Howdy, One of the best things about Far Reach was being able to have your resources produced where you produce them and reach across the map in map mode to retrieve them and build things. In 2.0, it doesn't seem as if this is possible. They've significantly increased the ghosting and planning capabilities at the expense of building and with a mod like Far Reach, being able to retrieve or deposit resources. It would be awesome if this normal functionality could be returned to the game. I figure this mod might be the right place to do it.

I miss that as well, I use this mod to get rid of the "oh I forgot to bring rails/turrets/whatever" walking a long time minigame :-)

Hey, thanks for your suggestions.

Just to be sure, you are asking to enable access to containers from map mode?
If the Factorio devs disabled this, I'm not sure whether they added the possibility to reenable it to the modding API, but I'll have a look into it.

Unfortunately, accessing things from "Remote View" is not possible at all anymore. Sorry.

oh snap. i really liked that.
thank you very much for your efforts

Yes, the Remote View Far Reach capabilities are gone and I miss that. I play to build, not to drive around the map to access my chests. grief

I Love Far Reach by the way. Thank you.

I'm starting to get sick running up and down the map because I needed more copper plates or steel to because I need a handful of things. The devs were being hostile when they shut it down in Remote View.

Should mention that I love what they've done in 2.0 Just this one little thing with Remote View (Grrrrrrrrrr)

How do I delete this?

I'm starting to get sick running up and down the map because I needed more copper plates or steel to because I need a handful of things. The devs were being hostile when they shut it down in Remote View.

Should mention that I love what they've done in 2.0 Just this one little thing with Remote View (Grrrrrrrrrr)

Yes. And the stupid Ghosts, and the new position in the UI for the Alerts.
Bit there are many many new things I like.

I wonder if this is a thing one needs to request from the Developers the ability to mod this for Remote (Map) View.

I'm starting to get sick running up and down the map because I needed more copper plates or steel to because I need a handful of things. The devs were being hostile when they shut it down in Remote View.

Should mention that I love what they've done in 2.0 Just this one little thing with Remote View (Grrrrrrrrrr)

Yes. And the stupid Ghosts, and the new position in the UI for the Alerts.
Bit there are many many new things I like.

I wonder if this is a thing one needs to request from the Developers the ability to mod this for Remote (Map) View.

I guess that would be the only path open to retrieving this feature for the purpose of modding Far Reach. But I'm guessing they may be going flat out with what might be considered more important issues.

My work around is a Spidertron mod that expands the grid it has and placing a Creative Mod reactor (only need 1) into it and loading it with exoskeletons. I can cross a fairly large map in seconds to pick stuff up and dump stuff - still trying to keep the robot traffic low. I have about 36 exoskeletons in the grid and it lays rubber (lol) when I take off. The trick is to remember to be a passenger when you send it on a long trip.

There is a minor work around - at least for items in a chest or vehicle. You are halfway across a mega map and you forgot to pick up 500 Fast Inserters and the camel you hired to carry equipment for you hasn't got any fast inserters. Imagine if you could drop in on your mall through remote view and grab the whole box of fast inserters and put them in a box or rail car or spider or car parked beside you over on the far side of your mega expedition.

Now you can

Install mod "Inventory Mover"
TAB to Remote View of your Mall
Ctrl-Shft+RightMseButton
exit out of Remote View and back to where you are building a thirst in the desert
Ctrl-Shft+LeftMseButton on a chest, car, rail wagon, or camel, and you now have a full box of fast inserters. If you only wanted 100 it's easy enough to leave 400 in the chest and reverse the steps to put the 400 back in the mall.

Hey Fexx,

Wanted to say thank you for looking into this. Also, great suggestion mikerosoft666. Not sure why else that mod would ever be used, but works as a work around for this issue, albeit a bit clunkier.

--MickeyD212121