This mod is great, but an obvious feature I expected it to have was arrow alerts that give me a direction to run in. If I'm looking for something, I probably want to go there, and an arrow would cut out the step of finding myself in relation to the thing I've just found on the map.

That is totally obvious now that you mention it! Not sure why it hadn’t occurred to me before…

I’ll definitely implement this

Great! If you'd ping me when it's added so I can update to the latest version I'd appreciate it!

Hey, I've implemented this and if you want to try it before release, you can download the latest version from the GitHub. Otherwise I'll post again when it releases properly in a few days. Due to limitations in the mod API it only works from the player character and doesn't work in map view or Space Exploration navsat view. An alternate solution (that I'm still considering) would be to trigger an actual alert, but then the player would have to hover the mouse over the alert to show the arrow.

You can install https://mods.factorio.com/mod/BetterAlertArrows if you want a better arrow image - I might find/make my own arrow image before release (let me know if you have suggestions).

I also need to make it work with Jetpack mod: currently the arrow disappears as soon as you enter start the jetpack.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/306402592265732098/981776570471579729/Screen_Recording_2022-06-02_at_05.28.26.mov

Just released in v1.7.0 :)

Always open to suggestions though

Works great. I expected it to be on the border edge as all other alerts are, but where it is is fine. Could you make the duration the arrow/boxes persist a configurable setting?

One side note, with Jetpacks (from SE) the arrow disappears every time you start/stop jetpack, but given my knowledge of how jetpack works (It destroys your character entity every time and makes a new one I think) I don't think that's possible for you to fix.

Also, with the arrow alert, I don't know that I terribly want it to bring up the map when I click on it. I find myself clicking on the thing to create the arrow, then immediately closing the map every time so I can fly there. Might be personal preference, I'm not a UX expert by any means.

It isn’t possible to make it go at the edge of the screen, yeah. I’ll add a duration setting.

I can fix the Jetpack thing, it just requires a bit more work that I haven’t got around to yet :)

You can right click on the search results to not open the map, I think that’s what you’re wanting? (The tooltips explain this)

You didn't think I had time to read the tooltips, did you? :-)

That's great, thanks.

Jetpack bug and highlight duration setting both done in v1.8.0 :)