[2.0.32] Can't find artillery turret through remote view search on Gleba

[Kalixt]

Hello,
we have this insane feature, where you have search in remote view and it highlights items for you on map. I was trying to find where is my artillery turrets placed on Gleba but it found 0, even tho I saw there has to be some because of large turret range on map. Tried the same thing on Vulcanus, it worked. Does it work only for planet specific items ?

[Kyralessa]

I don't think those are on the list of searchable items:

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-400

We were not sure about what exactly should be searchable, so we just started from the most obvious, the production search.

Other searchable stuff

After the production search, we added a few things that we found useful after playtesting:

• Map tags, which merge into one group when they are on top of assemblers of the same thing.
• Train stops, which are forced to be at the end of the list, as in some cases there tends to be A LOT of them.

We could consider to add more to the search, like the locations of logistic chests containing some item, but we decided to not go down this rabbit hole for now. Mainly because it would naturally lead to the need of making all items in containers searchable, and it would become a performance nightmare, not even talking about the possible huge spam of the search results.

Of course, there might be some good ideas of other things we could make searchable, you can let us know!

So this is probably not a bug, but rather a feature request.

Of course, if you have train stops near those turrets, those you can search for.

[Kalixt]

I don't think those are on the list of searchable items:

So each planet has its own searchable list of items and Artillery turret is not part of that list on Gleba. Otherwise its bug.

[Loewchen]

I don't think those are on the list of searchable items:

So each planet has its own searchable list of items and Artillery turret is not part of that list on Gleba. Otherwise its bug.

No entities (which I assume is what you are actually looking for instead of items) are searchable for me in general. What I can search for are recipes.

If you are able to find artillery turret entities in the map search on any planet post such a save file.

[Kyralessa]

I don't think those are on the list of searchable items:

So each planet has its own searchable list of items and Artillery turret is not part of that list on Gleba. Otherwise its bug.

One additional category is resource search, covered here:

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-426

Resources are searchable on any planet, but of course not every planet has the same resources.

On Gleba, soil is searchable, which could be for one of two reasons: Because it's considered a resource, or because it falls under "production search" because you need certain types of soil to produce yumako and jellynut.

A turret isn't a resource, a production building, a train stop, or a map tag.

But there's nothing wrong with making a feature request that search can find turrets.

[Kalixt]

Yes it was a recipe, I had to overlook it. Sorry.