Currently playing atm9 im just wondering what’s the best way to processing ores. I don’t know Mekanism at all and would to avoid going that route. I’m early game. I know I can go occultism but don’t the mod.

So I've been playing with Mekanism in older versions of Minecraft (1.12) for a while but I recently upgraded to Mechanism 10 and Minecraft 1.18.2 so I am going to re-cap a few things that are probably obvious to most people.

In older versions, the Tier 1 ore processing was you would put 1 ore into an enrichment chamber and get 2 dusts out, then cook those dusts for 2 ingots. This is still technically true in latest Minecraft/Mekanism, except you can't get ores without silk touch anymore in latest Minecraft. Instead breaking ores now drop raw metals. So breaking 1 iron ore results in 1 raw iron.

But instead of 1 raw iron turning into 2 dusts when placed in the enrichment chambers like ores do, it takes 3 raw iron to get 4 iron dust. So instead of getting a x2 boost to ore production, the Tier 1 ore processing only gives a x1.33 boost.

I don't understand why the boost would be reduced for raw metals vs ores, when the difference is basically cosmetic. Ores only drop 1 raw metal. So unless I am missing something there isn't any exploit potential. It seems like the only result of this change is to increase the amount of time grinding for resources... and maybe give an excuse to get silk touch enchantments?

Is there a config file that I can edit to change the recipe back?