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TL;DR

Additional, user-customizeable Blueprint tabs in the main library.

What?

As topic+tldr implies. More user-customizable tabs in the blueprint library. The normal 'Game' tab should still be present and operate as it currently does. Just give players the ability to create their own local-storage only tabs, as the current one behaves.

Why?

With various mod sets, blueprint sources,etc. I'd like to be able to have multiple tabs to sort blueprints in. Putting books in books 'works', but then its just books in books in books(.. books all the way down) which gets messy and hard to find what I'm looking for. Being able to make additional tabs, (such as 'community' as a place I can put things I've found online from people who have shared them) would serve being able to better sort/store the collections players have.

I often found myself going back and forth between a SpaceExploration, a vanilla and a vanilla+ install to find blueprints I had previously created or thought I had saved. Being able to symlink and have all my blueprints from all games (each with their own tabs) would have been amazing and such a time saver.

+1 for the ability to symlink blueprint books. Or maybe add some kind of searching system that searches through the descriptions so that we can add tags. Tag-based file systems are superior to tree-based filesystems imo.

I don't think custom tabs are necessary as you can use books for the same thing - I have a single book with almost all my blueprints, so that I can easily export them the next time I need to recover them.