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Currently shortcuts either have the spawned item's description or nothing at all, it would be nice if you could add a description for lua shortcuts and such.

You can give your shortcut a description by assigning the description to your shortcut via "localised_name".

Isn't that just the name? i am referring to what comes after the horizontal line under it.

No, this is the text that is displayed as a tooltip when you hover over the shortcut icon in the shortcut bar. Do you mean something else?

You can currently only set the name, the description is only there when the shortcut spawns an item, otherwise it is always blank:

OK. Then I misunderstood you.

+1

Specifically I'd like to be able to alter the description of the Spidertron Remote shortcut. Currently it is hardcoded, and I can sort of override it by re-defining the locale key of one of the bullet points but
a) that looks a bit weird as I can only alter text of existing bullet points, not add more
b) I can't do that dynamically depending on mod settings, existence of other mods, etc, which I would like to be able to do (so I need `localised_description`)

+1