Forward crafting reference

[Peter34]

Factorio already has excellent backward crafting refernece in its interface. If I examine an item, in-game, them the game tells me which subcomponents are required to craft said item.

So far, so good.

But I'd like to have an in-game way of also seeing the reverse, at least upon active player request, e.g. when the player pressed a particular key while in the inventory interface: A way to see what further products each item can be used to make. For instance, it took me a long while to really get a formal understanding of how few things Copper Plate and Plastic are actually used for. I assumed that both were widely useful as-is, whereas in fact each is only involved in the direct manufacturing of about a dozen items, including several obscure ones. The main use of Copper Plate is to make Copper Wire, and the main use of Plastic is to make Red Circuits. Apart from those ones each, they're used for almost nothing.

I know there are plenty of out-of-game references, including the wiki, but having it in-game and automated would be a huge boon for players using mods that add or change crafting recipes. Also, the text of the wiki often implies that its content might be incomplete, and even if that is rarely the case, the wiki is likely to contain incomplete for a period of time after the release of a new major revision, e.g. alpha 12 and later alpha 13,.

[KaptainKushX]

Made an account just to necro this post. Why doesn't this have more attention? Ive grown away from minecraft for this game, but i still yearn for Minecraft's NEI mod, forward and backward recipes for every item. Even if you had to research it, it seems like an amazing idea. Altho i feel the point of the game is kind of figuring it out/researching (including using google/reddit lol)

[wobbycarly]

Made an account just to necro this post. Why doesn't this have more attention? Ive grown away from minecraft for this game, but i still yearn for Minecraft's NEI mod, forward and backward recipes for every item. Even if you had to research it, it seems like an amazing idea. Altho i feel the point of the game is kind of figuring it out/researching (including using google/reddit lol)

If you're OK with loading mods, there's FNEI which does the same. Not sure if it has been - or even needs to be - updated for V2.0.

[Muche]

I think this topic could be moved to implemented, as Factoriopedia lists all recipes an item is used in.

[Koub]

[Koub] Indeed, moved to Implemetned.