This is a normal post, regenerate it and trash it about 1000 times for a elite post.
quality is a long game like a megabase. don’t go in thinking you will get a solid amount of quality goods.
I’ve done some artisanal stuff. Create a few blue quality iron, steel, and copper plates and then use those to build out some nicer weapons.
I think the best method early game is quality modules in primary producers, like mining and smelting, and siphon them off for specialized factories of specific products, like personal robots or tanks.
Quality module 2s should make multi-quality factories more worth it.
Quality is an optional feature that gives marginal gains. It’s cool and great for min maxing, but you can ignore quality and still get everything out of factorio
It’s pretty useful for some items like solars
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for the space platform.
and you get the second tier modules right after first rocket so a stack or two of solars produced with full 4x t2 quality modules should give you just enough.
I consider quality to be unlocked with recycling.
At that point it can be automated, making a nice challenge. Then you can let it run away and be a thing to eat your bases resources while you are occupied, and have already researched everything. Very nice for me who likes towaste timetake a lot of time and care in designing parts of my base.Fulgora is the place to be. Running some siphons to grab from your Nauvis production using bits you can get yourself some nice green solar panels for your spaceships. Then you start getting in the big leagues at Fulgora - quality modules on your recyclers and miners and you’ll start getting plenty of blue base ingredients
