Factory Search


Search your factory for items, fluids, entities, signals, tags and more with Shift + F. Displays a list of matching buildings: clicking on a result opens it in the map. Supports Space Exploration (works across all surfaces). Control + Shift + Click on almost anything (e.g. built entity, inventory item, recipe) to open the search with that item selected. Similar to BeastFinder and Where is it Made?

Utilities
4 months ago
1.1
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b [Not-a-bug] Can't show other surfaces

2 years ago
2 years ago

Unfortunately the game doesn’t allow opening the map on other surfaces, which is why the alert appears in the chat when you attempt it.

You can +1 the API request here in the hopes that the devs implement it: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=68105&p=566871

2 years ago

so how dose it then work on SE ?

2 years ago

Lots of hacks that I'm not currently interested in doing in this mod. Basically it creates a new controller on the target surface, sets your player to control that controller, then opens the map on that surface. You don't have access to your inventory whilst in this state, and if the mod gets anything wrong then you'll be stuck separated from your character, which isn't easy to fix with a mod bug fix update. It is also bad for mod compatibility as the process may cause other mods to crash or misbehave. All of which is 'ok' in a mod like Space Exploration which does these types of things routinely, but I'd rather not do it in a small helper mod like this.

2 years ago
(updated 2 years ago)

1.9.1 contains an integration with notnotmelon's fork of Factorissimo2 to help this situation, see here: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/FactorySearch/discussion/62503406c267e7b1f660dd62

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