refining option.

[Rasteroid]

JC's Greenhouse not using fuel.. maybe you grew the Food without the Greenhouse? Maybe it was powered by something else?

The production/refining code is not a pretty set of algebra, and I don't like to delve into it unless I'm more sure there's a problem. Is something definitely not working the way it's stated in the Documentation?

[spamwise]

Yeah, I know it was my own darned fault and if I had paid closer attention I wouldn't be in this mess. I'm just saying it was frustrating, wanted to issue a warning to all other coal miners out there, and blow off a little steam. (I'm not looking for a handout *cough* nanich *cough* )