Wire Shortcuts

by daydev

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.

Utilities
11 months ago
0.17 - 1.1
35.9K

Changelog

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.