A crafting-menu tab that gathers the signage plates — Text Plates and Display Plates — instead of leaving them buried at the bottom of the Logistics tab.

Unlike the usual one-mod-per-group patches, the tab's content is driven by startup settings: any other mod's plates can be pulled in from the mod settings menu, without touching a line of Lua. Startup settings are read at load time, so a change applies on the next prototype reload — you edit it from the menu, not mid-save.

Text Plates and Display Plates are optional dependencies: the mod loads fine with only one of them installed, or with neither. A subgroup named in the settings but absent from the game is skipped, with a line in the log.

Settings (startup)

• Subgroups to move — default textplates, display-plates. A comma-separated list of item-subgroup names moved into the tab. This is the clean path: use it whenever the target mod declares its own subgroup.
• Individual items to move — empty by default. A comma-separated list of item names, for mods that declare no dedicated subgroup. They land in a catch-all subgroup at the end of the tab.
• Group order string — default d-b. Decides where the tab sits among the others; d-b places it after Combat and before Fluids.

To find a third-party mod's subgroup name, look the item up in Factoriopedia, or grep the mod's data.lua for item-subgroup.

Changing a startup setting forces a prototype reload, so leave the save, adjust, and reload. An existing save takes the change without trouble — nothing here depends on the group at runtime.

Credits

Text Plates by Earendel and gheift; Display Plates (Forked) by Kingfisher95 and Flydiverny. This mod is an independent work, not affiliated with either. English and French locale. MIT licensed.