[2.0.60] Quality filter of deconstruction planner does not work for items on ground

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[2.0.60] Quality filter of deconstruction planner does not work for items on ground

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Summary
Deconstruction planner does not appear to identify quality correctly when deciding which items on ground to mark for deconstruction.

Context
I'm playing with quality for the first time, and I have gone and done something dumb and started my smelter producing quality base products without anything to pull them out of the main bus first. Now I have quality iron and copper plates polluting the entire factory. I thought this would be an easy fix with a deconstruction planner, filter for "Item on ground" set the quality filter to ">" "Quality: Normal" and it'll mark every item on the ground with any quality more than standard, and I can just vacuum it all up in one fell swoop. This doesn't work however. It turns out that the deconstruction planner considers anything with a quality dot indicator to still be "Normal" quality. It clearly HAS the filters, they should apply correctly.

Details
Mods: None (other than "Quality"? Does that count as a mod, since it's implemented as a mod?)

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Deconstruction planner set to find items on ground with quality GREATER THAN "Normal".
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Deconstruction planner does not mark my rare iron plates.
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Deconstruction planner set to find items on ground with quality EQUAL TO "Normal".
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Deconstruction planner incorrectly marks rare iron plates for deconstruction.
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Re: [2.0.60] Quality filter of deconstruction planner does not work for items on ground

Post by boskid »

I was hesitating about this but given that deconstruction planner configured for entity ghosts respects quality i decided to also make deconstruction selecting items on ground to respect quality.

This is now fixed for 2.0.66.
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Re: [2.0.60] Quality filter of deconstruction planner does not work for items on ground

Post by Malikoth »

Oh my goodness, what an incredibly fast turnaround!!!

I wasn't sure if this was really a bug or if my expectations did not align with your intentions. I understand your hesitation. I just hoped that showing my use case, and the way the UI seems to indicate that it should work, would either lead to the functionality I desired, or my expectations being updated (UI being adjusted not to show quality filters, etc.)

I am elated that you've fixed this, and so quickly! Thank you thank you thank you. :)
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