Compact Recipe Pins

by Shemp

A Factoriopedia Favourites panel reminiscent of NEI and The Planet Crafter

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Created:
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Latest Version:
0.1.2 (a day ago)
Factorio version:
2.0
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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-click the pin to open its Factoriopedia page.
  • Press Z on the pin to delete it.
  • Ctrl + Left-click to 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-click an item in the recipe to open its Factoriopedia page.
  • Right-click an item to show its own mini-recipe. (You can have lots of them!)
  • Press Z to make a proper pin like you would elsewhere.
  • Ctrl-Click on 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-click to copy from a pin
  • Shift + Left-click to 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. :)

Troublesome mods

  • Ultracube: Deliberately turns off Factoriopedia for most things in the game. Use FNEI alongside it.
  • Any mod which augments Copy/Paste functionality will have unintended interactions with Compact Recipe Pins. You can turn off CRP's Copy/Paste in the Settings.