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# RTM 3.X — Cumulative Changelog up to 3.2 ## Performance - Major performance overhaul across machines, processing, networks, rendering, and runtime logic. - Reduced unnecessary ticking, repeated calculations, synchronization, and other expensive operations. - Improved scalability for large factories, bases, and long-running worlds. ## Oil & Petrochemicals - Completely reworked oil refining and petroleum processing. - Rebalanced fuels, outputs, efficiencies, processing requirements, and refinery progression. - Expanded petrochemical integration with the rest of the industrial system. ## Power Generation - Completely reworked power generation around realistic machine ratings, fuel energy, efficiency, and load. - Rebalanced early, mid, and industrial-scale generators. - Expanded heat, steam, combustion, and combined-cycle generation. - Added and reworked several industrial generators, turbines, boilers, and heat-recovery systems. - Improved generator behavior under partial load, full grids, and waste-heat conditions. ## Heat & Thermal Systems - Reworked thermal energy accounting across machines. - Improved heat generation, transfer, consumption, and waste handling. - Expanded external heating and industrial thermal processing. ## Metallurgy - Major metallurgy overhaul covering steelmaking, alloys, furnaces, material forms, and bulk processing. - Added the Industrial Blast Furnace and restructured furnace progression. - Reworked ore, powder, ingot, nugget, coke, flux, slag, and related material handling. - Removed or corrected numerous unrealistic material shortcuts. ## Chemistry - Major chemical-processing overhaul. - Reworked Chemical Reactor behavior, energy requirements, inputs, outputs, and fluid handling. - Expanded multi-fluid infrastructure and industrial chemical production. - Rebalanced batch sizes, utility requirements, and production rates across large portions of the chemistry system. ## Bulk Production - Increased practical throughput for construction and commodity materials. - Reworked batch sizes for concrete, asphalt, soil, water treatment, acids, fertilizers, polymers, gases, and other high-demand materials. - Reduced excessive grind while retaining industrial-scale resource and energy requirements. ## Machines & Progression - Audited machine recipes, costs, capabilities, and progression placement. - Rebalanced machines whose performance did not match their construction cost or intended role. - Added, replaced, renamed, or deprecated machines where needed to improve progression. - Improved early-game power and industrial progression. ## Fluids & Infrastructure - Improved fluid quantities, tank capacities, piping, and machine integration. - Added shared multi-fluid piping support. - Standardized fluid handling across more machines and processes. ## UI, NEI & Information - Improved machine GUIs, tooltips, fluid displays, and electrical/thermal ratings. - Expanded NEI information for industrial processes. - Fixed numerous missing, incorrect, or broken recipe displays. ## Fixes & Consistency - Large audit of recipes, material conversions, machine behavior, fuel handling, and process accounting. - Fixed numerous progression blockers, invalid recipes, incorrect quantities, and inconsistent machine rules. - Improved overall consistency between energy, chemistry, metallurgy, fuels, and industrial production. RTM 3.X is effectively a full **Real-Sim overhaul** of HBM's industrial systems, starting with oil processing and extending through performance, energy, heat, chemistry, metallurgy, machines, infrastructure, and progression.