Hi!
There is a suggestion to change the main group and highlight it separately in the crafting menu, so that the main tab is not so long with a list of recipes.
As an example, there is a mod https://mods.factorio.com/mod/underground-pipe-pack, in which the recipes are highlighted in a separate group, which is very convenient in terms of navigation and searching for a recipe.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wvUIdp02ctdof1TiUCdZdOfBT6GMk6aE/view?usp=sharing

Maybe you can combine your mods into this group?
There are a lot of colored pipes, and a separate tab will suit them :)

There's another thread where this is addressed as well: Some small suggestions

The author stated the following there:

I am also working on creating artwork for the crafting tab, so once that is complete and I'm happy with it I will move all the color coded pipes to their own section of the recipe gui. I don't have an ETA for that yet, but I'm working on it and am glad to hear that there is interest/demand for it :)

A separate tab would be great, indeed, and as Advanced Fluid Handling has a non HD sprite for the tab, it looks kinda blurry.

Two comments about that to @asher_sky though:

• If creating separate category artwork is a lot of work or takes very long, an alternative/intermediate solution might be to just inject the color coded (and maybe the originals as well) into the Advanced Fluid Handling category
• If/when your are done with the separate category artwork, could you consider pulling other stuff into it as well, at least from the mods you support directly, as well as Advanced Fluid Handling stuff and I guess also the regular pipes, pumps, tanks, so all fluid related stuff would be in one category, instead of e.g. in my case spread over 3 category tabs (Logistics, Color Coded and Advanced Fluid Handling)? I'd advocate to keep trains, towers, chemistry labs, refineries and such where they are, however.

Cheers and thanks!

Boss, we are looking forward to moving the pipes to the new group :)

It's done 🫡

I moved all the color-coded pipes to their own crafting tab. I also added a mod setting to move the base versions to the new tab as well :) Great ideas, thank you!

Great! Thanks for the update!
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Houston! We have a problem! :)

Can you write me some code here so I can make changes locally to move all the remaining pipes to a new group? Or at least tell me where to do it?

More accurately, now I have to switch between two tabs, since the regular pipes are there too (and a few more), and the pipes that some other mods add are still there.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CbNq374FlA00EbyPhGDDmD3v2RAiDh11/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w1nXZ1OQTxBdteAV1aPZqNbPwoSNlA6e/view?usp=sharing