Quality crush

Save backpack space by crushing item quality to the lowest level and/or unifying flower colors to a single color. One-click configuration to exclude or include specific items, qualities, and categories.

Quality Smash

🎮 **Stardew Valley Backpack Management Revolution** ✨

🌟Module Introduction

Since crafting from barrels and pickle jars doesn't care about input quality, why not lower the crop quality to basic level, save space in backpacks and chests, and load these machines faster when needed? Run these machines quickly with just one stack!

🎯 Core Functions

**Color Crush** 🌈

• Only affects flowers and eggs
• Changed all flowers in the container (except those excluded in the configuration) to a single color so they can be stacked

**Quality Crush** ⭐

• Reduce all items in the container (except those excluded in the configuration) to minimum quality so they can be stacked

🚀 How to use

**UI Button Smashing (Original Method)**

When interacting with a crate or refrigerator, two buttons appear to the right of the sort/quick stack button:

• **Crush Color Button**: Changes all flowers in the currently open chest/fridge to a single color, then merges the stacks
• **Crush Quality Button**: Reduces all items in the active chest/fridge (except those excluded in the configuration) to the lowest quality and merges the stack

**Keyboard Shortcut Smash (New in 1.1.0)**

• Hold down the 'C' key (color) or 'Q' key (quality) and click on any item in your inventory
• This method works with any container or player inventory
• Quality Crush Using this method will only reduce the quality of the stack by one level

**Auto smash function (new in version 1.5)**

• Automatic color and quality crushing during harvest/pickup
• Activate/deactivate via keyboard shortcut (default F5)
• Automatically deactivate when opening any menu
• There will be a highlight below the farmer as a visual indicator

⚙️ Configuration options

**Basic Settings**

• **Enable UI Smash Button**: Controls whether the smash button is shown or not
• **Enable single item crushing shortcut key**: Enable the use of shortcut keys for single item crushing

**Protection Settings**

• **Ignore Iridium Quality**: Protect Iridium quality items from being shattered
• **Ignore Gold Quality**: Protect gold quality items
• **Ignore Silver Quality**: Protect Silver quality items

**Exception settings**

• **Color Crush Ignore Items**: Specify items that are not affected by Color Crush
• **Quality Crush Ignore Items**: Specify items that are not affected by Quality Crush
• **Quality Crush Ignore Categories**: Specifies the item categories that are not affected by Quality Crush

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💡 **Usage Suggestions**:

• Perfectly solves the problem of multiple ingredients required for cooking taking up a lot of space
• Significantly reduces storage space for crops awaiting processing
• Simplified operations when loading buckets and pickle jars
• Make your farm management more efficient and orderly!

🎨 **Feature Highlights**:

• Supports highly customized filtering system

-A variety of crushing methods to meet different needs

• Intelligent auto-shredding function
• Fully compatible with Stardew Valley version 1.6+