rework materials from the ground up

[Vitatroll]

Having chems as additives isn't bad, ya. It's not like they all have to be useful. It could also be limited to harder to get chems like liquid spacetime, uranium, voltagen, etc. It's not really needed though.

I do dig the idea of chem-like recipes for matsci.

On the crafting end all I want are things to wear, really. Maybe a few matsci-only machines or something, but I like looking good over actually being useful. Anything that added cosmetic effects would be a huge plus. Crafted weapons are nice, but at current it looks like a bow and arrow could be far deadlier than a laser. The gem shivs are pretty stronk.