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Friday Facts #375 - Quality (factorio.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Quality of items in the expansion!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am happy that you can avoid quality. While this seems to be a great feature, having two or three different kinds of each item occupy separate inventory spaces would surely make the game a lot more complicated for less experienced players. I do see using it myself though, but I feel like I would need a really mature base before I try anything more than equipment.

What I didn't get: do miners also produce higher quality ores when loaded with quality modules? And smelters?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seems like it applies to crafting only, like assembly machines and furnaces.

The quality module has a special effect, which increases the probability of getting higher quality results when crafting in a machine.

Which makes sense. That would be weird to mine "legendary" iron ore, but I can understand crafting a "legendary" iron plate, which is super finely crafted to high standards.

And I completely agree with you about leaving that tech for later. Especially that it seems to be super resource-wasteful to kick start. This alone should prevent new players from fiddling with it.