Quickswitch hotkey for items in group.

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Gammro
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Quickswitch hotkey for items in group.

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After playing satisfactory right before 2.0 released I've come to realize I sorely miss this feature in Factorio:
The ability to select an item from the hotbar, and either holding or pressing a button to switch to another item within the group. So for example:
- You have a blue inserter on the hotbar. By putting it in the cursor and pressing $hotkey$ switches over to a green inserter. Pressing it another time loops back around to yellow inserters.
- You hold a yellow belt in the cursor, by holding $hotkey$ a wheel/selection pops up and we can select all (unlocked) types of belt components: Red belts, yellow underground, blue splitters etc.
- Maybe to go above and beyond we can even create custom groupings?(though this might just fill the same niche as the 10 available hotbars)

This might make choosing the right tool for the job a bit quicker without having to switch between toolbars a lot.

I have been pointed towards Raiguard's Cursor enhancements mod to implement something like it but I really would like this to be in vanilla as well.

2 examples from Satisfactory:
Quick switch 1
Quick switch 1
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Quick switch 2
Quick switch 2
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Re: Quickswitch hotkey for items in group.

Post by Madman666 »

I second this request. It would be incredibly useful to be able to cycle through item tiers easily with mouse wheel, seeing as we got another belt tier this update and mods often add a bunch more too. Pretty please.
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Re: Quickswitch hotkey for items in group.

Post by BlueTemplar »

Yeah. And we already even have them pre-defined to be used with the already existing Upgrade planner !

Note that this already exists for quality : Shift + Alt + scrollwheel
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