Major change to Resource Stack system
Processing resources has always consumed the full stack of resources. This means whether you have 1 or 1000 resources they will always be used causing considerable waste at times.

Going forward item processors will instead take either the amount required to fill the processor or the full stack of resources divided by a reduction factor, whatever is higher. This will mean that filling processors with "more" than the required resources will never take your full amount. The higher your reduction factor the less resources will be wasted.

The reduction factor is based on your consecutive active days. The more consecutive active days the higher your reduction factor is.

Example: If I have 172 Iron Ore and use the Iron bar processor it will currently take 172 Iron Ore and produce one bar. This processor needs at least 10 Iron ore to process.
In the new system it will take MAX(10, 172 / REDUCTION_FACTOR) = 36 Iron Ore taken based on REDUCTION_FACTOR.

This will mean that larger stacks are still reduced more than the "base" amount but will not take your entire stack.

This change has been applied to item processors, if this system works and you find other systems in MD taking a full stack of resources please contact me and I will look at converting it over to the new system. This is a big change so feedback is welcome as it is always.