Removes red and green wires as craftable items and makes them available as shortcuts, similar to blueprints and planners. Let them clutter your inventory no more! Additionally, adds a shortcut to pick up a copper wire for the rare instances when it's necessary. Also includes a wire cutter selection tool to quickly remove all wires in an area.
Providing the player with new tools or adjusting the game interface, without fundamentally changing gameplay.
Version: 1.1.13 Date: 2023-04-26 Bugfixes: - Fixed that the shortcuts and hotkeys wouldn't work properly with a connection in progress.
Version: 1.1.12 Date: 2023-04-15 Bugfixes: - Fixed that the wire cutter tool could be placed into the inventory; - Fixed crash when using shortcuts when dead.
Version: 1.1.11 Date: 2023-01-24 Changes: - Removed a no longer necessary compatibility feature that prevented spawning wires in the map mode.
Version: 1.1.10 Date: 2022-10-01 Bugfixes: - Fixed a wire cutter incompatibility with LTN due to hidden wires.
Version: 1.1.9 Date: 2022-05-02 Bugfixes: - Fixed crash when Circuit Network technology is removed by a mod.
Version: 1.1.8 Date: 2021-07-09 Bugfixes: - Fixed reported incompatibility with Space Exploration harder.
Version: 1.1.7 Date: 2021-07-09 Bugfixes: - Fixed reported incompatibility with Space Exploration.
Version: 1.1.6 Date: 2021-03-22 Bugfixes: - Fixed reported desync due to conditional loading of components.
Version: 1.1.5 Date: 2021-01-01 Changes: - Removed special compatibility with Industrial Revolution. In case of issues, use "/unlock-shortcut-bar" command Bugfixes: - Fixed incompatibility with Industrial Revolution 2.
Version: 1.1.4 Date: 2020-12-15 Changes: - Wire cutter selection colors adjusted to match the colors of the blueprinting tools. - Extensive internal refactoring. If everthing went right, no changes visible to the user. Bugfixes: - Fixed some copy-paste mishaps in the changelog.
Version: 1.1.3 Date: 2020-12-02 Bugfixes: - Fixed possible incompatibility with other shortcut mods.
Version: 1.1.2 Date: 2020-12-02 Bugfixes: - Fixed that the wire cutter didn't work for the gates.
Version: 1.1.1 Date: 2020-12-02 Features: - Added the wire cutter tool. See mod desription for details.
Version: 1.1.0 Date: 2020-11-26 Features: - Updated for factorio 1.1.0. Bugfixes: - Fixed that red and green wire icons couldn't be selected for blueprint thumbnails.
Version: 0.4.4 Date: 2020-06-11 Features: - Updated item icons to match the new HD icons in the game.
Version: 0.4.3 Date: 2020-05-01 Locale: - Updated German locale, contributed by FI. Bugfixes: - Fixed the cursor clearing check so that red and green wire wouldn't get in the way. - Implemented that red and green wire are also disposed of when placed into the player trash or on the ground.
Version: 0.4.2 Date: 2020-04-30 Features: - Updated for Factorio 0.18.22. Bugfixes: - Fixed a potential loss of items in the rare event the cursor couldn't be cleared.
Version: 0.4.1 Date: 2020-04-10 Bugfixes: - Attempted to fix that hotkey would not respect shortcut unlocks. - Fixed minor internal validation error.
Version: 0.4.0 Date: 2020-01-23 Features: - Updated for Factorio 0.18.
Version: 0.3.174 Date: 2019-10-02 Bugfixes: - Fixed reported migration crash.
Version: 0.3.173 Date: 2019-09-14 Minor Features: - Added compatibility with Industrial Revolution for the copper wire shortcut unlock.
Version: 0.3.172 Date: 2019-07-26 Bugfixes: - Fixed minor issues with the implementation of the wire surrogates. - Fixed the changelog.
Version: 0.3.171 Date: 2019-07-25 Bugfixes: - Changelog typo - Fixed replacing wires with surrogates in recipes.
Version: 0.3.170 Date: 2019-07-25 Features: - Added an option to retain "wire surrogates" in recipes for mods that use them. HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED. Let the wires go! But if you must.
Version: 0.2.179 Date: 2019-07-20 Bugfixes: - Fixed that colored wire wasn't removed from modded recipes if they were defined in a particular way.
Version: 0.2.178 Date: 2019-05-20 Changes: - Disabled wire generation in map mode due to a report that it causes crashes in certain circumstances with other mods.
Version: 0.2.177 Date: 2019-03-17 Bugfixes: - Reported error with removing wire from ingredient.
Version: 0.2.176 Date: 2019-03-16 Locale: - German, contributed by LeByom.
Version: 0.2.175 Date: 2019-03-15 Changes: - Reversed the order of the changelog to improve human readability and respect the convention.
Version: 0.2.174 Date: 2019-03-14 Bugfixes: - Fixed that red and green wire weren't properly removed from ingredients of recipes in the presence of Bob's Electronics and potentially other electronics related mods.
Version: 0.2.173 Date: 2019-03-13 Bugfixes: - Fixed the changelog format to make the in-game parser happy. - Typos in the changelog.
Version: 0.2.172 Date: 2019-03-12 Features: - Remove red and green wire from all recipes (none in vanilla, but sometimes happens in mods, e.g. LTN).
Version: 0.2.171 Date: 2019-03-12 Features: - Added changelog :)
Version: 0.2.17 Date: 2019-03-12 Features: - Shortcut and hotkey to pick up copper wire from the player inventory if available or otherwise give one (1) copper wire.
Version: 0.1.171 Date: 2019-03-12 Changes: - Hotkey to switch color of the currently held wire changed to Ctrl + Tab to avoid conflict with Steam overlay.
Version: 0.1.17 Date: 2019-03-12 Features: - Red and green wire no longer craftable. - Red and green wire disappear from the player inventory if placed there by Q or manually. - Shortcut and hotkey to give a stack of red or green wire. - Hotkey to switch color of wire when holding a stack. Locale: - English, Russian, Ukrainian.