Hi, I have 3 questions

1) Why are the items duplicated? I made the belt circle to go over the sink. I put 1 item in there and in a few cycles there were many. Could it be fixed?
2) The quality of the item increases even if the quality is not researched. Could it be configured to disable it?
3) Would it be possible to add quality support for the sink in the configuration? E.g. for a faster belt, HP, eg.

The duplication probably bothers me the most. I expected it to just increase the quality, but it creates a copy and then another copy and exponentially many objects

can you send me a world where if i put one item in the sink it starts duplicating?

I also tried it on the new map and it duplicated there after a while too. It's true that I have another 100+ mods, but nowhere is this problem present and they shouldn't even affect Sink, which has its own logic

I can then try to disable some mods and see, but it seems very strange that they would affect the logic in Sink

if you can, send me a video on my discord, the only thing i currently can imagine would actually cause duplication is if any of the mods force placed inserters into hold instead of pulse read mode, but I'll need a world and video to be sure of what's going on

Yes.. here
https://streamable.com/mj7cos

I have a mod to add custom qualities. So I don't just have the basic 4.

The problem is that Sink still keeps items somewhere in the cache/buffer even if I make it again. It's weird. Which might be the main problem why it duplicates

yes, all the awesome sinks share a per surface per force counter

can you send me the world from the video please?

Save - https://filetransfer.io/data-package/4TKZiqYF#link
Video - https://streamable.com/ti1ckx

I think the problem is the buffer.
I had a 170% chance of another quality. Almost every pass through the belt, the objects split into 2 more.

I don't know how it works for you, I use more mods, but I tried using only vanilla stuff on the map.
I also have about 36 other new qualities, but they will not be significant, because already at the second or third level of quality, 2 objects were created from 1.

aka you want me to cap it at 100% :D

That might be the problem. If the quality chance is higher than 100%, then it is duplicated. A cap of 99.99% is required here. If that's what it's really about.

At least add it to the configuration, but I doubt that anyone would want to duplicate it on purpose :)

And even if I don't have researched technology for higher quality, it is ignored here

basically how the mod works is that for each item sinked the quality % gets added to a total, and for each 100 reached you get an item, I'll just have to make it award 100 points max per item

Certainly, because if I enable quality modules to have quality, then there is no problem to get above 100% chance :)

Feel free to add this to the settings, whether to allow duplication above 100% or not.

And please add a setting to disable the quality increase when the next quality is not researched. This is needed, otherwise it is possible to have maximal qualities quite easily right from the start

And if it is possible to increase the speed of the belt to Sink, at least over configuration.

Otherwise it's a good mod ;)

100% limit and "quality not yet unlocked" check added

i don't think I'll add better belt speed, i kinda meant it as a balance measure to make sure you couldn't just have 1 sink with the best modules but kinda had to choose which sinked items you care the most for, though you can use stack inserters

Great thanks ;)

The belt speed - I meant that there are faster belts and loaders in the game and Sink uses the speed of the slowest one. At least the speed of the Express belt would be enough... the point is that everything around is faster than Sink

yes, but if more items per second would fit into the awesome sink you'd need less modules for the awesome sink, it is by design that i only allow yellow belts, the thing is 1x1 so its not like you cannot easily build more of them

That's true, but if the chance of higher quality is close to 100%, the slow belt is more of a nuisance, but OK