Would it be possible to upgrade items, and keep their dye properties?

change material cost; 5 metal ingot to 10 (raw) metal. Why? Because, you can't really get metal ingot before lvl 25. If you are lucky enough to loot metal pick before that than yes, you can build forge on lvl 20 to get metal ingot but that is still way too late to make idk...upgraded slingshot for example or upgraded cloth or whatever.

@Geckodude11 We're working on that today! Hopefully it will be in the next update.

@Splico You bring up a good point. We'll change the cost to use 10 metal instead of 5 ingots.

Can you add reverse engineering of items to get blueprints from them isnstead of upgrading them?

@STUNT TITS That's a great idea, and one we've been considering, but it would need to be a separate structure or mod. ARK only gives us two buttons on a structure, sadly. Perhaps the Upgrade Station mod will also come with a Blueprint Station. :D

I have noticed that when upgrading an item you don't always get better stats. Would it be possible to add an expensive catalyst item that would guarantee both stats are upgraded per teir in some way for later game survivors? Something rediculously expensive like 50 sweet vegetable cakes 50 flowers 50 mushrooms and 50 black pearl so it wouldn't break the early game balance.

The ability to restrict certain items from being upgraded to promote balance on PvP servers. Saddles and rocket launchers so easily upgraded would just be gamebreaking but having the ability to upgrade your basic tools is less important.

Could you lower the cost for default mode. The server I play on has admins that are too lazy to change the ini file and the stack mods are not high enough to upgrade anything past ramshack, not enough slots in the bench.

How search server with upgrade station i need x5-10max

Great idea and implementation, and i have one suggestion. Completely optional of course, i think many players will find that annoying...
I think it will be good if you can implement some sort of increment per tier, ie:
(Just as an example, i will be using FortuneUpgradeFailedChance=30 and proposed FortuneUpgradeFailedIncrement=10)
1) "Basic" chance to fail, ie what i set in config as 30% (gray -> green).
2) Next tier of the same item (green -> blue) adds FortuneUpgradeFailedIncrement value (10% in my example) chance to fail, so it will be 40
3) ...and so on till "red" tier or whatever we allowed in config.

By default it can be set to 0 so it doesn't affect anything.

That way it will be pretty well balanced - you can upgrade your stuff to some good level (2/3) pretty easily, while upgrading it to max tiers will require some serious effort (and luck)

Also it's not exactly clear how to avoid situations when fail chance can be >=100% (ie FortuneUpgradeFailedChance=50, FortuneUpgradeFailedIncrement=10, MaxUpgradeQualityIndex=5), but if that will be configurable and disabled by default, server admins should take care about calculating max values.

where to craft upgrade station i didnt find it

Hey dude, love the table, any chance of being able to rename it?

This is kind of an issue, but not really a bug and more of a suggestion. I am sure this is not a common issue but, I ran into this issue with the Flaming Sword mod. Part of the crafting requirements is a sword and the item itself counts as a sword in the upgrade station. So if you where to put the required amount of swords to do the upgrade it will consume the newly upgraded item and you will be left with nothing.

Is there a way to have the mod do a check and make sure the item being upgraded is not consumed in the process?

I am sure its a rare occurrence, but I thought i'd let you know.

I love the idea of the upgrade station. I am an admin on my server and in discussions with my server owner, we feel that this provides a little bit of an unbalanced advantage for early game. We run custom levels (200) and what would be nice is if there was a way to control upgrade quality based on player level. Using default game levels of course. Perhpas following the progression of beacon drops. A player would not have the ability to upgrade to a higher quality tier on any item until they progress to a higher level. I was reading through your upgrade calculations, and still could not figure a way to set this up.

The blueprint addition is outstanding... but I may make that engram only avalible at accendent level 70. That way the item can only be blueprinted once a player levels up. This makes it all the more important to take care of that one item you have until you can get the blueprint made to make replacments.

There needs to be a change on how resistance (hypo- and hyperthermal) reacts upon upgrading items. Using everything after [Mastercrafted] will cook you in your armor for the time being, even if you keep walking in the rain or dive for a short time. Horrifically it is using this mod with Scorched Earth DLC...

Can the multiplier being tuned down, or is there a way manually decreasing that mult parameter?