[0.17.0] Pick ghost item while crafting

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Riley19280
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[0.17.0] Pick ghost item while crafting

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1. turn ghost pick items on
2. start crafting an item
3. quickly ghost pick the item you are crafting (i.e an inserter)
4. when you finish crafting the item, the ghost you are holding does not get updated, causing you to have to drop the ghost and re-pick the item that you are trying to place.

I find myself waiting for the items to finish crafting and trying to place them but it places the ghost instead even though i have the item.
I could also imagine this happening when robots deliver items to you, but i have not tested that theory.

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Re: [0.17.0] Pick ghost item while crafting

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This is a specific design choice, the ghost entity cursor will always stay as ghost while being used.

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Re: [0.17.0] Pick ghost item while crafting

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Klonan wrote:
Wed Feb 27, 2019 1:56 pm
This is a specific design choice, the ghost entity cursor will always stay as ghost while being used.
This is probably one of the biggest annoyances in regular gameplay, and is a source of constant irritation. I second the original poster in that all this does is constantly make the player A) consciously wait for handcrafting/bot deliveries to finish before you can even swap slots and/or B) have to keep swapping hotbar slot selection. At the very least allow this to be an option (better) or changed with mods (worse).
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Re: [0.17.0] Pick ghost item while crafting

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Reika wrote:
Thu May 21, 2020 5:38 pm
At the very least allow this to be an option (better) or changed with mods (worse).
I would love to see more of these kinds of options made available, even if only via the config file.

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