Helmod: Assistant for planning your factory

by Helfima

Assistant for planning your factory. Can calculate required ingredients, products, machines, modules, and beacons. Can also calculate power production / consumption.

Utilities
a day ago
0.14 - 2.0
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g [Implemented] [Feature Request] Building list for ONLY this layer of production block

2 months ago

Hello!

Recently I've found a slight frustration when using helmod which is that the building count shown is always the current layer of production line PLUS all blocks within.

For example, here's my science build for py2:

https://i.imgur.com/f5VOxMv.png

You can see the building count here: https://i.imgur.com/UGZmYjL.png

However, most of these buildings are contained within the blocks. I would love a way to be able to toggle a button somewhere to JUST see the buildings on this layer of production line.

Basically if you have the following heirarchy:
Production line A
- some recipes
- block B
- - block C (inside block B)
- block D

etc.

I would like to be able to see what is ONLY in production line A. Basically it would be A minus (B & D).

I'm not asking to change default functionality, however. I do also like that you can see the building list for ALL of production line A. But I would like additional functionality to be able to see what is ONLY in A, and subtract all the buildings out that are contained within sub-blocks. The reason is because sometimes you build these sub-blocks maybe somewhere else in your base and deliver the ingredients via trains. Currently, there's no easy way to just see the list of buildings that you need for the current block/line you're looking at if it has sub-blocks too.

Idea: It would be a toggle button somewhere maybe on the main settings line or even just in the preferences menu, you could call it something like "Building display includes sub-blocks?" with a checkbox. The default would be checked, and show the same way it does now. But if you uncheck it, then it would subtract out the sub-blocks buildings/modules and show only what's contained within only A.

Thank you for considering!

a month ago
a month ago

Amazing! Thank you so much!

a month ago

It's not very complicated to do ;)

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