Changelog

Version: 0.10.3
Date: 2026-07-01
  Changes:
    - Remove deprecated legacy recipe prototypes and their technology unlocks. Legacy items and entities will remain until 1.0.0.
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix down-bin recipes being generated for hidden items.
    - Fix missing locale keys on generated recipes for placeable items.
    - Add missing recycler recipes for down-bins.
    - Fix down-bins and recipes not being generated for quality levels unlocked at start of game.
    - Fix down-bins not being unlocked by all technologies that unlock a quality when multiple technologies unlock a quality level.
    - Fix items used only in parameter recipes being treated as down-binnable.

Version: 0.10.2
Date: 2026-06-27
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix failure to generate down-bins when quality mods insert intermediate levels, such as in Quality Plus.
    - Fix failure to properly apply modded quality icons with multiple sprites, such as in Quality Plus.

Version: 0.10.1
Date: 2026-06-27
  Bugfixes:
    - Remove test object.

Version: 0.10.0
Date: 2026-06-27
  Major Features:
    - Complete functional overhaul.
    - Auto-generation support for modded quality levels or alterations to base quality levels.
    - Down-bins now only handle items that can be used as ingredients and will not preserve item data, except freshness in accordance with normal crafting rules.
    - It is no longer possible to prematurely remove an item before it has been down-binned.
    - When more than 7 quality levels are present, down-bins are moved to a separate tab to avoid cluttering Logistics item list.
  Changes:
    - New items renamed to "Down-bins" and recipe changed to 8 steel plates, consistent with the logic that you are just putting items into a box with a different label.
    - Legacy script-based down-binners will continue to function but can't be crafted. They will be removed at some later version.

Version: 0.9.1
Date: 2026-06-25
  Bugfixes:
    - Exclude items with inventory from being down-binned.

Version: 0.9.0
Date: 2026-06-25
  Changes:
    - Raise Factorio version to 2.1.

Version: 0.8.5
Date: 2026-06-25
  Bugfixes:
    - Exclude items with inventory from being down-binned.

Version: 0.8.4
Date: 2026-06-25
  Bugfixes:
    - Add missing on_entity_cloned trigger.

Version: 0.8.3
Date: 2026-06-25
  Scripting:
    - Add quality-down-binning-rebuild command to force rebuilding list of placed down-binners as a last resort.
  Bugfixes:
    - Add down-binner list rebuild on configuration change. Hopefully this will make it robust in games with lots of mods.

Version: 0.8.2
Date: 2026-06-25
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix entity icon not properly rendering in Upgrade and Destruction planners.

Version: 0.8.1
Date: 2026-06-25
  Compatibility:
    - Add opt out from Packing Tape for down-binners. This fixes an interaction bug in which down-binner ghosts would demand their packed version from the logistics network.

Version: 0.8.0
Date: 2026-06-24
  Major Features:
    - All item data should now be preserved across down-binning in the way you'd expect, including modded items. Even if you create a quality blueprint for some reason.
  Changes:
    - Preserve item damage.
    - Preserve tool durability, capped to the lower quality's maximum.
    - Preserve spoilage/freshness, capped to the lower quality's maximum freshness.
    - Preserve ammunition count.
    - Preserve item tags and custom descriptions for items-with-tags.
    - Preserve vehicle and locomotive entity data (label, color, logistics settings, targeting).
    - Preserve blueprint and blueprint book contents (including recursive book contents).
    - Preserve deconstruction planner and upgrade planner configurations.

Version: 0.7.0
Date: 2026-06-24
  Features:
    - Add handling of armor and vehicles with grids, including those added by mods. Items with empty grids will be down-binned, items with non-empty grids will not.

Version: 0.6.1
Date: 2026-06-24
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix memory leak from down-binners not being properly cleaned up on destruction.
    - Fix down-binners using the wrong inventory move sound.

Version: 0.6.0
Date: 2026-06-23
  Locale:
    - Add Chinese locales.
    - 添加简繁中文本地化。

Version: 0.5.0
Date: 2024-11-09
  Changes:
    - Add fail-safe for items with modded quality levels other than the base levels. In such a case, the down-binner will have no effect.

Version: 0.4.0
Date: 2024-11-09
  Changes:
    - Update to anticipated breaking changes to mod API in 2.0.16.

Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2024-11-03
  Changes:
    - Hide alt info on down-binners. While sub-optimal, this is necessary to prevent excessive icon flashing with how they are currently implemented.

Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2024-11-01
  Changes:
    - Down-binners will now refuse to down-bin the following items: tank, spidertron, modular armor, power armor, power armor mk2, and mech armor.

Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2024-10-31
  Changes:
    - Initial release.
    - Implement quality down-binners.