Downgrade Port


A small building that reduces the quality level of inserted items, allowing you to use recipes with mixed quality ingredients.

Content
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2.1
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Changelog

Version: 1.0.1
Date: 2026-06-30
  Changes:
    - Unhid all downgrade recipes in factoriopedia
    - Moved downgrade recipes to a new recipe tab
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed strange icon scaling for downgrade port entity
Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2026-06-27
  Features:
    - Initial release
  Changes:
    - All changes are relative to the 2.0 implementation of the downgrade port for Inverted Quality
    - Increased recipe cost per downgrade port from 5 iron plates to 5 iron plates and 2 iron gears
    - Allowed speed, efficiency, and pollution module effects from modules, beacons, or surface effects
    - Added a module slot to the downgrade port
    - Downgrade port will require 100kW of heating energy on planets with freezing
    - Reduced stack size from 100 to 40
    - Slowed all downgrading recipe times from 0.0666 sec to 0.8 sec
    - Removed active runtime scripting by using `ProductPrototype.quality_change`
    - Reduced recipe complexity by creating a single recipe per item instead of one for each quality level
    - Added a mod setting to make downgrade ports use electricity