... input field, and then either press 'E' or click the green check button. This requires the user to have to go back and forth between the mouse and keyboard, causing some UX friction.

It would be great if you could hold a modifier key like CTRL before pressing 'E' to force confirm the GUI window ...

TL;DR
Ability to add/edit additional keyboard shortcut to common UI elements.

What?
This started off with a google and mod portal search for seeing if there was a way to, with a key press, select the gear button to change the recipe in a placed building that already has a recipe set, without having ...

Space Platforms have a "pin" button in their title bar, next to the close button.

This button should be added to Cars and Tanks as well, as they are commonly pinned, and the Alt-Rightclick shortcut isn't really documented anywhere outside of the keyboard controls.

This is just a minor QoL change.

... showed up until I added my first pin, and then disappeared forever.

Of course, if someone only uses this button to add a pin (instead of the keyboard shortcut), that causes an issue.

Is there a tutorial about adding pins? Maybe that would solve the problem without needing an extra button to ...

... to turn the visualization on, view it, then turn it back off.

Alternatively in 2.1, you have to point at the pipeline, find the hotkey on your keyboard, then press it twice to turn it on and off.

In 2.0, you only have to point at it.

By sentence length alone, you can see which is the most ...

... as I switched over to a Steam Deck for games. But I feel that a few things could be done to improve the flow of using a controller.

-Add the Keyboard keybinds for commonly used quick actions under controller keybinds. Obviously not everything can fit on a controller scheme, so most actions were ...

... type of item that just outputs whatever is being produced by the assembler at the time

Why?
QoL: It would streamline a very common action

Currently this takes about 8-11 keypresses assuming you don't accidentally hit the wrong item, plus having to move back and forth between keyboard and mouse

... which machines are working and which are not.

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Possible solution - Add an Andon Light button on the keyboard, similar to the Alt button that shows recipes sturcture is running. When clicking on a unit, there is already a status light shown, so it is in ...

... the W and S or A and D cancel each other out and no running occur at all.

I believe this has been mentioned in another post, and it was something to do with the keyboard priorities so may even work differently depending on hardware and/or OS.

One option is to not press competing directional keys. :D

... I suppose if anything, I could ask whether Escape or Pause could be used to interpret intra-tick processing. I suspect that the engine polls the keyboard and wouldn't happen to see it down if the key wasn't held down the entire time the 25 chunks were being generated. This seems like a very narrow ...

Click and drag would be a lot more discoverable than hit random button on the keyboard while hovering over the the signal. There's just nothing in the UI that tells you or teaches you that you can do this.


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The "Tips and Tricks" dialog's fourth entry "Entity pipette ...

Click and drag would be a lot more discoverable than hit random button on the keyboard while hovering over the the signal. There's just nothing in the UI that tells you or teaches you that you can do this.

TL;DR
Add lighting support to Keychron keyboards, like SteelSeries or Razer keyboards already have


What?
I don't really know what I can add here since it's a pretty simple suggestion. I did a quick research and I found that Keychron keyboards are programmable with something called "QMK".

Why ...

... view and this did somewhat help. Still not perfect, though.


How did you do that? I cannot find the corresponding settings :(


Settings --> Controls --> Make sure you are in the 'controller' controls, not the 'keyboard and mouse' controls --> Cursor stick sensitivity slider. Slide it to the left.

... that's hardcoded, I guess?


The advantage of hitting E in most other situations is that it allows you to keep your hand on the left half of the keyboard.

It's possible to type '2e1' for '20', '2e2' for '200', etc. and being able to finish typing a number without having to reach across to Enter ...

... that's hardcoded, I guess?


The advantage of hitting E in most other situations is that it allows you to keep your hand on the left half of the keyboard.

It's possible to type '2e1' for '20', '2e2' for '200', etc. and being able to finish typing a number without having to reach across to Enter ...

... be a thing?


It does remember it through sessions what I'm saying is you maybe click alt unknowingly and toggle it back to default from the alt view. It happened to me a lot when I got a new keyboard so might be happening to you? I've never had issues with the alt mode not saving session to session.

... I think that this should become unlocked to allow any buttons being bound together. Ex, binding A+B to copy.

Why?
Factorio was built around a keyboard and mouse, and as such there are an endless amount of key-binds and key-combinations that a controller player will never have access to. Being ...

[Koub] Merged several threads with the same or a similar suggestion.

BlueTemplar wrote: Tue Oct 07, 2025 12:34 pm [...]

Sorry BlueTemplar, you did a good job synthetizing all these posts I dah previsously missed, our initiatives just collided.

TL;DR
Pressing these keyboard shortcuts would order the train or space platform to immediately go to the previous/next station in their list.

What?
Importantly, you would NOT need to open the Locomotive view / Space platform hub to give that order.

Some gameplay implementation questions :
Would ...