Compact Recipe Pins

by Shemp

A Factoriopedia Favourites panel reminiscent of NEI and The Planet Crafter

Utilities
4 hours ago
2.0
52

i [Implemented] Add machine to mini-recipe list

3 days ago

Would be nice if the mini-recipes list also listed the machines it can be made in. For example the transport belts can be made either in an assembling machine or the foundry.

2 days ago

Where would you want this to be, on the arrow tooltip? For now, remember that you can click on the arrow and it will open the recipe in the reference GUI.

2 days ago

Yeah. Either to the left of the ingredients or to the right of the product. I was thinking more for the fact that you could avoid having to open Factoriopedia at all, and so you could pipette it directly from the recipe rather than finding the machine in your inventory :)

2 days ago

Oh, I misunderstood. So for Transport belts, you would want to add four icons to the mini-recipe which represent "Assembling machine 1", "Assembling machine 2", "Assembling machine 3" and "Foundry"?

I'm definitely not going to add anything which would make mini-recipes longer. I'll consider amending the tooltips.

In development, I was aware that both Helmod and Factory Planner have a feature which allows you to create a blueprint of the Assembling machine with the "Transport belt" recipe in it. The trade-off is that you need to tell those mods which machine you want to use beforehand, or set it as the default for that recipe category. If you don't do that, I have no real way of knowing which machine is "correct".

That kind of advanced configuration is out of scope for Compact Recipe Pins (and way beyond my skill level). You'll just have to open up Factoriopedia and make a pin of the machine.

2 days ago
(updated 2 days ago)

I'm definitely not going to add anything which would make mini-recipes longer.

Yes I know I said this, but I didn't mention anything about an extra line. ;)

I've come up with a rudimentary implementation that's subject to change. It needs to be enabled in the Settings.

a day ago

I like it! Thanks!

4 hours ago
(updated 4 hours ago)

A little update for you, in 0.1.3, using pipette on the machine will now give you a blueprint with the recipe inside, kind of like I discussed on a previous post. (And only on new mini-recipes)

This does have some drawbacks however:
- It's harder to access the assembling machine item (if you wanted to say, change quality with Alt-Scroll)
- Technically it clutters up the clipboard history
- It's a little less convenient in the early-game unless you have a mod to help you place ghosts

Most of the time, I imagine this new behaviour will be useful, so I'll see if I get any feedback about it.

2 hours ago

Sounds nice, though I'd like it to maybe have a way to use quality then? Either look for the highest quality in inventory or have an option to set quality level to use. Could maybe be a small plus and minus sign next to the machines that increases/decreases it?

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