My primary motivation for these is making it simpler to research the techs if I have 'theory' research disabled. These introduce some parts from the prerequsities into research for the techs, without them reverse engineering is a significant portion of the research, and since there are no existing items from the mod yet, it's hard to finish the research for these techs.
Also, I play with no starting research, and at least plumbing should definitely depend on something later than the starting lateral thinking, given that it's obviously medieval.
My primary motivation for these is making it simpler to research the techs if I have 'theory' research disabled. These introduce some parts from the prerequsities into research for the techs, without them reverse engineering is a significant portion of the research, and since there are no existing items from the mod yet, it's hard to finish the research for these techs. Also, I play with no starting research, and at least plumbing should definitely depend on something later than the starting lateral thinking, given that it's obviously medieval.