The problem
The tooltip for recipes will show a section "Made in" if the recipe can not be hand-crafted or if the recipe prototype has the flag 'always_show_made_in' set. "Made in" will also be shown in Factoriopedia. This section can become quite crowded in modded games with many different prototypes for assembling machine, chemial plants etc. – and characters:- factoriopedia_chars.png (262.7 KiB) Viewed 123 times
That all available characters are displayed in "Made in" is impractical (list becomes too long, potentially pushing useful information out of the way and making it hard to scan the list) and doesn't really make sense: A character is not a machine. Characters can be placed in the world, but can't be ordered to craft something.
I guess including the character in the "Made in" list was an easy way to indicate that a recipe could be handcrafted. But given that there may be characters based on many different prototypes in the game, it doesn't make sense to include all of them in that list.
Suggested solution
In recipe prototypes, we can set the flag "always_show_made_in" to enforce that all prototypes where the recipe can be crafted will always be shown.I suggest to add a similar flag, e.g. "hide_from_made_in", that can be set in prototypes of characters. (It may even make sense to also add that flag to any machines used for crafting: think of mods that add multiple tiers of the same base thing).
A number of the mods providing new characters depend on my Helper for mods that create new characters. While the character mods just have to define the properties of their characters (mainly animations), my helper mod deals with copying properties from or to the default character. If a "hide_from_made_in" flag was available, I could easily add this flag to any character created with my helper mod – and the "Made in" list wouldn't be spammed with characters any longer.
