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Obtaining items that unlock any technology but are of a quality above normal does not unlock the technology.

What did you do?
Obtained a non normal version of items that unlock technology

What happened?
Technology did not unlock

What did you expect to happen instead? It might be obvious to you, but do it anyway!
Technology would unlock on obtaining any quality of an item.

Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?
Always happens

Item used as example is the Supercapacitors should unlock science pack for Fulgora but did not on obtain uncommon and rare craft of the item

Can confirm, I specifically began producing Rare quality supercapacitors only to realize the tech wasn't unlocking. It was a bit tedious resetting things to make a single normal capacitor, only to swap things back.

Thanks for the report. I've changed this for the next release so that craft-item technology triggers don't care about which quality is crafted. Mods can optionally say they do care about which quality is crafted - and this might be used in the base game in the future.