Inserters improvements for easily confused

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Inserters improvements for easily confused

Post by gmit »

TL;DR

1. Preselect an item type when a wire is connected to the inserter.

2. Make a better selection of item types to be filtered.


What?

1. After an inserter is connected to the circuit, in Factorio 1.0 inserter was blocked by default and I had time to slowly setup the on/off condition. In 2.0 that is not the case anymore, so I need to react quickly, I open the dialog and then I need to select the item type, but since there is so much to select from, the stress level is high and I forget the item type I need to put into the condition. To make this worse, the inserter is usually in the center of the screen, so the window where the condition is set up is blocking the belt, so I cannot see and remind myself about the item type I need to set.

I would like the condition item type to be initially set to the last item type moved by the inserter. Since the condition is initially disabled, I see no harm in doing so, but I would cover maybe 90% of my cases with this.


2. In the same window, when I select the filter item, I get the item type selection dialog that was bad in 1.0, but now is just terrible as it lists too many item types, many of which I haven't yet researched or don't use anymore.

I would like to have a new tab that will contain item types seen on both sides of an inserter. I'm not asking that, but you could go wild and go through the connected belt all the way and list everything on. You could put there pinned item types as well, but I'm not asking for that either.


Why?

Because I get easily blocked while being confused.
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