I find myself endlessly frustrated by not being able to put the factory "display chest pair" thingy to anything I want, such as things I have not produced yet (in an angel-bob-space exploration game, that is maybe 500 items or something??), don't have on me at the time, or is a liquid/gas so you can't put it in a chest (unless you barrel it first making it minuscule). Or in the endgame, placing a priceless object in the factory's display chest... GEEZ

I'm hoping we can set any solid/liquid/gas we like the way we do it for splitters or signals.

UGLY WORKAROUND: text plate mod.

Having those chests behave like combinators seems like a no brainer.

As long as we can display any icon the game has (inventory-placeable, liquid icons, no-unlock-necessary items, object types unlocked via tech, steam, water, pick an icon by internal name to cover any forgotten cases, etc)

New combinator-based overlays are already implemented on my dev branch and will be releasing soon. They support anything that can be used as a signal, however it will not be possible to update them automatically through the circuit network.