Crates are much faster to make. The meter on the fab now fills in five seconds, whatever the size of your crew. It used to take ten seconds or more.
Extractors pump ore twice as fast to keep up with the faster fab. Each patch still holds all twelve crates' worth of ore. It just runs dry in about a minute of steady pumping instead of two.
Macerators and furnaces work faster too, so they keep up with the fab on the days that have them.
Fixed
Crates piled up and got stuck at the end of a pipe. A crate now shoots out of the pipe and lands about three metres away, leaving room for the next one. In co-op, your friends see it fly out too, instead of it jumping from the pipe to where it landed.