[Space Exploration] Suggestion: Methane Crafting

### **Suggestion:**
**Recipe to create Methane for transport**

Two Overall crafting methods (recipes are mostly just ratios, not actual values)

Based on real life scenario of coal + steam = Syngas, Then Syngas + lots of heat/pressure (vulcanite: it needs 500C +) to reach Methanation via Sabatier process

* **New Intermediate (Syngas)** :
* 2 coal + 20 Steam -> 30 Syngas (Chemical Reactor)
Then|
* 120 Syngas + 1 Vulcanite -> 60 Syngas + 24 Methane gas + 12 water (Oil Refinery)

* **No Intermediate**
* 4 coal + 1 vulcanite + 40 Steam -> 24 Methane gas + 12 Water (Chemical Reactor)
* Same ratio, but skips the intermediate

### **Balance Considerations/Suggestions**

* Current ratio is roughly ~70% the efficiency of Coal Liquefaction (with no prod)
* Not great compression compared to just shipping coal for liquifaction
* Should be ideally similar/better than coal liquefaction but more compact logistics wise for the extra cryo/vulcanite cost
* Vulcanite needs balancing ( ie 20 coal + 1 vulcanite + 200 steam instead)
* Use Cryo to compact/freeze for transport
* Would need rebalancing of Methane ice for larger difference in compression/cost
OR
* Possibility of it creating a different “Liquid Methane” rather than using Methane gas
* Would solve compression issues because could be tweaked for balance separately
* Liquid methane is possible at reasonable temperatures at high pressure, and would be more “pure” so its better compressed than methane ice