Inventory sort order

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Jürgen Erhard
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Inventory sort order

Post by Jürgen Erhard »

I can't find any info on how the game sorts. What's the key the game uses? Name can't be it. Type, and then? Blueprints are jumbled in some fashion, but… well, let's just say that named blueprints should be findable. They aren't. The icons in the icon of a blueprint seem to play a role, but changing them doesn't change the blueprint's place.

So… WTF?

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Re: Inventory sort order

Post by Bilka »

Normal items are sorted by group, subgroup (the groups in the crafting window) and then the order string, a property that you can only find in the lua code of the prototype. Generally items will have the same order as their recipes in the crafting window.
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