Ghost In Hand


When a last held item is placed (either by you or by your construction robots) normally your hand would be emptied forcing you to pick that item again. This mod changes this behaviour, so that when you run out of items, a held item is replaced with its ghost.

Utilities
2 years ago
0.17 - 1.1
7.70K
Owner:
jarcionek
Source:
https://github.com/Jarcionek/Factorio...
Homepage:
https://github.com/Jarcionek/Factorio...
License:
MIT
Created:
5 years ago
Latest Version:
1.0.6 (2 years ago)
Factorio version:
0.17 - 1.1
Downloaded by:
7.70K users

Description

When a last held item is placed (either by you or by your construction robots) normally your hand would be emptied forcing you to pick that item again. This mod changes this behaviour, so that when you run out of items, a held item is replaced with its ghost.

This solves a very annoying problem, when trying to build something while within logistic network and bots are resupplying the item slowly, so that every few seconds you run out of that item, it gets removed from your hand and you have to pick it again:

See high quality video.

This was reported as bug 68557, but unfortunately the developers consider it an intended behaviour - to give a clear feedback that your item has run out.

Changelog

1.0.5 (18/02/2020)

  • Updated to Factorio version 0.18

1.0.4 (10/04/2019)

  • Added new thumbnail.
  • Added changelog.
  • Fixed a bug which was putting a ghost item in hand, when a player clicked another item on the toolbelt, that they don't have in their inventory (and player had "Pick ghost item if no items are available" enabled).
  • Fixed a bug which was putting a ghost item in hand, when a player clicked that item on the toolbelt.
  • Fixed a bug which was putting robot ghost in hand, when the last robot was placed.

1.0.3 (30/03/2019)

  • Fixed a bug which was putting ghost item in hand, when held item was put in chest, vehicle, logistic trash slot etc. This is now controllable with a "Disable when any GUI open" setting (selected by default).

1.0.2 (30/03/2019)

  • Updated mod's title to contain spaces.
  • Fixed a bug which was putting ghosts of non-building items in hand (such as wires, blueprints, capsules). Now only buildings and tiles are replaced with a ghost.

1.0.1 (29/03/2019)

  • Fixed incorrect homepage link.

1.0.0 (29/03/2019)

  • Initial release.