FarmbotTech Firstly double-check that you're actually combining your prisms correctly. You can lose a ton of dps if you do it wrong. Proper ion beam combination should have each prism receive exactly two inputs of equal strength. If you're still confused, I think 0neye's guide details it
As far as a stronger ion beam goes, first go check out some info on how Cosmoteer modding works: https://forum.cosmoteer.net/d/6811-introduction-to-modding.
When ion beams hit something, they do damage and an inverted ammodrain of an ammo type called ion_energy. Prisms can receive ion energy and use it to fire an ion beam back out wherever they're aiming. Adding your own ion beam will be easy in and of itself, it's just like adding pretty much any other weapon. There are two more difficult parts you'll need to do to get it to work with prisms though: firstly, you'll need to add your own ammo type that's distinct from the one the vanilla ion uses, otherwise when your modded beam hits a prism the prism will just output the vanilla beam again. Secondly, you'll need to add code to the vanilla prism to allow it to receive that ammo type, shoot it out of a new emitter, and properly toggle that emitter on/off.
If you need any help, feel free to post questions on the forum or join the Cosmoteer discord if you're old enough for the TOS. For the forum, always upload your crash log and (if any) relevant files, but upload it to something like pastebin so it doesn't take up like 30 pages.
