Separate hotkey for putting item in trash slots.

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Separate hotkey for putting item in trash slots.

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Some items will go to logistic trash slots when shift-clicked (mostly wood and ores), others won't, mostly because the game tries to send them to the hotbar instead. The unpredictability of this can cause a lot of frustration. There needs to be an easy keypress-click combination that will send any item to a logistic trash slot, and it should not overlap with anything else. Shift-click has quite a few different things to handle already and does not need more, methinks.
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Re: Separate hotkey for putting item in trash slots.

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I support this. Mainly because I already suggested it.

Admittedly my initial suggestion was to alter shift hotkey to send to trash, but interference makes that a bad idea as was explained. After refining to suggest a new hotkey, nothing else was said.

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Alternate idea. Holding an item, and holding shift when dropping it into the trash slot would quick-transfer all items of that type into trash. Or one stack at a time, similar to dropping into a chest.

Or trash can be changed to work like logistic slots, marking items that the robots take away if you have more than x of them.
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Kovarex has already replied to this on several occasions. The most recent I can remember is here.
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Yep. Same rejection as I got. Which is why I suggested the alternatives.
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It's such a silly business, this halfway implementation. I've posted in the other thread; maybe if enough people chime in on this, something will be done. There needs to be a way to send items to trash slots that works no matter what. Excluding the obvious and far too laborious one of click-drag-dropping the stacks one by one, of course. Hovering over the stack and pressing a key seems like the best way to do it to me.
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Yes. This needs to be added
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Re: Separate hotkey for putting item in trash slots.

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yes, this. its sooo annoying when my inventory is filled with say yellow transport belts i want to get rid of but i have to drag and drop each stack individually. please fix this
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