Inserter Flip Indicator


See which way an inserter is flipped—and which input belt lane it prefers. Optional asymmetric base markings show inserter mirroring. Pickup markers in Alt mode or on mouse-over show mirroring and straight-belt lane preference. Keeps vanilla arrows and inserter behaviour.

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Changelog

Version: 0.4.0
Date: 2026-10-25
  Features:
    - Show lane-side markers on underground belt entrances/exits and both halves of splitters, including placed ghosts.
    - Place perpendicular pickup dots on the inserter-facing side of the belt, aligned with the inserter center line.
    - Apply the same near-edge, center-line placement and no-priority-change visibility option to curved belts.
    - Align inventory-input dots with the inserter center line using the same near-side inset, including placed inventory ghosts.
    - Add a per-player "Show pickup indicator when flipping does not affect lane priority" option, covering curves, perpendicular belt pickups, and inventory inputs.
  Other:
    - Preserve preferences from the former Hide option when switching to consistent Show controls.
    - Verify 128 additional underground/splitter lane and centering cases in the installed engine.
Version: 0.3.1
Date: 2026-10-24
  Bugfixes:
    - Apply the inventory-input visibility option to assemblers, furnaces, and other inventory sources, including ghosts.
    - Rename the option to "Show pickup indicator when picking from inventories" while preserving existing saved settings.
Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2026-10-24
  Features:
    - Add per-player settings for Alt-mode pickup indicators, mouse-over indicators, and indicators when picking from chests.
    - Apply chest visibility to both Alt mode and mouse-over, including logistic, linked, infinity, proxy, and ghost containers.
  Other:
    - Apply preference changes immediately and refresh chest inputs on source construction and removal.
    - Keep the brass base marking on its independent startup setting.
Version: 0.2.1
Date: 2026-10-24
  Features:
    - Show the pickup marker on mouse-over even when Alt mode is disabled, independently for each player.
  Other:
    - Refresh hovered markers on entity changes and clean them up on deselection, removal, or player disconnect.
Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2026-10-24
  Features:
    - Add an optional brass marking to all vanilla inserter bases, including Space Age frozen graphics.
    - Add the startup setting "Inserter base marking", enabled by default.
  Graphics:
    - Layer normal and flipped markings over existing platform sprites without changing hand graphics or shadows.
  Other:
    - Preserve the existing Alt-mode indicator and all runtime code unchanged.
    - Add startup-setting, graphics-preservation, rotation/flip, blueprint, and frozen-gallery validation.
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2026-10-24
  Features:
    - Add Alt-mode markers for inserter mirroring and straight-belt pickup lane preference.