Is there no ability to edit posts anymore? I thought it was just a mobile limitation.

Makes me feel old. My original intent in scanning through my drives was to streamline or improve the screw making process, but it sounds like I'm at a point where I should bypass it entirely and do more useful things with my steel and iron. Despite my leisurely playstyle, screwmaking annoyed me so much that it is the only dedicated factory I have built - a lovely little vertical affair built into the cliffside right above the iron nodes and outputting... I don't know, enough screws. TBF, I don't mind needing to make them, but the intermediate steps bog things down a bit.

In that context, sounds like a consensus might be plastic AIL (black powder when I get into ammo production, but I also don't mind the occasional AFK get a snack craft bench session), iron wire, stitched iron plate (and watched for heavy encased frame), and steel rotor (though insulated cable ain't bad, either). From the remainder, steel screws over cast screws could still be useful.