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threephi wrote:It would be great if there were a fast way to set the deconstruction planner to ignore trees, as there is when selecting "trees only" when you want to deforest an area.

+1. It's nice to be able to leave as many trees up as possible when placing a mining outpost blueprint. Cleaning up afterwards is a pain though.

TL;DR

Make it an option to add items to the deconstruction planners filters additionally to all trees and rocks

What ?

Currently (16.51) the deconstruction planner has a checkbox to mark all trees and rocks. It would be cool to be able to add additional filters to the black-/whitelist while selecting trees and rocks with one (or two) clicks.

Why ?

When I relocate a part of the factory or deconstruct outposts, I let the robots deconstruct all but electrical posts, roboports and trees/rocks, in order for the robots to have enought time to clear everything out, before their roboports get removed. Then, in a second pass, I order the removal of the remaining entities. Setting this filter is cumbersome, as there are way too many types of trees/stones.

I suggest moving this topic in implemented. There are lots of different ideas in it and most of the stuff is already implemented. Everything else is covered by either of these three topics: 68629, 91389 and 97630.