Mod that will add slider for bulk crafting that will calculate the resources. You want to craft 1 simple meal ? No problem. What about 11 at once or 273 or 15 or 4 etc. Just slider or type box. Would save the crafting menu for bulk crafting of chemfuel, ammo, components, mod crafting, medicine, food, cloth/leather etc. It would take into consideration work amount + resources needed of course. I am actually surprised that something like this is not in the base game already.
Sound interesting at first, but could be deadly.
Bulk for 4x/8x arn't that worse, but could you imagine what happen when you create a 100x recipe ?
Since these recipes don't create a project the pawn need to craft it nonstop or all work is lost.
Some crafting need alot of work done, first the hauling of resources then the crafting. When you set a high number as crafting the pawn wouldn't do any eating/resting and would collapse or even die.
There was actually a mod that did a really good job creating and balancing bulk recipes, but from the looks of it the original creator hasn't been back on for a while now. Doesn't have sliders, but it calculated generating bulk recipes for both modded and vanilla items based on the time it takes to craft the item in question: Bulk Recipe Generator (https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=48838.0)
(I desperately miss this mod, this is one of the ones I was hoping to find updated for 1.2.)