Non-alt-mode visual indicator of assembler product

[foamy]

This is pretty simple conceptually: Right now, assemblers outside of alt-mode are black boxes. You have to observe the output stream in order to figure out what a given one is working on, which is a pain.

On the other hand, chemical plants currently show, via a window and their smoke colour, what kind of chemical product they're working on. I'd like to see something of that nature added to assemblers. A window showing an internal conveyor belt perhaps? So that even in normal mode, which is what new players see first anyway, there's a clear indicator of what's going on.

Furnaces would be nice too, but OTOH furnaces already have some neat visual features with the glows and have a much smaller range of outputs, so they're less important.

[valneq]

+1

There were several hints from the developers saying they are working on new graphics for assembling machines. I hope they will address this issue with the new assembler graphics.