Make “Show unresearched” filter “Made in” tooltips in Crafting and Select recipe

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Make “Show unresearched” filter “Made in” tooltips in Crafting and Select recipe

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TL;DR
Make Factoriopedia's “Show unresearched” setting also filter the “Made in” section of recipe tooltips in the Crafting and Select recipe interfaces.
What?
When “Show unresearched” is disabled in Factoriopedia, recipe tooltips should only show crafting machines currently available to the player's force.

This should apply to both relevant interfaces:
  • Crafting — the character crafting interface. For recipes that cannot be crafted by hand, such as Plastic bar, hovering the recipe shows a “Made in” list which includes Cryogenic plant.
  • Select recipe — the recipe-selection interface of assembling machines. Hovering any recipe there also shows a “Made in” list.
For example, in a early vanilla Space Age game, hovering Plastic bar in the Crafting interface shows both Chemical plant and Cryogenic plant:
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The Cryogenic plant is not researched, cannot be crafted, and is unavailable until much later in the game.

Factoriopedia already correctly hides the Cryogenic plant when “Show unresearched” is disabled:
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The requested behaviour is either:
  • make the Factoriopedia “Show unresearched” toggle apply to “Made in” lists in Crafting and Select recipe; or
  • add an equivalent separate toggle for recipe tooltips.
Why?
The current “Made in” tooltip answers “which prototypes technically support this recipe”, rather than “which machines can I currently use”.

In vanilla Space Age this reveals future machines such as the Cryogenic plant. In large modpacks, the lists can contain dozens of unavailable assemblers and specialised buildings, pushing the useful available options out of view.
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Factoriopedia already has the appropriate player-facing filter. Applying it consistently to the “Made in” lists in Crafting and Select recipe would reduce clutter and make recipe information much easier to use, while preserving an option to view every technically valid machine.
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