Promethium is Quality


Give promethium asteroid chunks another purpose. Turn them into a catalyst for refining an item's quality at no loss.

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g [Implemented] Feature Request

6 months ago

When using mods that alter % of quality 100% doesn't mean 100% next quality,
Can you add an option to allow quality in the modules slots and accept quality from beacon if they can have quality ?
Or
Can you make it that it transform an item to the next quality 100% chances but it take like 2x the fluid if the chance to get next quality is 50% (3x -> 33% etc) ?
https://i.imgur.com/wEoNyh8.png

6 months ago

Hey, sorry for the super late reply.

Technically even in base game the claimed 100% doesn't mean always uncommon from normal. There's still 10% for rare, 1% for epic, 0.1% for legendary to appear when you roll it, so you actually go normal->uncommon only 88.9% of the time. What Refinery is meant to do is upcycle an already crafted item at no resource loss.

So mod description is inaccurate, it should say

It has a base quality effect of +100%. Out of the box, it directly upgrades an item to at least the next quality level, with no resource loss.

which I didn't think to change when it was mentioned earlier. And because of how chances on quality work and what we have available for modding, there's no (easy) way to guarantee that a roll in the Refinery will always be of exactly next quality. Even a mod like No More Gambling can't and it's the closest you can get to it.

I didn't like the idea of allowing quality module effect on it, but I'll make it a mod option if changes in your modlist happen to need it

6 months ago

Yes if you could add that option to enable quality module in it that would be cool, because if you want 100% of legendary->mythic in my modpack you need 1000% quality and you can get it with modules and specialized beacons.

6 months ago
(updated 6 months ago)

It was added in 0.8.17. It needs Factorio 2.0.35 which is in experimental, you'll need to opt-in to experimental updates for the time being

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