I've put this in the right place now: viewtopic.php?f=92&t=49307

Type: Mod Name: Cut and Copy Blueprints Description: Makes it easy to cut and copy sections of the factory and place elsewhere License: MIT Version: 0.1.0 Release: 2017-06-02 Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 0.15.13 Category: (Helper, Item, Convenience) Tags: blueprint, move factory, copy and paste Dow...

Type: Mod Name: Cut and Copy Blueprints Description: Makes it easy to cut and copy sections of the factory and place elsewhere License: MIT Version: 0.1.0 Release: 2017-06-02 Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 0.15.13 Category: (Helper, Item, Convenience) Tags: blueprint, move factory, copy and paste Dow...

In the end I gave up and wrote the mod myself:

https://mods.factorio.com/mods/StevilKn ... yBlueprint

Shift+Click with an empty blueprint in hand creates a Quick Blueprint bypassing the conformation box. You would still have to manually clear it though. Interesting, I didn't know that (hooray for hidden User Interactions!) That certainly helps for the copy situation; clearing the blueprint afterwar...

Might be better to post this here: viewforum.php?f=28 as that's the place for API change requests

I just found: viewtopic.php?f=80&t=4682 Should this be linked under there? I'm not sure it's an exact duplicate of the things on that thread, but it seems related.

AndrewIRL wrote:... inserters take up multiple spots on my toolbelt. ... Not sure your proposal covers inserters though?

Yep - this should definitely work for inserters. I also think that pylons would be an ideal candidate too (as suggested by Ranakastrasz)

Do you think you would be able to set the categories manually, or would the game just have a preset list? I imagine that the categories would be somewhat baked into the object definitions rather than user defined. If a mod added a new type of belt then it would just appear in the list of belts alon...

TL;DR New 'copy' and 'cut' blueprint tools to allow you to quickly move or duplicate a section of factory What ? I appreciate there is a drive towards 'if you can do it already, then don't ask for an improvement even if the current workflow is a pain in the proverbial', however this is not about th...

TL;DR Allow the toolbar to have a single button represent all types of belts, splitters, inserters, pylons etc. What ? I'm going to use belts for the example, but also applies to many other objects in the game. Currently if you want to have yellow, red, and blue belts in the toolbar, they must each...

My grand entrance into the forum with a flourish! Before falling headlong down the spiral stairs as everyone looks on dumbfounded

I'm a little confused - I thought I'd posted this in interface requests. Did I make a mistake or did it get moved here? If it did get moved here, then does that mean that this is already possible? If so, how? Thanks!

I want the player to be able to travel to a new world much like in a campaign (but without pre-authored maps). What's the best way to achieve this? I see that you can create multiple surfaces (though I've not yet worked out how to move the player between them) - but it seems to my that this may be p...

If you want a campaign with random worlds, it would be nice to be able to pass a MapGenSettings table to game.set_game_state() rather than passing the name of the next map to load.

It seems like a sensible extension would be to allow more types in the MapGenSettings autoplace_controls table so that you can include tile types and doodads.