Reorder fluids, barrels and oil recipes

[ickputzdirwech]

I made some screenshots with a custom mod to show you what I mean.

Let's start with the fluids. It's actually not that bad right now:

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But why is steam in between crude and heavy oil? Steam is the second fluid you obtain in the game and is very closely connected to water.
-> Move steam into second place!

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Next the oil and barrel recipes. Right now it looks like this:

oil and barreling old.jpg (38.24 KiB) Viewed 1548 times

Not only does the order of the barrels make no sense it is not even consistent with the current fluid order.
-> Water first, lubricant last!
The oil recipes are a bit more complicated and most of it is fine already. But why is sulfuric acid first?!
-> Move sulfuric acid behind solid fuel.
And while we are talking about solid fuel.
-> Solid fuel from heavy oil should be first.

oil and barreling new.jpg (24.46 KiB) Viewed 1548 times

[Impatient]

Have a look at the base mods prototype definitions. For the recipies you will find the order string defined that reads something like "A-H-b2" and the category property that defines to what tab the recipe goes. Search for "factorio mod recipe order".

eg viewtopic.php?t=60096

[Impatient]

And you can override those properties of the recipes in the base mod in your mods data stage.

[ickputzdirwech]

Have a look at the base mods prototype definitions.

I think you misunderstood me. I know how to change the order and as stated above I did it already in a mod I made for personal use (otherwise I couldn’t have made the screenshots). I am considering making it public but I am still working ob some other features.

Since I think this is a consistency issue (I even thought about making a bug report ) I would like it getting implemented in vanilla, even if I fixed it for myself already.

[Impatient]

oh yes. sorry. I misunderstood that.

[Xystem4]

Wow, I'm surprised I'd never noticed these. I guess I don't use barrels or fluid signals very often.

The most noticable in normal gameplay I'd say is definitely the sulfuric acid being at the top left. Especially since sulfuric acid isn't unlocked until after basic oil processing, which means a crafting icon is added to the left of an existing icon, which typically doesn't happen (except for some odd miscellaneous items in the logistics tab, and even then that mostly only happens if you research in a strange order, like saving lights to the very end for some reason).

I would also point out that it's strange that basic uranium processing is up next to explosives, rather than near the other uranium based recipes near the bottom. I would expect it to be directly next to Kovarex, or fuel cells.

[Optera]

+1
Please fix in base. Now my I can't unsee the sorting and it triggers my OCD.