Move and rotate most placed entities.
Providing the player with new tools or adjusting the game interface, without fundamentally changing gameplay.
Play it your way.
I would like to rotate the recycler like a combinator, if possible.
Would love to, but see https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=122949
Maybe later when more serious bugs are fixed. Well see
they moved this to "not a bug" so I doubt it will happen.
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