Even Distribution


Modifies CTRL + Click Drag to evenly distribute the items over multiple buildings. Also adds Inventory Cleanup hotkey (SHIFT+C) which evenly distributes unneeded items from inventory into nearby machines.

Utilities
a month ago
0.15 - 2.0
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g Recyclers and modules bad behavior

a month ago

Hi

The behavior of ctrl-drag using modules over recyclers is different than vanilla ctrl+click using modules on recyclers.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR5CCkLJ7uc

Steps to reproduce:
1. Place multiple recyclers without modules in module slots
2. Take quality 3 module and ctrl-drag over recyclers

Expected result:
- 4 quality 3 modules are inserted into the module slots of each recycler, the excess is left in the inventory

Actual result:
- All quality 3 modules are inserted into the input slots of each recycler, none were put into the module slots

I think even distribution should do the vanilla action of ctrl+click but distribute it evenly across affected machines. Instead it forces the modules into the input slots of the recyclers.

More arguments why this should work:
- Ctrl+clicking a recycler, that has 4 modules in the module slots, using modules in hand does not add these modules to the input of the recycler
- In what world is anyone who uses quality 3 modules manually inputting those into recyclers for them to be recycled? At this point we're way past manually inserting ingredients and even distribution is basically exclusively used for distributing modules into module slots
- The mod "Blueprint Sandboxes" has a similar issue where copy-pasting recyclers with modules in the module slots puts them into the input slot instead. A workaround would be to just use even distribution to add the modules after placing, but this also doesn't work and just eats the modules

Thank you for your great work on this mod!

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