Inverted Quality
Quality now consists of negative tiers (positive tiers are removed).
Crafting items has a 60% chance to reduce their quality by one tier. Quality modules reduce the chance that the crafted item will be degraded.
To cope with the new gameplay, new entities are included (detailed below). In particular, the Downgrade Port means that high-quality items can be used in low-quality recipes.
Quality levels
| Quality | Level |
|---|---|
| Normal | 0 |
| Scuffed | -1 |
| Funky | -2 |
| Defective | -3 |
| Broken | -5 |
New entities
- Downgrader port
- A 1x1 entity that can be attached to the side of assemblers. Items inserted into the port are delivered to the assembler reduced in quality by one level.
- Using this port means that quality in this mod is backwards-compatible: high-quality items can be used in low-quality recipes.
- A 1x1 entity that can be attached to the side of assemblers. Items inserted into the port are delivered to the assembler reduced in quality by one level.
- Meltdown facility
- Items of any quality can be melted down into 1/8 of their base materials in Normal quality.
- Currently, '1/8 of base materials' is defined as the end result of repeatedly recycling items until they self-recycle, except with an overall factor 1/8 rather than 1/4 in each step.
- This calculation may be changed to later match the figures shown in 'Total raw'.
- Currently, '1/8 of base materials' is defined as the end result of repeatedly recycling items until they self-recycle, except with an overall factor 1/8 rather than 1/4 in each step.
- Items of any quality can be melted down into 1/8 of their base materials in Normal quality.
- Burner assembling machine
- Prevents a softlock in the early game.
Further details
- Currently, Broken is marked as 'hidden' so that it cannot be selected in assemblers to prevent all-Broken production chains.
- Unfortunately, this means the properties of Broken items are hidden in Factoriopedia, though you can infer their properties given the levels above.
- Like in vanilla, each instance of degradation has a 10% chance to be 'upgraded' to jump extra tiers.
- A few items are buffed in cases where the negative-quality stats would be unplayable, such as power pole supply area.
- This mod runs into a few base game bugs.
- The quality bonus shown in the tooltip of crafting machines is incorrect.
- The rotation speed of Nominal inserters is unusually poor.
- Science pack durability is listed incorrectly in Factoriopedia.
Special Thanks
- SafTheLamb for lengthy discussions on the names of the quality tiers.
- Hurricane for their Arc Furnace graphics as used in the Meltdown facility.
