This mod was designed to be part of my Space Age Overhaul mod, but can be played separately without issue.

Main features

• Quality modules are much more potent
• Recyclers can no longer benefit from them
• Higher quality tiers get harder and harder to reach

These changes favor “upstream quality” production lines to get epics/legendary (such as uncommon ores > rare plates > epic circuits and intermediates with max productivity > legendary end product) rather than brute forcing your way crafting / recycling hundreds of items like in vanilla.

Additional tweaks

To fully support the changes, I added the following tweaks :

• prod modules 3 now require carbon fiber instead of biter eggs
• holmium plates are directly smelted from ore rather than from a liquid
• most plates can now be recycled into ore, allowing you to set up "enrichment loops" (at a steep cost)
• concrete and steel recycling recipes got a speed boost
• slightly reduced the plastic amount resulting from LDS recycling. You cannot use a few legendary plastic bars to get infinite legendary steel/copper on vulcanus as in vanilla, sorry !

This mod may reduce a bit the appeal of Fulgora, so the planet receive the following buff : the odds of getting a LDS structure from scrap recycling is doubled. This make it a rather good location to produce the utility science pack on top of the electromagnetic one.