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Is it possible to have some kind of easy way to select recipe ingredients for an item you want to build? For example if I want a requester chest to request ingredients for an Oil Refinery, I am currently looking up the recipe for Oil Refinery and having to enter each ingredient manually (green circuit, iron gear, pipe, steel, stone brick). It would be a lot easier to have a hotkey so that if you press hotkey + select Oil Refinery whilst in the request menu, then the recipe ingredients are instead requested instead of the item selected

Shift+right click on crafting machine with recipe you need, then shift+left click on requester chest.

Do note that for some recipes it makes the chest request reasonable quantities of items.
For some it doesn't. So it's worth double-checking at least in early game. As this behaviour exists since at least v1.1 - it's probably not a bug.

This is exactly what I was looking for - thanks