Quality Upcycling Calculator

What do you want to make legendary?

Upcycle this item and keep the legendary ones.

Upcycling

Crafting machine

Machine modules

Recycler modules

Recyclers return 25% of ingredients and take quality modules only (no productivity).

Beacons

Crafter off

Recycler off

Each row is one machine bank's beacons - the leading quality is the tier that bank works on. Speed cuts machine count, but the quality penalty lowers yield.

Recipe productivity cap

% total - Factorio caps recipes at +300%

Unlocked quality (can produce up to)

Keep at / above (untick to recycle a tier)

Items at kept tiers are extracted; lower tiers get recycled back into the loop.

Expected yield

machine quality -

productivity -

recycler quality -

Feed rate normal items / min

Fresh normal-quality items fed into the loop each minute - every /min, /hour and machine count scales from this.

Tier	Yield / input	/ min	/ hour

Yield = expected items of that tier per one normal-quality unit of ingredients fed in. Rates assume the machines keep up with the input.

Productivity vs quality

Loop blueprint

Bot logistics: one crafting bank per quality tier, one recycler bank per recycled tier - sized from the machine counts above. Bring bots; roboports and power are included.
Feed normal-quality ingredients into the logistics network; kept tiers collect in the buffer chests at the bottom.
Beacon rows approximate the configured per-machine coverage. Fluid ingredients are not piped - connect them yourself.