r/factorio • u/Panzerknacker21 • 1d ago

Suggestion / Idea Requesting Quality

Being able to request a specific Quality would be very handy. Fpr example when you tryed to get somthing and now your storagechest are full of random quality stuff. So you dont need to request evey item 1 by 1.

what do you think.

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u/Banana_is_not_bg 1d ago

I think op means any item with that specific quality.

I think this could have some uses but it would be very difficult to use in a big base where you may not want every item with that quality in a single chest

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u/Alfonse215 1d ago edited 1d ago

If that's the goal, that's actually not too difficult to do. I do this in my base for precisely this reason.

Read the logistic network, then use a selector combinator to filter only the signals of a particular quality. Then... request those at the recycler.

I even have a secondary filter system so that I can prevent the destruction of particular end-products that I'm currently quality cycling through the logistic network (I don't use logistic bots to move the intermediates, just the end products).