Better Quality Players (Player Recycling)


Improves the benefits of being a Quality Player. Also allows the player to jump in a recycler for an alternate way to get quality. Go gamble your life away towards a legendary life!

Content
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2.0 - 2.1
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Factorio: Space Age Icon Space Age Mod
Combat Manufacturing Storage

Changelog

Version: 1.0.7
Date: 14. 07. 2026
  Minor Features:
    - Quality mechanic now applies to the vanilla method of getting quality characters.
  Bugfixes:
    - Removed debug messages from game chat.
    - Fixed a bug where the player could enter a recycler while it was not powered and had to wait some time before being able to die and respawn.
Version: 1.0.6
Date: 14. 07. 2026
  Bugfixes:
    - Players no longer lose their logistic groups upon recycling.
  Balance Changes:
    - Quality characters mine even faster than before.
    - Quality characters are slightly faster than before.
    - Quality characters now have more weapon slots.
    - Quality characters can drop items farther away.
    - Quality characters can attack with their pickaxe from farther away.
    - Quality characters pickaxe does more damage per hit.
    - Quality characters start regenerating health quicker exiting combat.
    - Quality characters can ender vehicles from farther away.
    - Quality characters respawn faster after death. Quality is still lost on death.
  Info:
     - Changed how the crafting speed bonus was applied. It now is applied to the prototype instead of after changing character entities.
     - Vanilla quality player quality is being investigated and currently planning on how to integrate that system with this mod.
Version: 1.0.5
Date: 09. 07. 2026
  Info:
     - Ported to Factorio 2.1.
Version: 1.0.4
Date: 13. 03. 2025
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a bug where not all cases of the output being blocked was being checked when denying entry.
    - Fixed the emergency recycling condition not properly saving the player from purgatory. This should fix cases where the recycler runs out of power causing the player to be trapped forever.
Version: 1.0.3
Date: 13. 03. 2025
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a bug where in multiplayer if another player mined a recycler while it is recycling a player it would have the player trapped in purgatory.
Version: 1.0.2
Date: 22. 02. 2025
  Minor Features:
    - Added a toggle for showing the icon on your own player, toggleable for each player during run-time. This is applied the next time you enter a recycler.
Version: 1.0.1
Date: 20. 02. 2025
  Minor Features:
    - Made the thumbnail slightly less of an eyesore.
Version: 1.0.0
Date: 20. 02. 2025
  Major Features:
    - Initial Release.