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You can achieve almost the same thing (arguably faster, with hotbar keyboard shortucts), using HotCraft :
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/HotCraft

Directly handcraft items from your inventory or toolbelt by hotkey, without even browsing the recipes list: just grab a stack in your hand and use ALT-1, ALT-2 or ALT-3 to queue 1,5 or 10 more items for handcrafting.

TL;DR/What

It should be possible to quickly craft items on the toolbar, including by pack of 5.

Why ?

I don't know for PC players, but on switch things quickly get clunky:

- Go to shortcut menu to quickly check how much of an item you have
- Go to inventory menu, navigate to the right tab then to the right item and craft
- Now go back to the shortcut menu again to select it

We can't point and click, so navigating through all these menus is tedious. It would be much more pleasant to just go to the shortcut panel, that conveniently shows how much items are left, and craft them when needed with ZR+A, or pack of five with ZR+Y.

Just to be clear, this isn't a switch-only suggestion. The same feature would probably be appreciated by PC-players. But I think it would be a life changer on Switch.

TL;DR

Craft items by clicking on them in the quickbar.

What?

Simply click (or whatever keybind you have set for crafting) an item in the quickbar to craft it, just as you would when clicking a recipe in the inventory. This would admittedly require removing the ability to select items in the quickbar by clicking with the mouse, since it would conflict with the craft item keypress. Do people use that method to select items in the quickbar often?

An alternative would be a keypress to craft the (ghost) item you have in hand. Though obviously then you can't use the default keys (because clicking with an item/ghost in hand would just place it), so we'd need a separate keybind (or even set of keybinds, if you want to allow crafting multiple items with a single keypress) for crafting in this way, which seems a bit inelegant.

Why?

Since quickbar items are used often, it'd make sense if the quickbar could also be used to craft them without having to open the inventory screen.
I'm maybe a little concerned that this would be *so* convenient that new players don't learn the importance of automating crafting... but that doesn't seem super likely?