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What did you do?
Recycled a pistol.

What happened?
The pistol recycled into copper and iron plates, consistent with the removed pre-2.0.7 recipe.


What did you expect to happen instead?
The pistol should recycle into itself with 25% chance, to be consistent with other uncraftable / chemically altered resources and to allow quality upcycling.

Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?
Always.

The pistol recipe was not Removed; just marked as “hidden” so that you can’t easily craft new ones. Im pretty sure you can still access it by Blueprint String editing or importing a pre-2.0 save.

recipe.lua

Edit: Testing shows that while you can create a Blueprint, you get "Recipe not researched" because no Technologies are setup to unlock the Recipe. D'oh! There is, of course, a mod for that.

I am not considering this to be a bug for 2 reasons: quality upcycling does not matter here since you cannot automate production of base items, and recycling to base ingredients does not make iron or copper unbalanced (does not introduce overpowered recipe that would make other means of obtaining plates obsolete).