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I finally got a decent amount of non-Normal quality basic ingredients and wanted to craft (via High Quality recipe, not Quality Modules) Explosive Rockets for my tank. One of their ingredients is High Quality Explosives (Sulfur + Coal + Water). Water, as a fluid, is ignored for Quality, but Sulfur is not. When trying to produce a High Quality Sulfur in a Chemical Plant, Quality is grayed out, stating, "Sulfur has no item ingredients, therefore it does not support quality."

The recipe in the Explosives Chemical Plant shows the colored pips on the Sulfur icon and will not accept Normal Quality Sulfur.

Is there anything that produces High Quality Sulfur? Maybe I am missing some later recipe that does it? If not, the game should either ignore Sulfur Quality (like Fluids) or it should include the option to produce whatever Quality Sulfur we want in the Chemical Plant.

There are more recipes that do not require fluids, like the one on Gleba, where you can quality it for sure. But also, I tried it in my oil setup to insert quality modules into the Chemical Plant and it works perfectly fine.

Yes, you can get lucky and get some by using quality modules.

You cannot select a quality recipe's for Sulfer in the Chemical Plant. Thus you can only create Sulfer via modules. Is this as intended? Little awkward and frustrating.

There is also an option of making a contraption for recycling sulfur (this processed about 8k normal sulfur into one legendary sulfur) or one for processing asteroid chunks (this processed about 500 normal chunks into one legendary carbonic chunk i.e. 2 legendary sulfur)