Quality Degrader

by againey

Facilitate early-game quality with a machine that downgrades quality items by a single quality level. It's like manufacturing with mixed quality ingredients, but only if you manage the logistics puzzle effectively.

Content
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Manufacturing

Changelog

Version: 0.2.0
Date: 27. 06. 2026
  Changes:
    - Degrader recipe takes burner mining drill and quality modules, fewer other ingredients
  Features:
    - Support for multiple independent quality sets
  Bugfixes:
    - Degrader will determine output slot count after all quality prototypes have been loaded
  Modding:
    - Can explicitly generate degrading recipes for non-recycling recipes
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 24. 06. 2026
  Features:
    - Initial release
    - The degrader, a 2x2 burner furnace for running quality degrading recipes
    - Quality degrading recipes for all recyclable items to decrease quality by one level
    - All technologies that unlock quality amended to also unlock the degrader