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If you're not holding any of a building and pipette a ghost, it shows red squares over the ghost that you just pipetted from, but if you copy that same ghost, it shows up as blue when trying to place on top of that ghost. These two behaviors should be the same.

That might be intended.

When you pipette, you're building a new machine with default settings. When you copy, you're building a machine with the same settings as the one you copied from.