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tl:dr

Adding a ctrl-right click and drag to split current item stack evenly between buildings selected by drag box

What

Currently you can ctrl-right click to drop half your curent stack into a building. This is cool for spreading a resource around among a few buildings, however can lead to very uneven distributions because it uses half the stack remaining where say youre holding 100 coal and your trying to fill your burner drills, inserters and smelters. The first few get almost all the fuel and the last few get 1 or two each.

My suggestion is to drag a box with ctrl-right click and it would see “hey there are 4 things within arms reach that take the current item, i got a stack of 100 so they all get 25.” Rather than the first getting 50, then 25 then 12, then 6, then back over the first so 56......

Why

Just a simple interface addition to make things smoother and more intuitive. As a side note it could extend to ctrl-left clicking as well to block pickup from a set of buildings

https://mods.factorio.com/mods/321fredd ... stribution

Though i agree that this should be in vanilla. The built-in mechanism rarely makes sense.

What I miss is rather the possibility to manually enter a number.

For example, if I have a row of gun turrets and I want to give each gun turret exactly 20 ammo, then I want to be able to manually enter the number 20 and afterwards click all turrets. The number should not change back again after every click.

When you have a specific number of items in hand then ctrl-inserting should insert that many but keep the same number of items in your hand instead of a full stack.

Caine wrote:When you have a specific number of items in hand then ctrl-inserting should insert that many but keep the same number of items in your hand instead of a full stack.

So totally this ! Me want that in vanilla.

Koub wrote:

Caine wrote:When you have a specific number of items in hand then ctrl-inserting should insert that many but keep the same number of items in your hand instead of a full stack.

So totally this ! Me want that in vanilla.

Thirded.

As a thought then if they implement the inserting the currently held stack size idea, have it to where if your holding an item, you can increase or decrease the ammount of them in your hand using the scroll wheel

JWoodrell wrote:As a thought then if they implement the inserting the currently held stack size idea, have it to where if your holding an item, you can increase or decrease the ammount of them in your hand using the scroll wheel

... or with your keyboard, by entering a number.