Spoilage categories would interface well with other not yet implemented mod mechanics so that you could have "refrigerators" for biological spoilage, or "incubators" for hatching type spoilage, or other interactions that should differ between those types.

Edit: nevermind I guess both examples ...

BraveCaperCat wrote: Sun Jun 07, 2026 3:25 pm I feel like this could be implemented in a better way. Instead of a quality_loss property, we'd add a can_reduce_quality property of type bool.

Yes, that's exactly what I meant with the second part of my post.

I like that your suggestion would allow for some interesting twists with the quality mechanic. Earlier I was just thinking of an early game modded building with quality loss to "downcycle" excess quality components. Somewhat like an inverse of a recycler with quality modules.

With your method, you ...

TLDR
I would like a custom maths expression for how much the science durability value of each science pack changes, when the quality of the pack is increased.

Suggestion
Currently each level of quality adds +100% durability to the science pack. durability = 1 + (quality_level)
I would like a ...

Perhaps overlooked, but the alert is quite annoying anytime flamethrower turrets are destroying landmines. It's not just biters that "attack" the mines.