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Inserters have a setting to gather based on freshness and prioritize least fresh or freshest; how about an identical setting for Quality, and set it to prioritize moving higher or lower Quality items first? A niche use perhaps, but could be useful, like when feeding tons of stuff into recyclers. Like, prioritize recycling the lowest-Quality stuff first so if you get what you need, you can hang onto the higher quality. Or when unloading something, make sure a particular Quality is used first, like fuel.

I support this idea

Sounds like a neat idea. I suspect it might be a hit to UPS - thinking of a common steel chest, 48 slots, potentially 48 different items of different qualities, so the chest has to be scanned every swing to determine which is the highest or lowest quality item. And how would you handle choosing the most spoiled AND highest quality?

I wouldn't expect it to hit UPS any different than inserter freshness priority, in fact there is only 5 different qualities while the possible freshness% a tad more

I agree that combining freshness and quality would be a problem. maybe have them be mutually exclusive (requiring two inserters in a row to achieve).

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