# Reprocessing Increases Volume?

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**Category:** EVE Lore Discussion\
**Created:** [October 28, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/reprocessing-increases-volume/334532 "2021-10-28T22:22:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Von\_DeMoreno](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/von_demoreno/32/491525_2.png) [@Von\_DeMoreno](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Von_DeMoreno)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/reprocessing-increases-volume/334532/1 "2021-10-28T22:22:33Z")

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Is there something in the lore that explains how an item’s reprocessed materials have a greater volume than the original item?

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**Author:** ![Qia\_Kare](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/qia_kare/32/279281_2.png) [@Qia\_Kare](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Qia_Kare)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/reprocessing-increases-volume/334532/2 "2021-10-28T22:32:56Z")

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That I know of, there is no explanation given (though it may be that I have just never heard it). If you require one and no official explanation exists, you can suppose that a completely raw material’s volume includes packaging material and supporting apparatus of some kind to make it easy to transport, dispense, or process into something useful.

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**Author:** ![Lauralite\_Anne\_Brezia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lauralite_anne_brezia/32/380065_2.png) [@Lauralite\_Anne\_Brezia](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lauralite_Anne_Brezia)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/reprocessing-increases-volume/334532/3 "2021-10-28T22:46:48Z")

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There is no extant prime fiction explaination for it, and, generally speaking, ‘volume’ has always been more of a game balance consideration than hard lore factuality for various items

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**Author:** ![Rail\_J\_kar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rail_j_kar/32/374429_2.png) [@Rail\_J\_kar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rail_J_kar)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/reprocessing-increases-volume/334532/4 "2021-12-14T13:49:14Z")

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It could be due to the containment equipment required for pure ore as well as losing the ability to use ore compression tech.

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**Author:** ![Suki\_Vokkonen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/suki_vokkonen/32/382402_2.png) [@Suki\_Vokkonen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Suki_Vokkonen)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 7:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/reprocessing-increases-volume/334532/5 "2021-12-14T19:27:45Z")

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And implants are 1m3 each, and you can have multiple (like 10 ?).  
In comparison, an average human body is 0.075m3…  
And “implants” means they are inside you, not a remote 1m3 electronic box in a lab. Don’t tell me there is a need for a 1m3 size box packaging for a chip small enough to be implanted in your head.

Volume in EVE, like many things, doesn’t make any sense.

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**Author:** ![Lauralite\_Anne\_Brezia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lauralite_anne_brezia/32/380065_2.png) [@Lauralite\_Anne\_Brezia](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lauralite_Anne_Brezia)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 8:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/reprocessing-increases-volume/334532/6 "2021-12-14T20:11:10Z")

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as I’ve already mentioned, and has even been stated by some devs, m3 is largely a balancing consideration and not hard coded size

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**Author:** ![Suki\_Vokkonen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/suki_vokkonen/32/382402_2.png) [@Suki\_Vokkonen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Suki_Vokkonen)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/reprocessing-increases-volume/334532/7 "2021-12-14T20:19:40Z")

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> [@Lauralite\_Anne\_Brezia](#):
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> balancing consideration

And is what I said: makes no sense.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/reprocessing-increases-volume/334532/8 "2022-03-14T20:20:22Z")

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