Quality Asteroids


Asteroids can spawn with varying qualities to add some additional difficulty to your space flights.

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Owner:
PickledCow
Source:
https://github.com/PickledCow/quality...
Homepage:
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License:
MIT
Created:
11 months ago
Latest Version:
1.1.1 (a day ago)
Factorio version:
2.0
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3.33K users

Adds extra challenge to space travel by giving asteroids a chance to spawn at a higher quality than normal.

Configurable settings to adjust the quality rate of each planet; by default is 0 at Nauvis with an increasing factor the farther out from Nauvis you go.

Supports various modded planets, each configurable in the mod settings menu. If a planet you want is missing from this list, leave a discussion post for it and I'll add it in due time.

Also optionally supports additional quality tier mods, no warranties if its too hard though!

Quality asteroids do not drop quality chunks because of current API limitations. I may add that as an option when it becomes viable.

Mechanics

The quality mechanic does not quite work the exact same way as it does with other systems. In the base game, the quality chance only applies to if that item will increase in quality by 1 tier, and each subsequent tier jump is fixed to 10%.

Because it would be lame if most of the asteroids were just Uncommon, this mod slightly changes that behaviour just for asteroids to have the quality chance apply each time.

For example at a quality rate of 0.3:

Quality Chance
Normal 0.7
Uncommon 0.21
Rare 0.063
Epic 0.0189
Legendary 0.0081