Modern Upgrade

Efficiency Modules

Modern Upgrade with great efficiency increase.

Notes

Modern Upgrade is a Modern-tier Efficiency Module, a general-purpose upgrade that improves a crafting station's efficiency with a "great efficiency increase" per its description. Like all modules in Update 14, it installs into a compatible station's module slot rather than having a numbered tier, and its exact bonus is described on the module itself. It is produced via the Modern Upgrade recipe and stacks to 100, so surplus units can be stored or traded for other players' stations.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Basic (none)Basic Upgrade (−10% cost · −5% labor · −25% time)Advanced (none)Advanced Upgrade (−10% cost · −10% labor · −35% time)Modern (none)Modern Upgrade (−15% cost · −10% labor · −50% time)

Self Improvement level 0Skill level changes labor only.Reset to base

Quantity to craftScales ingredients, labor, time, output & total raw by the number of crafts.

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Metallurgy Research Paper Modern	2	item
Agriculture Research Paper Modern	2	item
Culinary Research Paper Modern	1	item
Modern Research	5	category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Garbage	≈ 0.28
Bio Residue	≈ 0.16

Approximate — a category ingredient's salvage value depends on the item actually used.

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	4500 calories
Craft time	6 min
Throughput	≈ 10 Modern Upgrade / hour (base)

As an upgrade module

• -15% Resource Cost when crafting.
• -10% Labor Cost when crafting.
• -50% Craft Time when crafting.

How the Update 14 module system works

Recycling & waste

• 1× Garbage

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 3047.19× Iron Ore
• 600× Limestone
• 400× Huckleberries
• 400× Natural Fiber (any)
• 224× Wood (any)
• 141× Crushed Limestone
• 140.1× Clay
• 90× Quicklime
• 82.81× Silica (any)
• 80× Electronic Scrap
• 40× Rice
• 40× Wheat
• 38× Fertilizer Filler (any)
• 32× Crab Carcass
• 28× Beet
• 28× Bio Residue
• 20× Crop Seed (any)
• 20× Crushed Rock (any)
• 20× Raw Food (any)
• 18× Oil (any)
• 17.5× Copper Ore
• 10× Baked Vegetable (any)
• 10× Spoiled Food
• 9.6× Bison Carcass
• 8× Hare Carcass
• 8× Metal (any)
• 6× Salad (any)
• 5× Modern Research (any)
• 4× Fat (any)
• 3.33× Steel Bar
• 3× Fried Vegetable (any)
• 2× Campfire Salad (any)
• 2× Rebar

Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

• Modern Module
• Product
• Upgrade

Obtained from

• Modern Upgrade

See also

Advanced Baking UpgradeAdvanced Cooking UpgradeAdvanced Masonry UpgradeAdvanced Smelting UpgradeAdvanced UpgradeAdvanced Upgrade 1