The Game thinks you are. An ingredient is colored brown when it is also used as a tool to make the product, the typical case is making something that require hammering 1 and a rock and having only one rock.
No, they are not. I have one makeshift welder with a battery compartment mod that I’m using as a tool and two absolutely freshly crafted makeshift welders with no charges, no mods, no damage or anything.
That’s the point. The game thinks. Even though I do have all the needed things: one welder as a tool, two welders as ingridients.
Wield the welder that you intend to use and then drop the other two on the ground. The game processes item in your inventory and on the ground separately and should get around the bug.
Nope. Still doesn’t work. And I’ve accidentally used the new ‘hide recipe’ function and I can’t find the way to bring the recipes back, since the button is the same for showing and hiding, but you can’t select a recipe since it’s, well… hidden. Never mind, it’s done via the search.