Compact Recipe Pins
A Factoriopedia Favourites panel reminiscent of NEI and The Planet Crafter.
Remind yourself about anything in Factorio with a single key. Inspect the pins and explore their recipes, so you won't forget what you need.
Pins
Press Z (by default) when hovering over any item, any entity in the world, research technology, or any icon found in Factoriopedia. This will create a pin in the top-left corner.
(Z is shared with the standard Drop item key, so make sure your cursor is empty.)
Left-clickthe pin to open its Factoriopedia page.- Press
Zon the pin to delete it. Ctrl + Left-clickto delete ALL pins.
If you prefer other mods over Factoriopedia, Pins can be configured to open other mod GUIs. Currently, Recipe Book and FNEI are supported.
(NOTE: If you pin something like Water and it has a tooltip of something different like Ice melting (Recipe), this is not a bug. The mod will try to use the first sensible recipe it finds.)
Mini-Recipes
Right-clicking on a pin will show its mini-recipe below the panel, if that pin has a recipe. If you prefer Left-click to do this, mouse controls can be reversed in the Settings.
Left-clickan item in the recipe to open its Factoriopedia page.Right-clickan item to show its own mini-recipe. (You can have lots of them!)- Press
Zto make a proper pin like you would elsewhere. Ctrl-Clickon the Close button to delete all the mini-recipes.
Pipette
Pins and Mini-recipes can be Pipette'd too (default Q). It's a good place to put something if you're out of room on the quickbar. Or store things like signals which can't go on the quickbar.
Copy / Paste
Recipes can be copied from a Pin or any item on a Mini-recipe into assembling machines.
Shift + Right-clickto copy from a pinShift + Left-clickto set the machine recipe
It works on requester chests too!
(These are the same keybinds as Copy/Paste in regular Factorio.)
Quick Craft
Press Ctrl-Q on a pin or mini-recipe item to handcraft a bunch of them (default 5, configurable), just like Cursor Enhancements.
If you have Cursor Enhancements installed as well, it will use the settings from that mod.
Recommended companion mods
- Cursor Enhancements: For full Quick-craft functionality.
- Filter Helper: Adds an item panel to a lot of entity GUIs which allows you to set filters. Useful in a lot of places where Pins are helpful.
- Picker Extended Reborn: Not directly related. Lots of useful features, notably building on to ghosts when you hover an item over them.
Factoriopedia-alternative mods
These mods can be set as the prototype reference when you Left-click a pin. Factoriopedia will still be used as a fallback for anything they can't handle.
- FNEI (or Kuxynator's fork): Has a similar Favourites panel to CRP, so you'll want to access FNEI's Settings in its GUI and turn off "Enable hotbar". Then you can open the FNEI Home screen with
Ctrl-E. - Recipe Book: I haven't used this enough to appreciate the difference, but I'm sure many of you do. :)